His pride in his room was very great, but he had no idea how surprisingly beautiful it would appear to anyone who had not witnessed its growth and construction.
This morning Freckles walked straight to his case, unlocked it, and set his apparatus and dinner inside.

He planted a new specimen he had found close the trail, and, bringing his old scrap-bucket from the corner in which it was hidden, from a near-by pool he dipped water to pour over his carpet and flowers.
Then he took out the bird book, settled comfortably on a bench, and with a deep sigh of satisfaction turned to the section headed.

"V." Past "veery" and "vireo" he went, down the line until his finger, trembling with eagerness, stopped at "vulture." "'Great black California vulture,'" he read.
"Humph! This side the Rockies will do for us." "'Common turkey-buzzard.'" "Well, we ain't hunting common turkeys.

McLean said chickens, and what he says goes." "'Black vulture of the South.'" "Here we are arrived at once." Freckles' finger followed the line, and he read scraps aloud.
"'Common in the South.

Sometimes called Jim Crow.