178 THE STORY OF A BIRD LOVER 



" Why, Scaat, you-all don't know nuthin' 'bout 

 it. All them ther fellers in Washington dew is 

 to run a printin' press, an' they kin jest as well 

 print a hundred million as twenty million dollars 

 a month. I don't see why they don't pay off the 

 whole debt in one printin'; coz they could easy 

 enuf." 



We remained in Clearwater until some time 

 late in March, and left the place and the friends 

 we had made with regret. Mr. Devereux, my 

 assistant, stayed in the interests of the museum 

 some two months longer. The result of our 

 mutual work during that winter is set forth in 

 detail in a paper cited in the bibliography. 



