. The adventures of Bob White. /I . i l.^^« •^ He counted the number of butterfliesMrs. Bob caught BOB WHITEsame thing with another of the BobWhites who was catching cucumberbeetles, and with another who washunting grasshoppers. Then he didsome more figuring on that bit o£paper. When he had finished he gotup and went straight down to thecornfield where Farmer Brown wasat work. I know now what you meantwhen you used to tell me thatfigures talk, said he. Why, theyvetold me more than I ever dreamed!Theyve told me that the BobWhites are the best friends wevegot, and that the reason that weve got t
. The adventures of Bob White. /I . i l.^^« •^ He counted the number of butterfliesMrs. Bob caught BOB WHITEsame thing with another of the BobWhites who was catching cucumberbeetles, and with another who washunting grasshoppers. Then he didsome more figuring on that bit o£paper. When he had finished he gotup and went straight down to thecornfield where Farmer Brown wasat work. I know now what you meantwhen you used to tell me thatfigures talk, said he. Why, theyvetold me more than I ever dreamed!Theyve told me that the BobWhites are the best friends wevegot, and that the reason that weve got the best garden anywhere [120] A LITTLE LESSON IN ARITHMETIC around is just because they havemade it so. Why, those little brownbirds are actually making money forus, and we never guessed it!. ? \. [I2T] XV Farmer Browns BoyGrows Indignant To be indignant is to be angryin a good cause. I£ you lose yourtemper and give way to anger be-cause things do not suit you, you arenot indignant; you are simply if anger wells up in your heartbecause of harm or injustice whichis done to someone else, or even [122] FARMERS BOY INDIGNANT to yourself, then you becomeindignant. Farmer Browns boy had spent allhis spare time down in the gardenwatching Bob White and his fact, he had been there so muchthat all the Bob Whites had cometo look on him as harmless if notactually a friend. They just didntpay him any attention at all, butwent about their business as if hewere nowhere about. And theirbusiness was ridding that garden ofbugs and worms and seeds of weedsin order to fill their stomachs. Whattickled Farmer Browns boy was thatthe bugs and worms of which they BOB WHITE seemed the most fond were the veryones which did the most harm to thegrowing plants. Over beyond the ga
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