"Cheerup chee-chee, cheerup chee-chee! thank you, thank you," cried the Robins.
"Ter-ra-lee, ter-ra-lee, ter-ra-lee! thank you, thank you!" twittered Snow Bunting.
"Chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee, chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee,
chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee! how kind you are!" sang the Chickadees.
And Thistle Goldfinch? Yes, he remembered his summer song, for he sang as they flew away:
"Swee-e-et-sweet-sweet-sweet-a-twitter-witter-witter-witter--wee-twea!"
notes.--l. The Robin's song is from "Bird Talks," by Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney.
2. The fact upon which this story is based--that is of the other birds adopting and warming the solitary Thistle Goldfinch--was observed near Northampton, Mass., where robins and other migratory birds sometimes spend the winter in the thick pine woods.
THE LITTLE SISTER'S
