WITH CARL OF THE HILL 15 



between September 15th and the end of the month. 

 At these times this great bird^ usually so shy and 

 difficult of approach_, may be secured with com- 

 parative ease when engaged in his grotesque ex- 

 ercises. And one of the best grounds for tjeder 

 in these parts is Carl's hill — or perhaps it would call 

 itself a mountain, for it is about two thousand feet 

 high. Over this hill Carl, because of his timber 

 dealings, has all the forest rights ; and as business 

 was taking him up that way he proposed that I 

 should go with him. I would go anywhere where 

 Carl would take me, but I was the more inclined to 

 the project because I should then see the rock on 1 

 which a pair of eagle owls breed every season, and a-- C.t, 



possibly see the birds themselves. I should also 

 have time to study the ways of the crested titmouse, 

 whose acquaintance I had made in Spain. So it was 

 arranged that we should start the following morning, 

 taking Nora, the brown mare, in the four-wheeled 

 cariole, and working on by forest ways till we hit 

 the landvagen or high road, should follow this up and 

 reach the home of a friend of Carl where the cariole 

 might wait. 



Then we went by the winding roads of the forest, 

 shooting what we could and stopping often to observe 



