142 i^ACT AGAINST FICTION. 



people say, with one, two, or three, as the case 

 may be, and all that time he is a slave to any 

 momentary whim or passion for the pairs of others 

 that may seize him. Not so the wood-drake, he 

 owns no passion but for the one thing he loves, 

 and if that is taken from him, he will not, for 

 the season certainly, and very likely never, pair 

 again. 



