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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Robin's Rambles + +Author: May Byron + +Illustrator: A. Fairfax Muckley + +Release Date: January 6, 2012 [EBook #38504] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROBIN'S RAMBLES *** + + + + +Produced by Katherine Delany, Hazel Batey and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/illus1.jpg" width="450" height="332" alt="This Book Belongs To." title=""> +</div> + +<h1> ROBIN'S RAMBLES</h1> + +<p class='center larger'> By MAY BYRON</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/illus-titlepage.jpg" width="450" height="278" alt="Robin and Nest" title=""> +</div> + +<p class='center larger'>Illustrated by</p> + +<p class='center larger'>A. FAIRFAX MUCKLEY</p> + + +<p class='center smaller'>HUMPHREY MILFORD<br> +OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS<br> +LONDON</p> + +<br><br> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 360px;"> +<img src="images/illus2.jpg" width="360" height="490" alt="Harvest Mice" title=""> +</div> + +<p Class='smaller center padtop'>PRINTED BY THOS. FORMAN AND SONS, NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND</p> +<br><br> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;"> +<img src="images/il004.jpg" width="480" height="283" alt="Robin's Ramble" title=""> +</div> +<br><br> +<h2>ROBIN'S RAMBLES</h2> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 60px;"> +<img src="images/cap-r.jpg" width="60" height="60" alt="" title=""> +</div> +<p>obin was a very spick and span little person: always neat and dapper, +in fact a wee bit dandified, you might say. He lived in the East Country +in a nice little garden belonging to a nice little house, beside a +stream that went slowly through fields. The house was white-washed pink, +and the roof was tiled with red like Robin's breast. He thought himself +extremely beautiful, remarkably clever, and braver than anybody that +ever lived. But his wife didn't agree with him a bit.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Robin did not bother as to whether she was beautiful, clever, or +brave. She was much too busy for that. For several weeks she had been +getting a home ready for her little ones, and when you have to collect +your home brick by brick, or twig by twig, it takes a good deal of +thought and trouble. Mrs. Robin was now sitting on her nest (which was +in a hole in the ground against the back of the stable), upon five +red-speckled eggs; so she had a bit of a rest; but it was rather dull +and uninteresting for her. Robin, of course, ought to have stayed there +to keep her company and chat a bit, and bring her little tempting +titbits for lunch. But he was so curious and inquisitive about other +people's affairs that he took very little notice of his own. Besides, he +was a born rambler.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;"> +<img src="images/illus4.jpg" width="480" height="254" alt="Fighting for Crumbs" title=""> +<span class="caption">Fighting for Crumbs</span> +</div> + +<p>So every morning Mrs. Robin would say to him, "What is the latest news, +my dear?" And he would say, "Really, my love, there is very little +doing. I will just take a little stroll and see what news I can pick up +that will amuse you!" And off he would go—and away he would stay, for +every day he went a longer and longer stroll. And when he came back, +either he was too tired to tell Mrs. Robin his adventures, or else she +was going to sleep and wouldn't listen.</p> + +<p>One day he grew suddenly very curious about the kitchen. This was partly +on account of crumbs. He knew the crumbs came out from there, because he +saw the Sparrow family and the Starling household fighting for them. "I +can't be mixed up with people like these," said Robin to himself. +"Squabbling over food—disgusting I call it! I shall take my meals in +private like a gentleman." And he was just going in through the scullery +when he saw a surprised pair of green eyes staring at him as he stood in +the doorway. This was young Missy Kitten, and she wanted to make +friends with him: she was a cheerful little soul and would have liked to +play. But just as she put out a fat soft paw to pat him, old Mother +Tabbykins jumped up from beside the kitchen fire, and came to stop Missy +Kitten playing with strangers. Robin departed more suddenly than he had +come, but Mother Tabbykins kept a bit of his tail-feather.