They should have asked us if we were willing for them to come.

Bird People are of a _much_ older race than House People anyway; it says so in their books, for I heard Rap, the lame boy down by the mill, reading about it one day when he was sitting by the river." All the other birds laughed merrily at this, and the Martin said, "Don't be greedy, Brother Barney; those people are quite welcome to their barns and houses, if they will only let us build in their trees.

Bird People own the whole sky and some of our race dive in the sea and swim in the rivers where no House People can follow us." "You may say what you please," chattered poor unhappy Barney, "everything is awry.

The Wrens always built behind the window-blinds, and now these blinds are flung wide open.

The Song Sparrow nested in the long grass under the lilac bushes, but now it is all cut short; and they have trimmed away the nice mossy branches in the orchard where hundreds of the brothers built.