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<h1>THE TALE OF JOLLY ROBIN</h1>
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<i>TUCK-ME-IN TALES</i><br/>
<span style='font-size:smaller; margin-bottom:.5em;'>(Trademark Registered)</span><br/>
<span class="smcap">by</span><br/>
ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY<br/>
<span class="smcap">author of</span><br/>
SLEEPY-TIME TALES<br/>
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The Tale of Jolly Robin<br/>
The Tale of Old Mr. Crow<br/>
The Tale of Solomon Owl<br/>
The Tale of Jasper Jay<br/>
The Tale of Rusty Wren<br/>
The Tale of Daddy Longlegs<br/>
The Tale of Kiddie Katydid<br/>
The Tale of Buster Bumblebee<br/>
The Tale of Freddy Firefly<br/>
The Tale of Betsy Butterfly<br/>
The Tale of Bobby Bobolink<br/>
The Tale or Chirpy Cricket<br/>
The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug<br/>
The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker<br/>
The Tale of Grandmother Goose</span>
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Jolly Robin Asks Jasper Jay About The Sign<br/>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;text-decoration:underline"><br/><i>TUCK-ME-IN TALES</i></span><br/><br/>
<span style="font-size: 200%;">THE TALE OF</span><br/>
<span style="font-size: 200%;">JOLLY ROBIN</span><br/><br/><br/>
<span style="font-size: 80%;">BY</span><br/>
<span style="font-size: 100%;">ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY</span><br/><br/>
<span style="font-size: 80%;">Author of</span><br/>
<span style="font-size: 100%;">“SLEEPY-TIME TALES”</span><br/><br/><br/>
<span style="font-size: 80%;">(Trademark Registered)</span><br/><br/><br/>
<span style="font-size: 80%;">ILLUSTRATED BY</span><br/>
<span style="font-size: 100%;">HARRY L. SMITH</span><br/><br/><br/>
<span style="font-size: 80%;">NEW YORK</span><br/>
<span style="font-size: 100%;">GROSSET & DUNLAP</span><br/>
<span style="font-size: 80%;">PUBLISHERS</span><br/><br/><br/>
<span style="font-size: 80%;">Made in the United States of America</span><br/><br/>
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<p style='text-align:center'>Copyright, 1917, by<br/>
GROSSET & DUNLAP</p>
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<h2>TABLE OF CONTENTS</h2>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>I</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>Nestlings </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#I_NESTLINGS'>1</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>II</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>Learning to Fly </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#II_LEARNING_TO_FLY'>6</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>III</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>The Wide, Wide World </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#III_THE_WIDE_WIDE_WORLD'>11</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>IV</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>What Jolly Did Best </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#IV_WHAT_JOLLY_DID_BEST'>16</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>V</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>Laughing for Mr. Crow </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#V_LAUGHING_FOR_MR_CROW'>21</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>VI</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>Tickling a Nose </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#VI_TICKLING_A_NOSE'>26</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>VII</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>A New Way to Travel </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#VII_A_NEW_WAY_TO_TRAVEL'>33</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>VIII</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>Jolly is Left Behind </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#VIII_JOLLY_IS_LEFT_BEHIND'>38</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>IX</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>Jolly’s Mistake </td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>X</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>The White Giant </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#X_THE_WHITE_GIANT'>48</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>XI</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>What a Snowball Did </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#XI_WHAT_A_SNOWBALL_DID'>53</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>XII</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>Jolly Feels Better </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#XII_JOLLY_FEELS_BETTER'>57</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>XIII</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>The Hermit </td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>XIV</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>One or Two Blunders </td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>XV</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>Lost—A Cousin! </td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>XVI</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>Jealous Jasper Jay </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#XVI_JEALOUS_JASPER_JAY'>80</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>XVII</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>Only a Rooster </td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>XVIII</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>On Top of the Barn </td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>XIX</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>Curious Mr. Crow </td>
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<td valign='top' align='left'>The Four-Armed Man </td>
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<td valign='top' align='left'>A Doleful Ditty </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#XXI_A_DOLEFUL_DITTY'>107</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>XXII</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>Shocking Manners </td>
<td valign='bottom' align='right'><SPAN href='#XXII_SHOCKING_MANNERS'>112</SPAN></td>
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<td valign='top' align='right' style='padding-right:1em;'>XXIII</td>
<td valign='top' align='left'>A Cold Greeting </td>
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<div><span class='pagenum pncolor'><SPAN name='page_1' name='page_1'></SPAN>1</span></div>
<h1>THE TALE OF JOLLY ROBIN</h1>
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<p>Of course, there was a time, once, when
Jolly Robin was just a nestling himself.
With two brothers and one sister—all of
them, like him, much spotted with black—he
lived in a house in one of Farmer
Green’s apple trees.</p>
<p>The house was made of grass and leaves,
plastered on the inside with mud, and
lined with softer, finer grass, which his
mother had chosen with the greatest care.</p>
<p>But Jolly never paid much attention to
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his first home. What interested him more
than anything else was food. From dawn
till dark, he was always <i>cheeping</i> for something
to eat. And since the other children
were just as hungry as he was, those four
growing babies kept their parents busy
finding food for them. It was then that
Jolly Robin learned to like angleworms.
And though he ate greedily of insects and
bugs, as well as wild berries, he liked
angleworms best.</p>
<p>Jolly and his sister and his brothers
could always tell when their father or their
mother brought home some dainty, because
the moment the parent lighted upon
the limb where the nest was built they
could feel their home sink slightly, from
the added weight upon the branch.</p>
<p>Then the youngsters would set up a loud
squalling, with a great craning of necks
and stretching of orange-colored mouths.
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<p>Sometimes, when the dainty was specially
big, Mr. or Mrs. Robin would say,
“<i>Cuck! cuck!</i>” That meant “Open
wide!” But they seldom found it necessary
to give that order.</p>
<p>Somehow, Jolly Robin managed to eat
more than the rest of the nestlings. And
so he grew faster than the others. He
soon learned a few tricks, too. For instance,
if Mrs. Robin happened to be sitting
on the nest, to keep her family warm,
when Mr. Robin returned with a lunch for
the children, Jolly had a trick that he
played on his mother, in case she didn’t
move off the nest fast enough to suit him.</p>
<p>He would whisper to the rest of the children.
And then they would jostle their
fond parent, lifting her up above them,
and sometimes almost upsetting her, so
that she had hard work to keep from falling
off the nest.
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<p>Mrs. Robin did not like that trick very
well. But she knew that Jolly would not
annoy her with it long. Indeed, he was
only eleven days old when he left his
birthplace and went out into the wide
world.</p>
<p>You see, the young folk grew so fast
that they soon more than filled the house.
So there was nothing their parents could
do but persuade them to leave home and
learn to fly.</p>
<p>One day, therefore, Mr. Robin did not
bring his children’s food to the edge of the
nest and drop it into their mouths. Instead,
he stood on the limb a little distance
away from them and showed them a
plump angleworm.</p>
<p>The sight of that dainty was more than
Jolly Robin could resist. He scrambled
boldly out of the nest; and tottering up to
his father on his wobbling legs, he
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snatched the tempting morsel out of his
proud parent’s bill.</p>
<p>Jolly never went back to the nest after
that. The next day Mrs. Robin coaxed the
other children from home in the same
fashion. And though it may seem a heartless
act, it was really the best thing that
could have happened to Jolly and his sister
and his brothers.</p>
<p>You see, they had to learn to fly. And
so long as they stayed in the nest they
could never learn a difficult feat like
flying.</p>
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