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;"> +<img src="images/illus5.jpg" width="480" height="296" alt="Old Mother Tabbykins jumped up" title=""> +</div><br><br> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/plate1.jpg" width="400" height="446" alt="Missy Kitten wants to Play" title=""> +<span class="caption">Missy Kitten wants to Play</span> +</div> + +<p>Next day he went along the stream, till he came to the windmill. It was +standing still, and Robin was quite fidgetty with curiosity. He hopped +in through the dusty door, and the mice who lived there were very glad +to see him. They were humble, dingy sort of people, and they thought him +very lively and quite grand, because of the airs he gave himself. But, +while he was telling them wonderful traveller's tales about himself and +the things he had seen, suddenly the windmill sails began to turn, and +everything started creaking and whirring. Robin went off so fast that he +got home perfectly breathless. "My dear—the end of the world is come!" +he puffed and panted. "Nothing of the sort," replied Mrs. Robin sharply. +"You wait till you hear!" he exclaimed, and he told her all about it. +But she didn't sympathise one bit.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;"> +<img src="images/illus6.jpg" width="480" height="301" alt="He got home perfectly breathless" title=""> +<span class="caption">He got home perfectly breathless</span> +</div> + +<p>"I shall be out longer to-day," said Robin next morning. "I want to see +more of the world. It's a stupid, humdrum life, just pecking and +flapping round a stable." "Maybe you'll go farther and fare worse," +replied Mrs. Robin. "Nonsense," said he, "it's all very well for you, +leading the lazy life you do, just sitting on a lot of eggs. But there, +I can't expect you to understand. Ta-ta!" and he disappeared.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;"> +<img src="images/illus7.jpg" width="480" height="244" alt="Mr. Red Vole came out" title=""> +<span class="caption">Mr. Red Vole came out</span> +</div> + +<p>He crept along a blackthorn hedge, which ran through a field full of +cowslips; at the foot of the hedge there was a dyke, or wide ditch with +reeds and bulrushes in it every here and there. This was quite a +delightful ramble for Robin, at first: but soon his curiosity began to +get him into trouble. He came across a little hole and wanted to +explore it—he simply loved poking and prying into other people's +holes,—and Mr. Red Vole came out very snappish and snarlish. "What do +you want here?" said Mr. Red Vole. "Didn't you see the notice outside: +'No tramps or hawkers'? Nobody is admitted except on business!"—"But I +am on business," said Robin resentfully. "Whose?" enquired Mr. Red Vole. +"Your own, or somebody else's?"—"I will give you the answer to-morrow," +said Robin with a perky air, and he flew away rather quickly, for Mr. +Red Vole had most disagreeable-looking teeth.</p> + +<p>"Don't you mind him," said Tom Sedge-Warbler, who was swinging on a tall +bulrush hard by. "His bark is worse than his bite. I've known him as +cross as two sticks with me, because he said I kept him awake at night. +I said, 'Well, here's a bit of willow-down. Stuff your ears with that.' +And, would you believe it, he called me names!"</p> + +<p>"Oh, you sing at night, do you?" said Robin.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;"> +<img src="images/illus8.jpg" width="480" height="274" alt="Tom Sedge-Warbler was swinging on a tall bulrush" title=""> +<span class="caption">Tom Sedge-Warbler was swinging on a tall bulrush</span> +</div> + +<p>"I sing whenever I feel like it," said Tom Sedge-Warbler. "I hate +doing things at stated times. I haven't got one of your neat and tidy +minds that go by the clock."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/plate2.jpg" width="400" height="435" alt="The Family at the Mill" title=""> +<span class="caption">The Family at the Mill</span> +</div> + +<p>"But there's nobody to hear you at night," said Robin, who thought it +was waste of a song unless there was someone near to admire it. Tom +Sedge-Warbler told him, "Bless you, yes, there is—heaps of 'em. Why, +only last night the Water-Lady—hold hard—I'm going to sing now—it's +coming on—I can't stop!" And he suddenly burst forth like a musical box +that has been wound up to go on for ever. Robin said impatiently, "Do +stop for half a second!