. Stories about birds, with pictures to match . no one knew where he was thought that he had returned to thewoods. Almost every day, however, after theowl went away, some hen or chicken wasmissing, also. A score or more of hens andchickens disappeared from the could be the author of the mischief? wasa question which every member of the familyasked, but which none could satisfactorilyanswer. The fox, the minx, the weasel, wereall suspected. One morning, the mystery wassolved. The lady of the house rose earlierthan usual. It was washing day, I to go to the
. Stories about birds, with pictures to match . no one knew where he was thought that he had returned to thewoods. Almost every day, however, after theowl went away, some hen or chicken wasmissing, also. A score or more of hens andchickens disappeared from the could be the author of the mischief? wasa question which every member of the familyasked, but which none could satisfactorilyanswer. The fox, the minx, the weasel, wereall suspected. One morning, the mystery wassolved. The lady of the house rose earlierthan usual. It was washing day, I to go to the well for water, shespied her old friend, the owl, making hisbreakfast on one of the finest of her chickens. 192 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. The thief instantly ran to his hole under thehouse. But the lady followed him, and soonused the broom-stick so thoroughly about hishead, that lie had no longer any power to killchickens. In his snug retreat were found thegreater part of the feathers, and many largefragments of the bones of a small army
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