238 BIRD LIFE GLIMPSES 



another, both clinging there in the very same 

 place and position you had left them in over- 

 night ! Then to watch them off; and returning, 

 once more, on the same afternoon, well in time, to 

 see if they came back to the same trees, or not ! 

 To be able to do this — and a few other things of 

 this sort — without a world of cares to distract one — 



" Ah, what a Hfe were this ! how sweet ! how lovely ! " 