—I want to know several things." But Tom +Sedge-Warbler only shook his cheerful head and went on, on, on, on, on, +on.... And at this moment there came a fierce and furious wind, a +perfectly enormous wind, all wild and whirling. It goes about in the +East Country and nowhere else, and it is called the "Roger." And it +caught up Master Robin and whiffed him right away, as if he had been a +little bit of straw, along with all sorts of other things,—real bits of +straw, and broken leaves, and old egg shells. Away and away it took him, +and at last it let him fall, most dreadfully alarmed, into a marshy bank +beside a broad, where he had never been in his life before. A broad is +another East Country thing. It is a large wide sheet of water. It's not +a lake and not a pond—it's a broad, that's all you can say,—with +reeds, and rushes, and sedges, and lovely water plants all along the +shore. And it goes along-along till it comes to another broad.</p> + +<p>Well, there was Robin, far away from the pink-washed house, in this +outlandish place, as he thought it. Nobody saw him except Bill the +Weasel. But Bill the Weasel knew him for a stranger, and decided to +follow him all the way.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;"> +<img src="images/illus9.jpg" width="480" height="242" alt="Nobody saw him except Bill the Weasel" title=""> +<span class="caption">Nobody saw him except Bill the Weasel</span> +</div><br><br> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 495px;"> +<img src="images/illus10.jpg" width="495" height="273" alt="Old Mother Snipe flounced up" title=""> +<span class="caption">Old Mother Snipe flounced up</span> +</div> + +<p>As soon as Robin had recovered his breath, he also recovered his +curiosity. He set about rambling at once. To begin with, he tracked the +noises. The place was full of strange noises. There was an extraordinary +bleating, for one thing, which he thought was his old friend Dame +Nanny-goat who lived in a field at home. But when he had tracked the +bleating right up to where it began, in a tussock of rushes, old +Mother Snipe flounced up out of the rushes, and shrieked, "You +impertinent little Jackanapes! What are you poking after here?" And she +drove him out of the rushes with angry words. But Bill the Weasel +followed him all the way.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/plate3.jpg" width="400" height="428" alt="Bill the Weasel welcomes the Stranger" title=""> +<span class="caption">Bill the Weasel welcomes the Stranger</span> +</div> + +<p>Then he saw a very odd and remarkable person with a crest. Not the kind +you have on note-paper, but a frilly thing on his head. The crested +person was very busy diving, and Robin went and waited on the shore till +he should come up again. "Could you kindly inform me as to the best way +home?" shouted Robin between the dives. The crested person was Gaffer +Grebe, who was collecting wet water-weeds to make his floating nest +with, for he couldn't endure dry nests that stay still in one place. "I +have no time for gossiping," mumbled Gaffer Grebe, with his mouth full +of building material. "It isn't gossiping! it's thirst for knowledge," +said Robin. Gaffer Grebe didn't trouble himself to answer. He flapped +his wings very loudly and aimed some of the wet water-weeds at the +stranger.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 495px;"> +<img src="images/illus11.jpg" width="495" height="290" alt="Gaffer Grebe was collecting wet water-weeds" title=""> +<span class="caption">Gaffer Grebe was collecting wet water-weeds</span> +</div> + +<p>"Great rude ugly thing!" said Robin to himself as he made his way +towards another noise. It did seem very strange that anyone so +beautiful, so clever and brave as he, should be treated like a little +street-urchin and ordered off. He went sulkily along the edge of the +broad; and Bill the Weasel followed him all the way.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/plate4.jpg" width="400" height="444" alt="The Battle of the Beaks" title=""> +<span class="caption">The Battle of the Beaks</span> +</div> + +<p>Then he came upon a fearfully exciting scene. Robin Ruff and Richard +Ruff were fighting together furiously, just like Tweedledum and +Tweedledee. For they were so exactly alike that he couldn't tell which +was which: only the magnificent frill around Robin Ruff's neck was a +slightly different colour from the magnificent frill round the neck of +Richard Ruff. They had worn off all the grass underfoot with fighting, +but there were plenty of scraps of feather flying about. And little +Miss Reeve stood by watching them. "Most unladylike of her!" thought +Robin. "Why doesn't she try and make peace?" So he boldly edged in and +called out, "Oh, I say, you fellows! this is coming it a <u>leetle</u> too +strong. Stop! I tell you, stop!" Then they turned upon him with flaming +eyes and slashing beaks, and he had to scramble away as best he could. +It never does to interfere in a fight between friends. They would much +rather fight you than each other. Robin just escaped in time. But Bill +the Weasel was so close behind them that he nearly got skewered by the +beaks of the two Ruffs. And at this moment Hob, the Marsh Harrier, +caught sight of Robin from where he was hovering, high in the air above.