40 WITH THE WOODLANDERS. 



As to the bats, they are best left alone. A 

 quaint-looking, long-legged individual I know, who 

 has more practical information about life, furred 

 and feathered, than most folks have, because, as 

 he says, " I've paid for it, dear boy paid for it," 

 will sometimes, when I come across him, tap his 

 unusually large nose and say, " Bats overhead, in 

 that hole I can smell 'em." At this I am apt to 

 walk on, for my own scent is keen. " Come back, 

 my boy, and see me hustle 'em out of it," he cried 

 one day. I went back, and he got the lot out. I 

 have never stopped to witness a bat-rout since. 



