WILDWOOD WAYS 



terrible stinge, whereof came ye horrible 

 paine and agonie of wch he cried out." 



Let go on the even tenor of his home- 

 building and home-keeping way, white- 

 face is another creature. One of his kind 

 used to make trips to and from my tent 

 all one summer, and we got to be good 

 neighbors. At first I viewed him with 

 distrust and was inclined to do him harm, 

 but he dodged my blow and without 

 deigning to notice it landed plump on a 

 house-fly that was rubbing his forelegs 

 together in congratulatory manner on 

 the tent roof. He had been mingling 

 with germs of superior standing, without 

 doubt, this housefly, but his happiness 

 over the success of the event was of 

 brief duration. There came from his 

 wings just one tenuous screech of alarm 

 followed by an ominous silence of as 

 brief duration. Then came the deep roar 

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