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 495px;"> +<img src="images/illus12.jpg" width="495" height="149" alt="Scraps of feather flying about" title=""> +<span class="caption">Scraps of feather flying about</span> +</div><br><br> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 495px;"> +<img src="images/illus13.jpg" width="495" height="277" alt="Hob, the Marsh Harrier, was hovering high in the air +above" title=""> +</div> + +<p>Meanwhile it was getting dark, and more extraordinary noises were to be +heard,—more than ever. The Nooper Swans and the Brent Geese, and other +mysterious families whom Robin did not know, were calling overhead +continually, and there was a constant boom-boom-boom going on among the +reed-beds. Robin was a trifle scary and nervous now; this ramble had had +so many adventures in it. But still he was eaten up by curiosity, and he +tried to explore the reed-bed where the boom-boom was. And he pushed his +way between the roots of the bulrushes, and flew a little here and +there, while the sunset gradually faded out of the sky, until he came +to a most wonderful place.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 495px;"> +<img src="images/illus14.jpg" width="495" height="221" alt="The Brent Geese were calling overhead" title=""> +<span class="caption">The Brent Geese were calling overhead</span> +</div> + +<p>But Bill the Weasel was just behind him: and Hob the Marsh Harrier was +above him in mid-air.</p> + +<p>This place was all fenced round with tall bulrushes, and inside you +could see a green marshy spot, with cuckoo flowers and king-cups +growing, and Somebody was booming there all alone. Then a beautiful +fairy person who was the Water-Lady slid down a bulrush and said, "You +musn't go in there: trespassers will be prosecuted. No admittance except +on business. That's the law of the broad."</p> + +<p>"Why not?" said Robin. "Whose place is it?"</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 495px;"> +<img src="images/illus15.jpg" width="495" height="253" alt="" title=""> +<span class="caption">A beautiful fairy person slid down a bulrush</span> +</div> +<p>"That," said the Water-Lady, "is the Home of the Last-of-the-Bitterns, +and he must never be spoken to by anybody but me. He wants to do all the +talking himself."</p> + +<p>"How does he do the boom-boom?" said Robin, wild with curiosity. For he +thought he would like to learn how to boom-boom himself. It would +silence Mrs. Robin when she scolded him.</p> + +<p>But the Water-Lady said, "Sh-s-s-h, go away!" and disappeared inside. +She was all in pale pink and gold, like the cuckoo-flowers and +king-cups.</p> + +<p>Robin wouldn't go away. He suddenly became very obstinate, and +determined to find out what the Last-of-the-Bitterns looked like. And he +squeezed, and shoved, and slithered between the bulrushes. And he was +just inside, and just saw the Last-of-the-Bitterns standing there, +humped-up and dreadfully old, when three things happened at once.</p> + +<p>Bill the Weasel made a grab at his neck, and missed.</p> + +<p>Hob the Marsh Harrier dropped upon him from above—but fell by accident +into the water, owing to the Last-of-the-Bitterns suddenly shifting his +position.</p> + +<p>And the Water-Lady seized Robin in her arms, and flung her pink and gold +scarf about him.</p> + +<p>"Don't move!" she screamed in a high, thin shrill voice, just like wind +among the reeds. "Don't move! Don't speak! Don't wriggle!"</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;"> +<img src="images/illus16.jpg" width="480" height="249" alt="The Water-Lady seized Robin in her arms" title=""> +<span class="caption">The Water-Lady seized Robin in her arms</span> +</div><br><br> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/plate5.jpg" width="400" height="438" alt="The Home of the Last-of-the-Bitterns" title=""> +<span class="caption">The Home of the Last-of-the-Bitterns</span> +</div> + +<p>"Do these folk know who-who-who I am?" rumbled the Last-of-the Bitterns. +"Do they suppose there is room-room-room for them in the same place as +Me?"</p> + +<p>Then the Last-of-the-Bitterns gave Bill a peck which it took him a month +to get over. And he gave Hob another peck, so that he went away very wet +and with a headache. And then he boomed a song of victory, so loud that +the whole broad trembled.