The Burgess Bird Book for Children 



"Do you mean to say that he digs it himself?" 

 asked Peter. 



Grandfather Frog nodded. "If he doesn't, 

 Mrs. Kingfisher does," he replied. "Those big 

 bills of theirs are picks as well as fish spears. 

 They loosen the sand with those and scoop it out 

 with their feet. I've never seen the inside of 

 their home myself, but I'm told that their bedroom 

 is lined with fish bones. Perhaps you may call 

 that a nest, but I don't." 



"I'm going straight down the Laughing Brook 

 to look for that hole," declared Peter, and left in 

 such a hurry that he forgot to be polite enough 

 to say thank you to Grandfather Frog. 



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