The Magic Speech Flower / or Little Luke and His Animal Friends

reen back, a bright yellow breast, and a black mask across his face that made him look like a highwayman. Though he w

and call out, "Which way, sir? Which way, sir?" And when the little

Nick-uts. To be sure, Mrs. Nick-uts never had much to say. She was a quiet little body, not so

going for the cows, he saw Nick-

when he saw the little boy; "I want som

ked in. "Look there," said Nick-uts, "see

le Luke. "Why should I d

home. She's always sneaking around, the lazy old thing, to lay her eggs in some other bird's nest. She's cowardly t

myself, and if you don't take it out, we shall have to

nd threw it on the ground. "Why don't Moth

old days she had a chance to learn the same as the rest of us. She wo

if it were their own. The young Mo-los are greedy things and they eat up everything away from the other little birds. Besides, they grow so fast that they crowd out the other youn

ed to roll the egg out, and once we built a second floor

hance to learn to build a nest," sa

me, I'll try. I haven't heard the story for a long while, per