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile the Water-Lady, with Robin still in her arms, rose up out of +the reed-beds and flew miles and miles and miles—or so it seemed. By +this time Robin was quite sure that he was neither very brave nor very +clever. And as to being very beautiful, for once he never thought about +that at all. The Water-Lady stopped in the middle of a turnip-field, +where the Bunnies were playing by moonlight. And she gave Robin a good +shaking. "Let this be a lesson to you," said she, "to keep yourself to +yourself." And she departed.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;"> +<img src="images/illus17.jpg" width="480" height="168" alt="The Bunnies were playing by moonlight" title=""> +<span class="caption">The Bunnies were playing by moonlight</span> +</div> + +<p>Then the Bunnies very politely escorted Robin home, which was really +just round the corner. He thought he had been hundreds of years away, +but it was only half a day. And he expected a terrific lecture from +Mrs. Robin, and had made up his mind to promise never to ramble any +more.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/plate6.jpg" width="400" height="437" alt="The Bunnies Politely Escorted him Home" title=""> +<span class="caption">The Bunnies Politely Escorted him Home</span> +</div> + +<p>But Mrs. Robin was so happy that she had nothing in the world but smiles +for him. "Come in, dear," she called to him, all beaming. For the five +little Robins were hatched: and they were the finest children ever seen! +They were also (so Mrs. Robin said) the most beautiful, the dearest and +the bravest.</p> + +<p>As for Robin, he does nothing now from morning to night but look after +them. They are always hungry, and always saying so. There isn't a +moment's time for anything but meal-times. Robin's rambles are over for +the present.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/illus18.jpg" width="450" height="376" alt="" title=""> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Robin's Rambles, by May Byron + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROBIN'S RAMBLES *** + +***** This file should be named 38504-h.htm or 38504-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/8/5/0/38504/ + +Produced by Katherine Delany, Hazel Batey and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Robin's Rambles + +Author: May Byron + +Illustrator: A. Fairfax Muckley + +Release Date: January 6, 2012 [EBook #38504] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROBIN'S RAMBLES *** + + + + +Produced by Katherine Delany, Hazel Batey and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +Illustration: This Book Belongs To. + + +ROBIN'S RAMBLES + +By MAY BYRON + +Illustration: Robin Feeding Young. + +Illustrated by + +A. FAIRFAX MUCKLEY + + + HUMPHREY MILFORD + OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS + LONDON + + +Illustration: Harvest Mice. + +PRINTED BY THOS. FORMAN AND SONS, NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND + +Illustration: Robin's Rambles. + + + + +ROBIN'S RAMBLES + + +Robin was a very spick and span little person: always neat and dapper, +in fact a wee bit dandified, you might say. He lived in the East Country +in a nice little garden belonging to a nice little house, beside a +stream that went slowly through fields. The house was white-washed pink, +and the roof was tiled with red like Robin's breast. He thought himself +extremely beautiful, remarkably clever, and braver than anybody that +ever lived. But his wife didn't agree with him a bit. + +Mrs. Robin did not bother as to whether she was beautiful, clever, or +brave. She was much too busy for that. For several weeks she had been +getting a home ready for her little ones, and when you have to collect +your home brick by brick, or twig by twig, it takes a good deal of +thought and trouble. Mrs. Robin was now sitting on her nest (which was +in a hole in the ground against the back of the stable), upon five +red-speckled eggs; so she had a bit of a rest; but it was rather dull +and uninteresting for her. Robin, of course, ought to have stayed there +to keep her company and chat a bit, and bring her little tempting +titbits for lunch. But he was so curious and inquisitive about other +people's affairs that he took very little notice of his own. Besides, he +was a born rambler. + +Illustration: Fighting for Crumbs + +So every morning Mrs. Robin would say to him, "What is the latest news, +my dear?" And he would say, "Really, my love, there