And the Yeah, Hello and welcome back everyone to 100 one classic short stories and tales.

Last month we did a story by Clara Dillingham Pearson called The Night Moth with

the Crooked Feeler and it received such a great response from you that we decided

to follow up today with a second story from her collections and we hope you enjoy it.

Be sure to let us know if you would like more. And now the young blue jay who is not brave enough to be

afraid by Clara Dillingham Pearson. Everybody who is acquainted with the blue j Jays knows that they're a very brave family.

That's the best thing you can say about them.

To be sure, they dress very handsomely, and there is no prettier sight on a fine winter morning than a flock of

blue jays flitting from branch to branch dining off the acorns on the oak trees and cocking

their crested heads on one side as they look over the country.

They are great talkers then, and are always telling each other just what to do, yet none of them

ever do what they are told to.

So they might just as well stop giving advice.

The other people of the forest do not like the Blue Jays at all, and if one of them gets

into trouble, they will not help him out.

This always has been so and it always will be so. If it could be winter all the time the Blue Jays could be liked well enough, for in cold weather they eat seeds and nuts and do not quarrel so much with others.

It is in the summer that they become bad neighbors.

Then they live in the thickest part of the woods and raise families of tiny fuzzy babies

in their great coarse nest.

It is then too that they change their beautiful coats and while the old feathers are dropping off and the new ones are growing, they are not at all pretty.

Oh, then is the time to beware of the Blue Jays.

They do very little talking during the summer, and the forest people do not know when they

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