HOW WILLIE DID HIS BEST TO MAKE A BIRD OF AGNES XXI.

CHAPTER XX. HOW WILLIE DID HIS BEST TO MAKE A BIRD OF AGNES.

"It was all to make a bird of mewasn't it?"

You have made a bird of me!

{165a} The only way, therefore, to put an end to all my doubts, was, I thought, to make a bird of myself, and fly up to heaven.

In there I made a bird-trap such as I had often used when a boy.

But, Nat, how can feathers make a bird lighter, when every one of them weighs something, and a bird has to carry them all?

They make a bird a little heavier than it would be without them.

Perhaps the small ones too, all over the body, are of some help in flight, because they make a bird smooth, so that it can cut through the air more easilyyou know they all lie one way, pointing backward from their roots to their tips.

"If you ever make a bird calendar at Orchard Farm, you may be able to write this Sparrow's name in every month of the year.