One day a flock of sparrows were noticed flying excitedly around a house, and going near I saw that a young sparrow had fallen from a nest under the tiles and was too young to fly back.
    Suddenly a bantam cock stepped forward. He evidently understood the state of affairs, for he picked the little mite up very tenderly in his beak, mounted an empty cart that happened to be conveniently near, flew from it on to the tiles and, stretching his neck out over the edge replaced the sparrow in its nest.
    In doing so, however, he overbalanced himself and tumbled to the ground. But after pluming his feathers for a minute he strutted about the yard none the worse for his adventure and evidently very proud of his exploit.
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