The Lost Boy's Gift by Kimberly Willis Holt

Author:Kimberly Willis Holt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

THE ARRIVAL

THE NEXT MORNING, Tilda got up extra early, opened the drapes, stared at the bird feeder, and waited.

She realized she was waiting for Zip and Zap as much as she was waiting for chickadees. Then she saw something. It didn’t look like a bird. It didn’t look like a squirrel.

Tilda leaned closer to the window. It was a MOUSE!

His long, skinny nose fit through the grid and reached the birdseed.

Tilda raised the window and yelled, “This is not a mouse feeder! This is a bird feeder!”

The mouse, being a mouse, was scared. He took a nosedive into the ferns below … or did he faint into the ferns? Tilda wasn’t so sure. All she knew for certain was that she was taking this feeder back to the Fine Feathered Friends Shop. But just as she was about to move away from the window, she heard a chicka-dee-dee-dee. Two chickadees had found the bird feeder and were enjoying a meal so much that some of the seed dropped to the ground, where the little mouse and his two friends began having a feast of their own. Not a bit of seed was going to waste.

“Welcome back, chickadees!” she called out to them.

“Thank you, Tilda Butter,” the chickadees tweeted.

“Yes, thank you,” squeaked the mice.

“Now, that’s as it should be,” Tilda said. Then her gaze traveled to the birdhouse, where she now saw Zip, or maybe it was Zap, sticking his head out of the birdhouse’s hole. The brothers had found a new home.

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