He went out to the end of a long branch and began to call--soft at first and then very loud, as if his throat would split before he ended.

It was a very big noise for such a little bird." "Did he seem to say '_Teacher_, TEACHER, TEACHER' ?" asked the Doctor, who knew John Burroughs very well.
"Yes, he kept calling exactly that way.

Then when he stopped, I looked for the hole in the ground where he came from.

I felt round a little, and then I lay down on the bank and looked up hill at the place to try if I could find it that way.

Then I saw a place where the grass and leaves were made into a sort of roof between the grass humps, and in the middle of this was a smooth round hole.