How the First Baby Cuckoo 
slender, long red legs, as it fed in 
the shallow water ; while hundreds and 
thousands of other smaller birds ran 
about over the shining muddy banks, 
and waded about at the edge of the 
water. Pelicans were there in numbers, 
fishing, with their curious pouch-nets 
under their big beaks, or sitting in rows 
at the water’s edge, digesting solemnly 
their last meal. 
Everything was so different from the 
scenes they had left behind them, and so 
fresh, that they enjoyed it all immensely. 
There was nothing to do but to fly about 
and feed, and have a good holiday. 
And thus they spent several months ; 
until presently they began to have 
strangely dissatisfied feelings, and to be 
rather tired of the hot sun, getting 
hotter and hotter every day, and they 
