Guidance

Do you believe that birds can be your best friends？你认为鸟类是你最好的朋友吗？

1 I once knew a man who was rich in his love for birds, and in their love for him. ①He lived in the midst of a grove full of all kinds of trees. He had no wife or children in his home.

2 He was an old man with gray beard, blue and kind eyes, and a voice that the birds loved. He showed me how they loved him. He put a crust of bread in his mouth, with one end of it out of his lips. Down they came like bees at a flower, and flew off with it crumb by crumb.

3 When they thought he slept too long in the morning, they would fly in and sit on the bedpost, and wake him up with their chirp.

4 They went with him to church.They sat in the trees, and sang to the same good God who cares for them as he does for us.

5 Thus the love and trust of birds were a joy to him all his life long; and such love and trust no boy or girl can fail to win with the same kind heart, voice, and eye that he had.

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