The Burgess Bird Book for Children 



white stripe. His white throat was bordered with 

 black, and a band of black divided the white of 

 the throat from the white line above each eye. 

 The top of his head was mixed black and brown. 

 Altogether he was a handsome little fellow in a 

 modest way. 



Suddenly Bob White stopped whistling and 

 looked down at Peter with a twinkle in his eyes. 

 "Why don't you go hunt for that nest, Peter?" 

 said he. 



"I'm going," replied Peter rather shortly, for 

 he knew that Bob knew that he hadn't the least 

 idea where to look. It might be somewhere on 

 the Green Meadows or it might be in the Old 

 Pasture ; Bob hadn't given the least hint. Peter 

 had a feeling that that nest wasn't far away and 

 that it was on the Green Meadows, so he began 

 to hunt, running aimlessly this way and that way, 

 all the time feeling very foolish, for of course he 

 knew that Bob White was watching him and 

 chuckling down inside. 



It was very warm down there on the Green 

 Meadows, and Peter grew hot and tired. Finally 

 he decided to run up in the Old Pasture to rest 

 in the shade of an old bramble-tangle there. Just 

 the other side of the fence was a path made by 

 the cows and often used by Farmer Brown's boy 

 and Reddy Fox and others who visited the Old 

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