The Burgess Bird Book for Children 



"What has the snow to do with it?" demanded 

 Peter. 



"Only that I like the snow and I like cold 

 weather. When the snow begins to disappear, I 

 just naturally fly back farther north," replied Snow- 

 flake. "It isn't that I don't like bare ground, 

 because I do, and I'm always glad when the snow 

 is blown off in places so that I can hunt for seeds on 

 the ground. But when the snow begins to melt 

 everywhere I feel uneasy. I can't understand how 

 folks can be contented where there is no snow and 

 ice. You don't catch me going 'way down south. 

 No, siree, you don't catch me going 'way down 

 south. Why, when the nesting season comes 

 around, I chase Jack Frost clear 'way up to where 

 he spends the summer. I nest 'way up on the shore 

 of the Polar Sea, but of course you don't know 

 where that is, Peter Rabbit." 



"If you are so fond of the cold in the Far North, 

 the snow and the ice, what did you come south at 

 all for ? Why don't you stay up there all the year 

 around ?" demanded Peter. 



"Because, Peter," replied Snowflake, twittering 

 merrily, "like everybody else, I have to eat in order 

 to live. When you see me down here you may 

 know that the snows up north are so deep that they 

 have covered all the seeds. I always keep a 

 weather eye out, as the saying is, and the minute 

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