“It was only a boy who was
hunting birds’ eggs”

He listened.

Bodo hoped that his mother was coming.

But it was only a boy who was hunting birds’ eggs.

Bodo watched him climb among the branches.

He watched him suck the eggs that he found.

How he wished that he might find some eggs!

He began to look for some.

In a moment he saw a bird’s nest above him.

He climbed up the branch and peeped into the nest.