TENTH WEEK. 



THINK I have discovered the way to 

 keep peas from the birds. I tried the 

 scarecrow plan, in a way which I 

 thought would outwit the shrewdest bird. The 

 brain of the bird is not large ; but it is all con- 

 centrated on one object, and that is the attempt 

 to elude the devices of modern civilization which 

 injure his chances of food. I knew that, if I 

 put up a complete stuffed man, the bird would 

 detect the imitation at once : the perfection of 

 the thing would show him that it was a trick. 

 People always overdo the matter when they at- 

 tempt deception. I therefore hung some loose 

 garments, of a bright color, upon a rake-head, 



