OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



perfect accuracy, and are insultingly care- 

 less in their attitude towards her. There is 

 one robin in particular, who is the special 

 object of the dog's contempt, and who 

 returns the sentiment in kind. When 

 Tinkie the dog sees this robin absorbed 

 in pulling a fat angle worm out of the lawn, 

 she begins to prowl in a straight, stealthy 

 line towards him, and endeavours to fasci- 

 nate him with a basilisk stare, a la cat. 

 Robin, meantime, cocks a scornful eye at 

 the dog and pays no further attention to 

 her, but continues his interesting occupation. 

 Presently Tinkie who is not much bigger 

 than the bird decides that the psychological 

 moment has arrived, and gives what is in- 

 tended for an annihilating pounce. But 

 long before she alights upon her intended 

 prey Robin has flown upward to a neigh- 

 bouring branch, and sits there disdainfully 

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