But the birds get through the winter, don't they ?" "Some of them fall dead on the ground." "They must die some time.

They wouldn't like to be birds always.

Would you, mother ?" "What a child it is!" thought his mother, but she said nothing.
"Oh! now I remember," Diamond went on.

"Father told me that day I went to Epping Forest with him, that the rose-bushes, and the may-bushes, and the holly-bushes were the bird's barns, for there were the hips, and the haws, and the holly-berries, all ready for the winter." "Yes; that's all very true.

So you see the birds are provided for.