Jim Crow came flying along and asked, “What seems to be the trouble, folks?”
“We have lost little Sheldon!” said Robert Robin.
“Where did you lose him?” asked Jim Crow.
“We lost him from where he isn’t!” said Robert Robin.
“You keep on looking where he isn’t, and I will go and look where he is!” said Jim Crow, as he flew away.
“He may be playing with those Nuthatch boys!” said Mrs. Robin.
All the robins kept searching the woods for little Sheldon, but Mister Jim Crow flew over to Brigg’s Brambles, and in a very short time he came hurrying back and called to Robert Robin:
“Little Sheldon is over in Brigg’s Brambles playing I-spy with Billy Nuthatch!”
“Thank you very much, Mister Crow!” said Robert Robin, as he sped over to Brigg’s Brambles to get little Sheldon.
Little Sheldon did not want to come away. He was playing I-spy with Billy Nuthatch, and it was his turn to go and hide, so Robert Robin said, “You may hide just this once, then we must go!”