202 BEAUTIFUL BERDS 
only a hundred eyes, how is it that there are two 
hundred, or more, in the wings of the Argus Pheasant, 
to say nothing of those in the tail of the peacock? 
That shows, / think, quite clearly that he must, really, 
have had a great many more; and so, now, when 
people talk to you of Argus and his hundred eyes, 
you can say, “‘A hundred, indeed! Why, he must 
have had shree hundred at the very least.” And 
then you can tell them why. 
