AMONGS?E THE ISLAND BIRDS. EARLY MAY 11 
for a snap-shot! But turn and swing the 
boat as best we might, I could not get the 
bird or yet the island right. And when I 
V: THE ENTRANCE TO THE SWANS’ HoME:’ ‘° THAT 
SPOT JUST WHERE THE SEDGES BREAK.’ 
did, the sun was wrong. Meantime, the 
swan had thought it best to swim away 
with quick and jerky strokes of his great 
then propel the massive bird—a dead weight of some 
twenty pounds or more, 
