Lesson 9 The Bluejay Tree

The Bluejay Tree

Some bluejays lived in an oak tree in a big yard.

They liked to eat acorns.

Every morning Father Bluejay said," Come, little bluejays.

Come and eat your breakfast.

Then they had acorns for breakfast.

They had acorns for dinner; too.

They had acorns three times a day.

Father Bluejay said, "There is nothing so good as acorns."

"Dear me!" said Mother Bluejay.

"Some day there may be no acorns.

Then what will we eat?

Father Bluejay said," I do not know.

But I will think about it, and then I will tell you.

Father Bluejay began to think.

He thought and thought.

At last he said," We get acorns from oak trees.

Oak trees grow from acorns.

We must plant acorns so that we will have oak trees.

We must plant them now.

So he called to Mother Bluejay and the four little bluejays.

"Who will help me?" he asked.

"We will!" said all the bluejays.

"Come along," said Father Bluejay.

All the bluejays flew down to the ground.

"Now see what I am going to do," said Father Bluejay.

He began to look under the trees for a big acorn.

Soon he found a very big one.

Then he made a hole in the ground and put the acorn into it.

"What are you doing, Father?" asked the little bluejays.

"Why do you hide the acorns in the ground?”

Father Bluejay said," I will tell you.

We get acorns from oak trees.

We must plant acorns so that oak trees will grow.

"Oh, oh!" cried the little bluejays.

"We want to plant acorns, too.

Then all the bluejays began to plant acorns.

Father Bluejay found a big acorn.

"This is a very fine acorn," he said.

I will plant a tree for Betty.

So he flew to the next house and planted the acorn in the front yard.

Betty saw Father Bluejay.

"Mother!" she cried." The bluejay has planted a tree for us."

By and by a little oak tree began to grow from the acorn.

Betty called it the Bluejay Tree.