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

, the mountains and the meadows, he made the fishes, and then the four-footed kindreds. Last of all, he cr

, the other birds went to her and off

ground where no one will find it. You must just push up some of the dry leave

or some other creature would step on me. If you want a safe nest, I'll show you how to build one. You just find a de

ang your nest on the end of an elm branch. You just weave together some hair and grass and moss and hang it on a slender, swinging branch

hour. A good hole in a sandbank suits me much better. To be sure, the sand sometime

ge for a foundation with another one above for a roof. The rock never caves in on you. A little hair and grass, nice

ave together some twigs and grass and plaster the inside with some good thick mud, and you have a serviceable nest, good enough for

s praised its own nest and offered to sh

olite enough to pretend to pay attention. She was too conceited. tho

e ugly old thing! It can't be tha

are, the wiser they think themselves. And it's always

never thought her handsome in the least. You know she follows t

ts, "she thought she knew a grea

d I am very much obliged to you. But I think I can get along without your h

r birds. 'You must have learned very

'nobody taught me, but I

kind and help you. But we won't bother you any more. Good-

he sandbank, but the sand caved in and got in her eyes and almost smothered her. Then she tried the other kinds of nests. But every one was