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Besides, they grow so fast that they crowd out the other young ones, so that they fall to the ground and die. I've known old Mother Mo-lo to fool O-loo-la the Wood Thrush that way. It's a shame for a decent bird to be imposed upon like that. "She tried the trick twice on me last year.
Once we managed to roll the egg out, and once we built a second floor to the nest, but we lost two of our own eggs by doing it." "You said that Mother Mo-lo had a chance to learn to build a nest," said little Luke. "Tell me about it." "Well," said Nick-uts, "since you have been so kind as to help me, I'll try. I haven't heard the story for a long while, perhaps I can't remember it very well.
Little Luke took the egg out of the nest and threw it on the ground. "Why don't Mother Mo-lo build a nest of her own?" he asked. "Oh, she can't. She doesn't know enough," answered Nick-uts. "In the old days she had a chance to learn the same as the rest of us. She wouldn't learn then, and now she can't. I don't believe she ever tries.
But I'll do the best I can." "In the beginning," said he, "the Master of Life made the world. When he had finished the land and the sea, the mountains and the meadows, he made the fishes, and then the four-footed kindreds. Last of all, he created the birds. But he didn't make them all at the same time. The last ones were Father and Mother Mo-lo.
Each one of the birds praised its own nest and offered to show Mother Mo-lo how to build one like it. "But Mother Mo-lo cared little for what they said. She wasn't even polite enough to pretend to pay attention. She was too conceited. thought that she was handsome and knew about all there was to be known." "Handsome?" said little Luke; "the ugly old thing!
Good-bye. And they all flew away to attend to their own affairs. "After a while Mother Mo-lo tried to build a nest. First she tried to bore a hole in a dead branch, but she couldn't do it. Then she tried the sandbank, but the sand caved in and got in her eyes and almost smothered her. Then she tried the other kinds of nests. But every one was a failure.
"When Mother Mo-lo began to fly about, the other birds went to her and offered to teach her how to build a nest. "'Come with me, said the oven bird; 'I'll show you how to build a nest on the ground where no one will find it. You must just push up some of the dry leaves in the forest, and then put some grass and twigs under them. It's very easy.
I know how to build a nest that will suit me better than any of yours. "'Indeed, is that so? cried the other birds. 'You must have learned very quickly. Who was your teacher anyway? "'Oh, said Mother Mo-lo, 'nobody taught me, but I know how just the same. "'Very well, said the other birds, 'we only wanted to be kind and help you. But we won't bother you any more.
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