The Tale of Jolly Robin

Of course, there was a time, once, when Jolly Robin was just a nestlinghimself. With two brothers and one sister-all of them, like him, much spottedwith black-he lived in a house in one of Farmer Green’s apple trees. The house was made of grass and leaves, plastered on the inside with mud, andlined with softer, finer grass, which his mother had chosen with the greatestcare...Arthur Scott Bailey was an American writer. He was the author of more than forty children’s books. He was born in St. Albans, Vermont, United States, the second child of Winfield Scott Bailey and Harriet Sarah Goodhue.