He then goes out into the garden and shoots at the nest that the birds have barely saved.
The sky turns dark and stormy as the birds assemble and wail in mourning for the chick's funeral, completing it with pallbearers and a grave digger.
As the birds prepare to lower the chick into its grave, it begins raining.
The young chick miraculously comes back to life, the birds resume to their cheerful singing, the sky clears, and the boy, having learned this lesson, breaks his air rifle into pieces and pulls out a box of bird seeds for all the birds to enjoy.
The chick and the boy share a seed as the cartoon ends.