Olive has been telling us about them, Uncle Roy, and so of course the Goldies do heaps of good by eating them.

If they eat those weed-seeds and do not need insects they can live here all winter--can't they, uncle ?" "Certainly; they gather in flocks after their nesting-time, which you see is very late.

Then the males shed their bright-yellow feathers, and look exactly like their wives and children.

Still, they make a merry party flying about in the garden and field edges, where the composite flowers have left them food, whispering and giggling all day long--even singing merrily now and then.

They often have hard times in winter, and when I am here at the Farm I always scatter canary seed on the snow for them." "What is a com-pos-ite flower ?" asked Dodo.
"A kind of flower which has a great many little blossoms crowded together in a bunch, so that they look like one big flower--such as a dandelion, thistle, or sunflower.