"When you search for them look in the air, or on the shed-top, or about the haystack, or on the ground; for they seldom perch in trees."
"Why is that?" asked Rap. "I should think it would be warmer for them in the thick evergreens."
"They nest on the ground, and as they also gather their food there, are unused to large trees."
"Why don't they nest in trees up North?" asked Nat.
"For the same reason," laughed Olive, "that Simple Simon didn't catch a whale in the water pail! There are no trees where the Snowflake nests!"
The Snowflake
Length seven inches.
In summer snow-white, with black on the back, wings, and tail.
In winter wears a warm brown cloak, with black stripes, fastened with a brown collar, and a brown and white vest.
A Citizen of the North, travelling southward in snowstorms as far sometimes as Georgia.