THE BATTLE OF THE PARTRIDGE EGGS

Once upon a time there lived about half a mile from a forrest a
farmer and his wife and his sons and daughters and a
granddaughter. The farmer and his wife loved this little girl
very much but she caused them great trouble by running away into
the woods and they often spent haf days looking for her. One day
she wondered further into the forrest than usual and she begun to
be hungry. Then night closed in. She asked a fox where she could
get something to eat. The fox told her he knew where there was a
partridges nest and a bluejays nest full of eggs. So he led her
to the nests and she took five eggs out of each. When the birds
came home they missed the eggs and flew into a rage. The bluejay
put on his topcoat and was going to the partridge for law when he
met the partridge coming to him. They lit up a fire and commenced
sining their deeds when they heard a tremendous howl close behind
them. They jumped up and put out the fire and were immejutly
attacked by five great wolves. The next day the little girl was
rambelling through the woods when they saw her and took her
prisoner. After she had confessed that she had stole the eggs
they told her to raise an army. They would have to fight over the
nests of eggs and whoever one would have the eggs. So the
partridge raised a great army of all kinds of birds except robins
and the little girl got all the robins and foxes and bees and
wasps. And best of all the little girl had a gun and plenty of
ammunishun. The leader of her army was a wolf. The result of the
battle was that all the birds were killed except the partridge and
the bluejay and they were taken prisoner and starved to death.

The little girl was then taken prisoner by a witch and cast into a