UP WITH THE LARK.

Waikato Times, Volume 115, Issue 19272, 2 June 1934, Page 15 (Supplement)

UP WITH THE LARK.

The birds were holding their annual summer meeting, and what ft chirping, chirruping crowing and cawing there was, to be sure! It all came about because the lark told the lazy cuckoo he should get out of bed a bit earlier In the morning. The ouekoo had got Into such a rage at this that he oouldn’t cuckoo for stuttering, and very soon all the others had joined In the vjuarrel. The old barn owl was In the chair, and shuffling about uneasily, he shouted for order, and told 'them that as he often stayed up all night he would .watch next morning and find out who were the earliest risers. Next morning as the first faint etreaks of dawn were oolouring the eastern sky, the wise old owl peeped out from his hole In the elm bole and waited. All was- very quifet, and he could hear nothing but the patient cattle munching In the fields below. All at onoe the ohuroh dock chimed a quarter to three, and as If It had been an alarm clook, up shot the lark, with his morning song to meet the sun. This roused the cuckoo and ever after that he was up with the lark (Copied).—Sent by VOILA NEWTON.