"Don't do it, " said another little voice. "Hooty may be a robber,but he has a place in the Green Forest, or 0ld Mother Nature neverwould have put him here. It is just as much stealing to take hiseggs as to take the eggs of any other bird. He has just as muchright to them as Jenny Wren has to hers."

"Take one and leave one, " exclaimed the first voice.