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English Fairy Tales
on saying its silly cry: "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o."
At last the magpie heard this just as she was putting a twig across. So she said: "One's enough."
But the turtle-dove kept on saying: "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o."
Then the magpie got angry and said: "One's enough, I tell you."
Still the turtle-dove cried: "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o."
At last, and at last, the magpie looked up and saw nobody near her but the silly turtle-dove, and then she got rarely angry and flew away, and refused to tell the birds how to build nests again. And that is why different birds build their nests differently.