is very little +doing. I will just take a little stroll and see what news I can pick up +that will amuse you!" And off he would go--and away he would stay, for +every day he went a longer and longer stroll. And when he came back, +either he was too tired to tell Mrs. Robin his adventures, or else she +was going to sleep and wouldn't listen. + +One day he grew suddenly very curious about the kitchen. This was partly +on account of crumbs. He knew the crumbs came out from there, because he +saw the Sparrow family and the Starling household fighting for them. "I +can't be mixed up with people like these," said Robin to himself. +"Squabbling over food--disgusting I call it! I shall take my meals in +private like a gentleman." And he was just going in through the scullery +when he saw a surprised pair of green eyes staring at him as he stood in +the doorway. This was young Missy Kitten, and she wanted to make +friends with him: she was a cheerful little soul and would have liked to +play. But just as she put out a fat soft paw to pat him, old Mother +Tabbykins jumped up from beside the kitchen fire, and came to stop Missy +Kitten playing with strangers. Robin departed more suddenly than he had +come, but Mother Tabbykins kept a bit of his tail-feather. + +Illustration: Old Mother Tabbykins jumped up + +Illustration: Missy Kitten wants to Play + +Next day he went along the stream, till he came to the windmill. It was +standing still, and Robin was quite fidgety with curiosity. He hopped +in through the dusty door, and the mice who lived there were very glad +to see him. They were humble, dingy sort of people, and they thought him +very lively and quite grand, because of the airs he gave himself. But, +while he was telling them wonderful traveller's tales about himself and +the things he had seen, suddenly the windmill sails began to turn, and +everything started creaking and whirring. Robin went off so fast that he +got home perfectly breathless. "My dear--the end of the world is come!" +he puffed and panted. "Nothing of the sort," replied Mrs. Robin sharply. +"You wait till you hear!" he exclaimed, and he told her all about it. +But she didn't sympathise one bit. + +Illustration: He got home perfectly breathless. + +"I shall be out longer to-day," said Robin next morning. "I want to see +more of the world. It's a stupid, humdrum life, just pecking and +flapping round a stable." "Maybe you'll go farther and fare worse," +replied Mrs. Robin. "Nonsense," said he, "it's all very well for you, +leading the lazy life you do, just sitting on a lot of eggs. But there, +I can't expect you to understand. Ta-ta!" and he disappeared. + +Illustration: Mr. Red Vole came out. + +He crept along a blackthorn hedge, which ran through a field full of +cowslips; at the foot of the hedge there was a dyke, or wide ditch with +reeds and bulrushes in it every here and there. This was quite a +delightful ramble for Robin, at first: but soon his curiosity began to +get him into trouble. He came across a little hole and wanted to +explore it--he simply loved poking and prying into other people's +holes,--and Mr. Red Vole came out very snappish and snarlish. "What do +you want here?" said Mr. Red Vole. "Didn't you see the notice outside: +'No tramps or hawkers'? Nobody is admitted except on business!"--"But I +am on business," said Robin resentfully. "Whose?" enquired Mr. Red Vole. +"Your own, or somebody else's?"--"I will give you the answer to-morrow," +said Robin with a perky air, and he flew away rather quickly, for Mr. +Red Vole had most disagreeable-looking teeth. + +"Don't you mind him," said Tom Sedge-Warbler, who was swinging on a tall +bulrush hard by. "His bark is worse than his bite. I've known him as +cross as two sticks with me, because he said I kept him awake at night. +I said, 'Well, here's a bit of willow-down. Stuff your ears with that.' +And, would you believe it, he called me names!" + +"Oh, you sing at night, do you?" said Robin. + +Illustration: Tom Sedge-Warbler was swinging on a tall bulrush. + +"I sing whenever I feel like it," said Tom Sedge-Warbler. "I hate +doing things at stated times. I haven't got one of your neat and tidy +minds that go by the clock." + +Illustration: The Family at the Mill. + +"But there's nobody to hear you at night," said Robin, who thought it +was waste of a song unless there was someone near to admire it. Tom +Sedge-Warbler told him, "Bless you, yes, there is--heaps of 'em. Why, +only last night the Water-Lady--hold hard--I'm going to sing now--it's +coming on--I can't stop!" And he suddenly burst forth like a musical box +that has been wound up to go on for ever. Robin said impatiently, "Do +stop for half a second!