HONK! HONK! HONK! 
“Honk! Honk! Honk!” Buddy and Marylee heard this 
strange sound as they sat in the yard with Uncle Jack. 
“Honk! Honk! Honk!” It sounded a long way off, 
but it was coming closer. Buddy and Marylee looked all 
around, but they could see nothing. Then they saw Uncle 
Jack laughing. 
“Why are you laughing?” asked Marylee. 
“Because you are not looking in the right place,” said 
Uncle Jack. “You should look up into the sky.” 
“Honk! Honk! Honk!” They heard it again, and this 
time it was much nearer. 
“It’s somewhere up in the air,” said Marylee. 
“I never heard an airplane sound like that,” said 
Buddy. “Look, I see something in the bright part of the 
sky yonder. It looks just like a number of airplanes fly¬ 
ing together in a V shape. But they can’t be airplanes. 
“You are right, Buddy,” said Uncle Jack. “They are 
not airplanes. They are wild geese.” 
“Are they coming south for the winter?” asked Buddy. 
“That is just what they are doing,” replied Uncle 
Jack. “They always make a big V in the sky when sev¬ 
eral of them fly together.” 
“Isn’t it interesting that wild geese and other birds 
come south to spend the winter?” said Marylee. 
“Do the geese go very far north during the summer, 
Uncle Jack?” asked Buddy. 
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