82 THE BROOK BOOK 



As if preening itself, it bent the body gracefully 

 and thrust the filaments high in air, suggesting 

 the attitude of a very proud and strutting Bantam 

 rooster. We laughed at what seemed to us a 

 rather premature assumption of importance. When 

 we looked again it was gone. Away it rode on 

 the freshening breeze to join others of its kind. 



What became of it? Did it return that night 

 to whirl with myriads of its fellows in the mad 

 dance before the lights in the hotel veranda? 



