54 Clear Skies and Cloudy. 



rid myself of the idea that he was right. It 

 seems so rational an interpretation of their wild 

 cries as they are playing about the river, for 

 surely not all their time is now spent in search- 

 ing for food. The true inwardness of all corvine 

 ways is not yet within our reach ; but when they 

 are assembled as I saw them to-day and discus- 

 sion is conducted decently and in order, then it 

 is that the intelligence of these birds stands out 

 quite unmistakably. 



