The Burgess Bird Book for Children 



go up, and I can go right around the trunk just as 

 easily and comfortably." Suiting action to the 

 word, Yank- Yank ran around the trunk of the 

 apple-tree just above Peter's head. When he 

 reappeared Peter had another question ready. 



"Do you live altogether on grubs and worms 

 and insects and their eggs ?" he asked. 



"I should say not!" exclaimed Yank- Yank. 

 "I like acorns and beechnuts and certain kinds of 

 seeds." 



"I don't see how such a little fellow as you can 

 eat such hard things as acorns and beechnuts," 

 protested Peter a little doubtfully. 



Yank- Yank laughed right out. "Sometime 

 when I see you over in the Green Forest I'll show 

 you," said he. " When I find a fat beechnut I take 

 it to a little crack in a tree that will just hold it ; 

 then with this stout bill of mine I crack the shell. 

 It really is quite easy when you know how. Crack- 

 ing a nut open that way is sometimes called hatch- 

 ing, and that is how I come by the name of Nut- 

 hatch. Hello ! There's Seep-Seep. I haven't seen 

 him since we were together up North. His home 

 was not far from mine." 



As Yank- Yank spoke, a little brown bird alighted 



at the very foot of the next tree. He was just a 



trifle bigger than Jenny Wren but not at all like 



Jenny, for while Jenny's tail usually is cocked up 



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