BIRDS OF THE WAVE AND WOODLAND 



to feed it. None 

 of us stirred, and, as 

 soon as the meal 

 was finished, the 

 old bird hopped up 

 to an overhano-incr 

 branch, the young 

 one following, and 

 so up into the tree, 

 and from that one 

 to the next, and the 

 next, till, in a few 

 minutes, it had 

 travelled along the 

 tree-tops a hundred 

 yards away. Now, 

 the old birds must 

 have been waiting 

 about the house all 

 the two days, for it 

 is hardly likely that 

 the taking out of 

 the young one on 

 to the lawn could 



"The plovers scatter o'er the heath" have accidentally 



coincided with the coming of the old one to the same spot. 



