\u00a0 It was a beautiful Spring day.\u00a0 The flowers were blooming, the sun was shining, the white fluffy\u00a0clouds were\u00a0 skittering across the sky.\u00a0 Buddy sparrow rode the air currents up and down, stretching his wings wide and gliding back and forth in the breeze.\u00a0 Buddy had not a care in the world other than he was supposed to be looking for a new house for his wife so that she could build her nest.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Buddy didn’t take many things seriously, so house hunting was not at the top of his to do list for the day.\u00a0 He searched for fat worms in the warm soil, took a dirt bath in the shade of the old elm tree and spent the greater part of the morning trying to keep out of the way of Mrs. Craig who was busy planting flowers in her flower beds.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He landed on a tree branch and who should land right next to him but his wife, Betsy.\u00a0 “Have you found us a house yet?” asked Betsy looking at Buddy suspiciously.\u00a0 “Uh, I’ve sure been trying, but all the good houses are taken.”\u00a0\u00a0 “Well, said his wife, ” You better find one soon because I feel an egg coming on.”\u00a0 “Oops,” said Buddy and flew off on a mission.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 Around and around the yard he flew stopping at each house where an angry sparrow would say,”Get out of here!”\u00a0 He was beginning to give up hope when he spotted a cute little house that looked like a cabin.\u00a0 “Betsy would love this,” he said to himself.\u00a0 He flew down to take a look.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Now Buddy was a sparrow and this house was built for a wren so he didn’t realize he might be just a little too big to fit in the house, but he was going to try.\u00a0 He stuck in his head.\u00a0 Oh, oh, the rest of his body would not go inside.\u00a0 Then he tried to pull his head out. It was stuck!\u00a0 Oh, no.\u00a0 Twist and turn as much as he could, he still could not get his head out of the house.\u00a0 “I’m done for,” Buddy thought.\u00a0 Then his beak got caught on the wood and he really was stuck.\u00a0 He hung there, head in and body out of the wren house thinking this was the end of him.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 In the house Mr. and Mrs. Craig were talking about getting some food for the chickens.\u00a0 Mrs. Craig wanted to show Mr. Craig the flower beds she had been planting that morning.\u00a0 As they started to go out the back door, Mr. Craig said, “Is that\u00a0 bird\u00a0trying to get\u00a0into that bird house?”\u00a0 Mrs. Craig looked and saw the backend of a bird with its wings flapping crazily seeming to try to get into the birdhouse.\u00a0 “That sparrow is too fat to get into that little wren house hole,” said Mr. Craig.\u00a0 Then they both realized the bird was stuck.\u00a0 Now Mrs. Craig cannot stand to see anything suffer and she pleaded with Mr. Craig to try to get the bird unstuck.\u00a0 “Oh, don’t pull his head off,” she cried as Mr. Craig began to pull and twist Buddy’s head around to try to get him loose.\u00a0 Then he stuck his finger inside the hole and felt around and realized Buddy’s beak was wedged into the wood.\u00a0 He popped it out and out popped Buddy.\u00a0\u00a0 Buddy flew to the ground and suddenly two big dogs were running after him. Would his troubles never end?<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Mr. and Mrs. Craig got the dogs under control and then tried to get Buddy to move where the dogs could not reach him.\u00a0 He was too dazed yet to fly and felt kind of woozy, but he hopped like mad under the rhubarb leaves and sat there catching his breath.\u00a0 Mrs. Craig was so happy he was okay.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 After he sat for a while, Buddy tried his wings and soon he was flying again.\u00a0 He flew to find Betsy to tell her of his adventure and how he was saved by the humans.\u00a0 But Betsy was not impressed.\u00a0 “Where am I going to lay my eggs?” she cried.\u00a0 Buddy spent the rest of the day searching for a home and at last he found the perfect little house and he and Betsy set up housekeeping in it and raised a family of four little chicks.\u00a0 Also, Buddy went on a diet.<\/p>\n
\u00a0True story except for the parts I made up.\u00a0 The end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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