Gus wished he knew how he had ever been born. All Mr. Oakbert and Ethel could ascertain was that an egg had somehow appeared in the bird meadow one day. Oakbert had been sure it would never hatch, but Ethel felt a spark in it. So she incubated the egg, and soon out popped a tiny Gus.

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He wasn’t tiny for long. He now rivaled the biggest birds on Earth, but still, who was he? How did he get here? Gus loved his found family. He just wanted to know where he came from. Was that so much to ask?