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And, a little later, they came to a bush in which was a robin's nest.
In it were some tiny birds, and, by standing on their tiptoes, and
bending the nest down a little way, the Curlytops could look in. The
baby birds, which had only just begun to grow feathers, opened their
mouths as wide as they could, thinking, I suppose, that Jan and Ted
had worms or bugs for them.
But the children did not have.
"Your mother will soon be along to feed you," said Janet, and soon the
mother bird did come flying back from the field. She seemed afraid at
first, when she saw how close Jan and Ted were to her nest, but the
children soon walked away, and then the robin fed her young.
Ted and Jan had a nice walk through the woods and then they went back
to camp.
"We'll take Trouble for a walk, so mother won't have to look after him
so much," said Janet. "Come, Trouble!"
"Show me where the fox was," begged Baby William, and Ted and Jan
turned their steps that way. But there was no sign of the big-tailed
animal in the hollow log, though the children pounded on it as Grandpa
Martin said he had done.
Then they wandered on a little farther in the beautiful woods. Jan saw
some flowers she wanted to gather, and leaving the path where Ted
stood to take care of his little brother, she began picking a handful.
Janet saw so many pretty blossoms that she went a little farther than
she meant to, and, before she knew it, she had lost sight of her two
brothers, though she could hear them talking.
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