But Mr Macmichael soon satisfied him, showing him how strong and firm Willie had made every part of it.
The next evening, Willie went on with his plan, which was to make a way for Bird Agnes from one tree to another over the whole of the clump.

It took him many evenings, however, to complete it, and a good many more to construct in the elm tree a thin wooden house cunningly perched upon several of the strongest boughs and branches.

He called it Bird Agnes's Nest.

It had doors and windows, and several stories in it, only the upper stories did not rest on the lower, but upon higher branches of the tree.

To two of these he made stairs, and a rope-ladder to a third.