" Seems to act as timekeeper to the dueks " 



and have often seen them 

 He crouched along the 

 bouo-hs, cowerino- so close 

 that one day, going to 

 sling a hammock, I nearly 

 put my hand upon the bird. 



It slipped off the bough and, with a flight like a wood- 

 cock's, sawing from right to left, it swooped under some 

 gooseberry-bushes and vanished from sight. In the day- 



