Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: baskets and bags, they sat down under the shade of a walnut tree, to eat some dinner, which they had brought along in THE YELLOW THROAT. one of the baskets. During this frugal repast they were entertained with thesong of a Yellow Throat, one of the very sweetest of all the wild birds of the forest. He loves the thickest shades of the wood; and although the children were perfectly charmed with his music, he was so shy, that they could not get a single look at him. After dinner, the children strolling further into the wood, came suddenly upon a party of their school fellows, who were in the woods for a day's sport. They were sitting under a tree, telling stories to each other. Frank and Fanny were received by THE STORY TELLING PARTY. this lively party with loud shouts of welcome. They sat down and listened to one or two stories, after which Fanny was invited by one of the little girls, to go and see a fine swing, which the partyhad put upon one of the trees of the forest. The two girls enjoyed themselves in swinging here for half an hour, while Frank remained with the party who were so much engrossed with the stories as not to miss the two little girls who were enjoying the swing. The Swing. When Fanny returned from the swinging expedition, the children took leave of their friends, and returned alone to the business of filling their bags and baskets with nuts. This they accomplished before sunset, and joyfully set forward for home. Leavingthe skirts of this forest, they saw a little boy reclin- THE WOODCHUCK HUNTER. ing under a tree with a dog by his side. The boy was leaning his head rather dejectedly on his hand, and seemed rather tired. On the children inquiring how he came there, he replied, that he had been spending the whole day with his dog, vai...