All the crumbs I saved for you.
Don't be frightened--here's a treat:
I will wait and see you eat.

3. Shocking tales I hear of you;
Chirp, and tell me, are they true?
Robbing all the summer long;
Don't you think it very wrong?

4. Thomas says you steal his wheat;
John complains, his plums you eat--
Choose the ripest for your share,
Never asking whose they are.

5. But I will not try to know
What you did so long ago:
There's your breakfast, eat away;
Come to see me every day.



LESSON XXVIII.

aft'er noon sup'per deep length car'riage threw
hedge stood tru'ly road few sad

[Illustration: Woman and boy riding in carriage pulled by horse.
Man in foreground holding gate open for carriage.]