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[Feinblatt F. <rep...@ap...>]

Dren of sunny France,

from whom I got the tale for you.
So now you know why the Blackbird looks
so solemn and so sulky in his suit of rusty black; and why his nerves
are so weak

that if one suddenly surprises

him, picking up seeds in the field, he gives a terrible scream of
fright. For he
thinks one is that dreadful dragon-creature who chased him and so nearly
gobbled him on that unlucky day, long ago. Poor Brother

Blackbird! Don't let him know I told you all this; it would make him so
very much ashamed.

THE BLACKBIRD AND THE FOX One day Madame Fox, who was strolling along
under the hedge,

heard a Blackbird trilling on a branch. Quick as thought she jumped and
seized the little fellow, and was about to gobble him down then and
there. But the Blackbird began to chirp piteously:-- "Oh,
oh, Madame Fox! What are you thinking of? Just see, I am such a tiny
mouthful! And when I am gone--I am gone. Only let me free and I will
tell you something. Look! Here come some peasant women
with eggs and cheese which they are carrying to the market at Verrieres.
That would be a meal worth having! Only let me go, and

I will help you, Master Fox." The Fox saw that this might be a good plan
which the bird proposed, so she let him go. And what do you think the
Blackbird did? He began to hop, hop,
hop toward the women, dragging
his wing behi