“ FOR SOME YEARS A PAIR OF BARRED OWLS NESTED IN THE CAVITY OF AN OAK 
CHAPTER XVI 
OWL SECRETS 
The night-owl, hushed and tranced, hates 
Its cfy, and in the darkness zuaits. 
Stephen Henry Thayer. 
C LOSELY related to the sport of “hawking” is that of 
“ owling.” Indeed the latter is properly a department 
of the former, and in some measure is to be carried 
on along with it. It is really much the more difficult of the 
two, for the owl has the faculty and habit of so closely safe¬ 
guarding its secrets — its domestic affairs in particular — 
that, to the enthusiastic bird-lover or camera-hunter who 
