258 Old Stories
other two roads went along, I don’t know how far; but they never come to nothin’, and they never got married at all.
“sometime”
One spring day Mr. and Mrs. Robin were talking over plans for nest-building. An old apple-tree near a farmhouse had been their home for many years past.
“Better settle down in the same old tree,” said Mr. Robin. “There isn’t another in the neighborhood has crotches to equal it.”
“I know it,” replied Mrs. Robin; “but the man who lives in the farmhouse says he’s going to build a barn right here, and our tree would have to come down.”
“When did he say he was going to build it?” asked Mr. Robin.
“He didn‘t say just when,” Mrs. Robin answered; “he said ‘sometime,’”
“Oh, well,” remarked Mr. Robin, “we can have our nest here all right then;” and they began to build it in a crotch of the old apple-tree that very day.
