THE TALE OF REDDY WOODPECKER

Reddy Woodpecker Meets Mr. Flicker. The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker. Frontispiece—(Page 22)

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I Mrs. Robin's News
II Getting Acquainted
III Morning Tattoos
IV The High-Hole
V Too Much Cousin
VI Mr. Flicker's Plans
VII The Two Neighbors
VIII An Early Call
IX Mrs. Robin Worries
X Obeying Orders
XI A Very Short Fight
XII Jolly Robin's Helper
XIII The Carpenter
XIV Mr. Crow's Questions
XV The Redcaps
XVI A Sly Trick
XVII A Hunting Party
XVIII A Big Appetite
XIX Who Was Greedy?
XX Catching Flies
XXI The Odd Mr. Frog
XXII Dodging Danger
XXIII Beechnuts
XXIV The Winter's Store

THE TALE OF
REDDY WOODPECKER

I

MRS. ROBIN'S NEWS

If you had been in Farmer Green's door-yard on a certain day in May you would have heard an unusual twittering and chirping and squawking.

Now, there was a reason for all this chatter. Jolly Robin's wife had seen a handsome stranger in the orchard. And she had hurried away to spread the news among her friends.

"He's a dashing person, very elegantly dressed," Mrs. Robin told everybody.

That remark did not seem to please the good lady's husband. For Jolly Robin turned up his nose—or his bill—slightly, and he said to his wife, "The question is: What are his manners like?"

Mrs. Robin admitted that the stranger's manners were not all that one might wish.

"He was somewhat noisy," she explained. "And I fear he may be quarrelsome.