64 THE MOUNTAINS 



to be in "Drew Forest." There, in that 

 veritable bird-refuge, were swifts by the 

 hundred. At times, on the early edge of 

 a fair summer night, when the wood 

 thrushes were fluting their antiphonal 

 vespers, the sky above the campus trees 

 was thronged with these amazing birds, 

 in their prodigious aerial performance 

 now gliding, with wings crescent-curved; 

 now moving in daring slants, at constantly 

 changing angles; now describing long- 

 sweeping and up-rising curves; now com- 

 bining, perhaps a score together, in an 

 intricate pattern of criss-cross weaving; 

 and now dashing at one another, and miss- 

 ing collision and general smash-up by no 

 visible margin whatever. 



DISPOSITION 



Birds have a group disposition just as 

 surely as men have a group temperament. 

 There is as much temperamental differ- 

 ence between a bobolink and a bronzed 



