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It had a long curved beak

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It had a long curved beak.jpg The wild geese had come north, but this fact alone was not proof that winter had goneThumbnailsAmerican Indian Picture-WritingThe wild geese had come north, but this fact alone was not proof that winter had goneThumbnailsAmerican Indian Picture-WritingThe wild geese had come north, but this fact alone was not proof that winter had goneThumbnailsAmerican Indian Picture-WritingThe wild geese had come north, but this fact alone was not proof that winter had goneThumbnailsAmerican Indian Picture-Writing

One morning, having come to the field quite early, I grew tired of my play before my grandmother had ended her work. “I want to go home,” I begged, and I began to cry. Just then a strange bird flew into the field. It had a long curved beak, and made a queer cry, cur-lew, cur-lew.

I stopped weeping. My grandmother laughed.

“That is a curlew,” she said.