It's all nonsense the fuss folks make about robins, and a lot of other birds, as far as that goes--damned sentiment.

Year before last I hadn't a bushel of grapes on my vines because the robins stole them, and not a half-bushel of pears on that big seckel-pear-tree.

If they'd eaten them up clean I wouldn't have felt so bad, but there the ground would be covered with pears rotted on account of one little peck.

They are enough sight better to be on women's bonnets than eating up folks' substance, though I don't promulgate that doctrine abroad.

And one thing I ain't afraid to say: big fat robins ought to be made some use of.