Making New Friends 33 



No doubt there was mutual satisfaction in the inspection 

 we gave each other; at least, I felt well satisfied with 

 having heard the song of so shy a bird. His stay in my 

 neighborhood lasted only a few days; then he left as 

 mysteriously as he had come, without even the courtesy 

 of a good-bye. He went to his summer home in the 

 North, and I did not see him again until the next spring, 

 just twelve months later almost to the day. 



