104 HOW HE IS MADE 
Mr. Bolles made all sorts of noises to start up 
the heron and make him fly. First he imitated 
animal sounds. He quacked, and barked, and 
mewed, and brayed, and the bird looked inter- 
ested, but not at all alarmed. Then he whistled 
and sang, and at last talked plamly, but the 
bird only looked over his way, as if to see what 
new sort of beast was hidden there. 
No noise that he could make startled the 
heron in the least, until a twig snapped under 
his foot, when the bird was off like a shot. 
That sound he well knew was made by his most 
feared enemy, a man. 