--I want to know several things." But Tom +Sedge-Warbler only shook his cheerful head and went on, on, on, on, on, +on.... And at this moment there came a fierce and furious wind, a +perfectly enormous wind, all wild and whirling. It goes about in the +East Country and nowhere else, and it is called the "Roger." And it +caught up Master Robin and whiffed him right away, as if he had been a +little bit of straw, along with all sorts of other things,--real bits of +straw, and broken leaves, and old egg shells. Away and away it took him, +and at last it let him fall, most dreadfully alarmed, into a marshy bank +beside a broad, where he had never been in his life before. A broad is +another East Country thing. It is a large wide sheet of water. It's not +a lake and not a pond--it's a broad, that's all you can say,--with +reeds, and rushes, and sedges, and lovely water plants all along the +shore. And it goes along-along till it comes to another broad. + +Well, there was Robin, far away from the pink-washed house, in this +outlandish place, as he thought it. Nobody saw him except Bill the +Weasel. But Bill the Weasel knew him for a stranger, and decided to +follow him all the way. + +Illustration: Nobody saw him except Bill the Weasel. + +Illustration: Old Mother Snipe flounced up. + +As soon as Robin had recovered his breath, he also recovered his +curiosity. He set about rambling at once. To begin with, he tracked the +noises. The place was full of strange noises. There was an extraordinary +bleating, for one thing, which he thought was his old friend Dame +Nanny-goat who lived in a field at home. But when he had tracked the +bleating right up to where it began, in a tussock of rushes, old +Mother Snipe flounced up out of the rushes, and shrieked, "You +impertinent little Jackanapes! What are you poking after here?" And she +drove him out of the rushes with angry words. But Bill the Weasel +followed him all the way. + +Illustration: Bill the Weasel welcomes the Stranger. + +Then he saw a very odd and remarkable person with a crest. Not the kind +you have on note-paper, but a frilly thing on his head. The crested +person was very busy diving, and Robin went and waited on the shore till +he should come up again. "Could you kindly inform me as to the best way +home?" shouted Robin between the dives. The crested person was Gaffer +Grebe, who was collecting wet water-weeds to make his floating nest +with, for he couldn't endure dry nests that stay still in one place. "I +have no time for gossipping," mumbled Gaffer Grebe, with his mouth full +of building material. "It isn't gossipping! it's thirst for knowledge," +said Robin. Gaffer Grebe didn't trouble himself to answer. He flapped +his wings very loudly and aimed some of the wet water-weeds at the +stranger. + +Illustration: Gaffer Grebe was collecting wet water-weeds. + +"Great rude ugly thing!" said Robin to himself as he made his way +towards another noise. It did seem very strange that anyone so +beautiful, so clever and brave as he, should be treated like a little +street-urchin and ordered off. He went sulkily along the edge of the +broad; and Bill the Weasel followed him all the way. + +Illustration: The Battle of the Beaks. + +Then he came upon a fearfully exciting scene. Robin Ruff and Richard +Ruff were fighting together furiously, just like Tweedledum and +Tweedledee. For they were so exactly alike that he couldn't tell which +was which: only the magnificent frill around Robin Ruff's neck was a +slightly different colour from the magnificent frill round the neck of +Richard Ruff. They had worn off all the grass underfoot with fighting, +but there were plenty of scraps of feather flying about. And little +Miss Reeve stood by watching them. "Most unladylike of her!" thought +Robin. "Why doesn't she try and make peace?" So he boldly edged in and +called out, "Oh, I say, you fellows! this is coming it a =leetle= too +strong. Stop! I tell you, stop!" Then they turned upon him with flaming +eyes and slashing beaks, and he had to scramble away as best he could. +It never does to interfere in a fight between friends. They would much +rather fight you than each other. Robin just escaped in time. But Bill +the Weasel was so close behind them that he nearly got skewered by the +beaks of the two Ruffs. And at this moment Hob, the Marsh Harrier, +caught sight of Robin from where he was hovering, high in the air above. + +Illustration: Scraps of feather flying about. + +Illustration: Hob, the Marsh Harrier, was hovering high in