You have heard, I dare say, of the little birds that sometimes whisper good and bad tidings in the ear. Did you never hear your mother say, "Ah, a little bird told me?"This short story is an edited excerpt from an historic children's book called, The Little Messenger Birds, or The Chimes of the Silver Bells, written by Caroline Hyde Butler Laing and published in 1851. A delightful explanation of how Santa knows when little boys and girls have been bad or good, this sweet book is a tribute to a literary treasure and written for lovers of Christmas the world over.