-lsb- illustration: a band of workmen, who were sawing down a toadstool, rushed away, leaving their tools behind them -rsb- despairing of the fairies, he resolved to consult the birds, but now he remembered, as an odd thing, that all the birds on the weeping-beech had flown away when he alighted on it, and though this had not troubled him at the time, he saw its meaning now.