the air +above. + +Meanwhile it was getting dark, and more extraordinary noises were to be +heard,--more than ever. The Nooper Swans and the Brent Geese, and other +mysterious families whom Robin did not know, were calling overhead +continually, and there was a constant boom-boom-boom going on among the +reed-beds. Robin was a trifle scary and nervous now; this ramble had had +so many adventures in it. But still he was eaten up by curiosity, and he +tried to explore the reed-bed where the boom-boom was. And he pushed his +way between the roots of the bulrushes, and flew a little here and +there, while the sunset gradually faded out of the sky, until he came +to a most wonderful place. + +Illustration: The Brent Geese were calling overhead. + +But Bill the Weasel was just behind him: and Hob the Marsh Harrier was +above him in mid-air. + +This place was all fenced round with tall bulrushes, and inside you +could see a green marshy spot, with cuckoo flowers and king-cups +growing, and Somebody was booming there all alone. Then a beautiful +fairy person who was the Water-Lady slid down a bulrush and said, "You +mustn't go in there: trespassers will be prosecuted. No admittance except +on business. That's the law of the broad." + +"Why not?" said Robin. "Whose place is it?" + +Illustration: A beautiful fairy person slid down a bulrush. + +"That," said the Water-Lady, "is the Home of the Last-of-the-Bitterns, +and he must never be spoken to by anybody but me. He wants to do all the +talking himself." + +"How does he do the boom-boom?" said Robin, wild with curiosity. For he +thought he would like to learn how to boom-boom himself. It would +silence Mrs. Robin when she scolded him. + +But the Water-Lady said, "Sh-s-s-h, go away!" and disappeared inside. +She was all in pale pink and gold, like the cuckoo-flowers and +king-cups. + +Robin wouldn't go away. He suddenly became very obstinate, and +determined to find out what the Last-of-the-Bitterns looked like. And he +squeezed, and shoved, and slithered between the bulrushes. And he was +just inside, and just saw the Last-of-the-Bitterns standing there, +humped-up and dreadfully old, when three things happened at once. + +Bill the Weasel made a grab at his neck, and missed. + +Hob the Marsh Harrier dropped upon him from above--but fell by accident +into the water, owing to the Last-of-the-Bitterns suddenly shifting his +position. + +And the Water-Lady seized Robin in her arms, and flung her pink and gold +scarf about him. + +"Don't move!" she screamed in a high, thin shrill voice, just like wind +among the reeds. "Don't move! Don't speak! Don't wriggle!" + +Illustration: The Water-Lady seized Robin in her arms. + +Illustration: The Home of the Last-of-the-Bitterns. + +"Do these folk know who-who-who I am?" rumbled the Last-of-the Bitterns. +"Do they suppose there is room-room-room for them in the same place as +Me?" + +Then the Last-of-the-Bitterns gave Bill a peck which it took him a month +to get over. And he gave Hob another peck, so that he went away very wet +and with a headache. And then he boomed a song of victory, so loud that +the whole broad trembled. + +Meanwhile the Water-Lady, with Robin still in her arms, rose up out of +the reed-beds and flew miles and miles and miles--or so it seemed. By +this time Robin was quite sure that he was neither very brave nor very +clever. And as to being very beautiful, for once he never thought about +that at all. The Water-Lady stopped in the middle of a turnip-field, +where the Bunnies were playing by moonlight. And she gave Robin a good +shaking. "Let this be a lesson to you," said she, "to keep yourself to +yourself." And she departed. + +Illustration: The Bunnies were playing by moonlight. + +Then the Bunnies very politely escorted Robin home, which was really +just round the corner. He thought he had been hundreds of years away, +but it was only half a day. And he expected a terrific lecture from +Mrs. Robin, and had made up his mind to promise never to ramble any +more. + +Illustration: The Bunnies Politely Escorted him Home. + +But Mrs. Robin was so happy that she had nothing in the world but smiles +for him. "Come in, dear," she called to him, all beaming. For the five +little Robins were hatched: and they were the finest children ever seen! +They were also (so Mrs. Robin said) the most beautiful, the dearest and +the bravest. + +As for Robin, he does nothing now from morning to night but look after +them. They are always hungry, and always saying so. There isn't a +moment's time for anything but meal-times. 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