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"The Tale of Rusty Wren," is from the neat, frolicsome series of illustrated animal stories called "Tuck-Me-In Tales."
Now, Rusty Wren had found—and shown to his wife—a hollow apple tree and a hole in a fence-rail, either of which he thought would make a pleasant place in which to live.
But since the little couple were house wrens, Rusty’s wife said she thought that they oughtn’t to be so far from the farmhouse.
“Why not build our nest behind one of the shutters?” she suggested.
But Rusty shook his head quickly—and with decision.
“That won’t do,” said he. “Somebody might come to the window and close the shutter; and then our nest would fall to the ground. And if we happened to have six or eight eggs in it, you know you wouldn’t like that very well.”
