The Burgess Bird Book for Children 



black, and where the orange color appeared it was 

 rather dull. She wasted no time in singing. 

 Almost instantly her sharp eyes spied a piece of 

 string caught in the bushes almost over Peter's 

 head. With a little cry of delight she flew down 

 and seized it. But the string was caught, and 

 though she tugged and pulled with all her might 

 she couldn't get it free. Goldy saw the trouble 

 she was having and cutting his song short, flew 

 down to help her. Together they pulled and 

 tugged and tugged and pulled, until they had to 

 stop to rest and get their breath. 



"We simply must have this piece of string," 

 said Mrs. Goldy. "I've been hunting everywhere 

 for a piece, and this is the first I've found. It is 

 just what we need to bind our nest fast to the 

 twigs. With this I won't have the least bit cf 

 fear that that nest will ever tear loose, no matter 

 how hard the wind blows." 



Once more they tugged and pulled and pulled 

 and tugged until at last they got it free, and Mrs. 

 Goldy flew away in triumph with the string in 

 her bill. Goldy himself followed. Peter watched 

 them fly to the tip of a long, swaying branch of a 

 big elm-tree up near Farmer Brown's house. He 

 could see something which looked like a bag 

 hanging there, and he knew that this must be the 

 nest. 



[881 



