H4 What Birds Have Done With Me 



and "Whitey," the rather common members of a 

 rather uncommon community. Of course she 

 knew that her husband had done his country some 

 service and that was all there was about it. 

 "Romeo" and "Juliet" were very much in evi- 

 dence, and while they had cut out the balcony 

 scene altogether, they gave us many a veranda 

 scene, which is the next thing, and even at this 

 late day I feel it perfectly right to tell the truth 

 (and I have a witness who will also swear to it) 

 throughout the entire veranda scene, they were 

 always eating peanuts. He was some lover but 

 with a trifle too much assurance, and while we 

 never did, we were always fearful of hearing the 

 word universal used in connection with his ability 

 to do a single balcony scene. Anyway, it's the 

 good husband that counts in the journey of the 

 years rather than the great lover. In a quiet and 

 harmless way there were reasons for suspecting 

 "Juliet" of being a bit flirtatious, which may have 

 given "Romeo" cause for being too ready to 

 crowd his attentions upon strangers on short no- 

 tice. However this may be, before the first sea- 

 son was over, matrons were calling him Mr. Im- 

 pudence and the name stuck, without any baptis- 

 mal service. 



It is a fact, though I question if well known, 

 that a raw peanut shelled and sliced across, is to 

 a winter bird what candy is to a child. In a 



