Excerpt from The Story of Sir Henry Havelock But, alas! There's many a slip between the boy's hand and the bird's nest. Snap! Crash went the rotten branch; leaves, and twigs, and bits of broken wood went flying down helter - skelter through the green boughs beneath, a small boy very much mixed up in the middle of them; While some birds flew out with a shrill screech, laughing, perhaps, at the sorry plight of the bold little plunderer. Plump came something down on the turf, and then the something picked itself up and rubbed its elbows, and, perhaps, glanced a little ruefully at the ragged rent in its jacket; but it didn't how], or even seem much fright ened, and would, no doubt, have swarmed up the tree again immediately, had not the unlucky branch that offered the only chance of reaching the coveted nest broken short off close to the trunk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.