family scatters, each one to take care of him- 

 self, leaving the mother free to raise another 

 brood. At such times they travel widely in 

 search of favorite food and come often into 

 the farm-yards, spending half the night about 

 the drains and stables while the house is still, 

 and vanishing quickly at the first alarm ; so 

 that Whitooweek is frequently a regular visitor 

 in places where he is never seen or suspected. 

 In his fondness for earthworms Whitoo- 

 week long ago learned some things that a 

 man goes all his life without discovering, 

 namely, that it is much easier and simpler 

 to pick up worms than to dig for them. 

 When a boy has to dig bait, as the price of 

 going fishing with his elders, he will often 

 spend half a day, in dry weather, working 

 hard with very small results; for the worms 

 are deep in the earth at such times and can 

 be found only in favored places. Meanwhile 

 the father, who has sent his boy out to dig, 

 will spend a pleasant hour after supper in 

 watering his green lawn. The worms begin 

 to work their way up to the surface at the 

 first patter of water-drops, and by midnight 



