68 KNOWING BIRDS THROUGH STORIES 



Johnnie's feeling of security, for she had not been raised 

 there. 



The boy, in his interest, leaned out too far and this 

 mother saw him. "Quack, quack,'' clear and sharp as a 

 bugle's blast, and the flock rose like a flash and were gone I 

 Tracks about the corn pen showed, however, that Johnnie 

 brought his family home once more that night to feed at 

 his favorite dining place before they departed into the 

 great unknown. 



