JIM’S BABIES 
the shell as daintily as Queen Victoria 
is said to have done. The male al- 
ways carried these in his beak, and I am 
sure the fish were, as a rule, several days 
dead. I watched him many hours at his 
fishing, and never but once saw him catch 
a live fish. Usually he preferred those 
cast up on the shore by the water. Frogs 
and snakes he caught in the marshy meadow, 
and I have seen him kill a snake that 
measured twenty-three inches long. But 
for our shouting, which compelled him to 
leave it, he would probably have carried 
Cis cOMismmate son ste nest. GA fish, 
which we forced him to drop from mid- 
air, fell into an open meadow, and, con- 
cealing ourselves at a distance, we watched 
him come back for it. This he did almost 
immediately, but being frightened a second 
time, gave up the search, and with many 
indignant “‘caws”’ flew back to the lake 
for another. 
Early in our acquaintance with “ Jim” 
a peculiar conflict took place, at sunrise one 
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