16 WILD NATURE'S WAYS. 



SANDPIPER ON NEST. 



zigzagged warily to and fro at a respectful dis- 

 tance behind her nest, gradually growing bolder 

 and bolder, until at last she timidly ventured 

 home, and sat down. I was anxious not to do 

 anything calculated to destroy her growing con- 

 fidence in the harmlessness of the three-eyed 

 sheep innocently lying down to rest beside her 

 nest, so waited a long while before I made an 

 exposure upon her. At last I gave the air reser- 

 voir at my end of the pneumatic tube a vigorous 

 squeeze, and the sandpiper, leaving home with 

 suggestive haste, commenced to run agitatedly 

 back and forth across a piece of bare, storm- 

 swept, rock-strewn ground on my right, pro- 

 testing in her plaintive notes against something 

 that was evidently not to her liking. 



