They build their homes with as much care and skill as House People use in making theirs.

Then they work hard, very hard indeed, to collect food to feed their children, for bird children are, oh, so hungry! They grow very quickly, and must eat constantly from morning until night.
"With them it is breakfast, luncheon, dinner, five-o'clock tea, and supper, with a great many other meals between times that would not be wholesome for House Children.

So you can see for yourselves that we may well call the bird a fellow-being." "Yes," said Rap, his eyes beaming as if he had something to tell, "some birds work as hard as mother does.

I watched a pair of Robins all one day last spring, when I was sick.

They had a nest in a bush by our kitchen window, where I could see it well, and all day long either the mother or the father came about every two minutes with something for the little ones to eat.