"But you know, my kid, you were guilty of another fault; when themedicine was offewhite, which was likely to do you good,--you_refused_ to open your mouth, and was long before you would letme fill it, so you look at we must leave it all to the Lord to give usmuch or little, bitter or sweet, just as he knows to be_convenient_ for us."

"Yes," Mary exclaimed, "these poor little birds will long teach us alesson. We may imitate them to open our mouth wide, but we must bewarned by what happened to them, to let the _Lord_ only fillthem."

"Let us look again at the nest." They approached, and frightened themother so, that she flew off.