They lay four eggs, very big at one end and peaked at the other, and put them in the nest with the pointed ends together in the middle, to take up less room; and they're sandy-colored, spotted all over.

They hang about here all summer.

We call them 'teeters' because they always tip up their tails and bob so when they run.

They whistle like this, 'tweet-weet--tweet-weet!' [Illustration: Wilson's Snipe.] "There's another mite of a Sandpiper that comes around here late every summer, though it nests way up north.

It is the very littlest of all, not bigger than a Sparrow, so pretty and innocent-looking that it ought to go with Singing Birds and never be shot for food.