38 Bonasa Umbelles, Rex. 



young one flew, and that night she was 

 picked up on the sticky end of a toad's 

 long tongue and successfully swallowed. 

 Glory be to the toad ! 



In July the chickens began to feast upon 

 huckleberries, and when the August black- 

 berries were ripe they ate so many and 

 grew so fast that it soon became time for 

 them to throw off their short suits of soft 

 brownish chicken feathers and to take on 

 the finer colors and stout quills of real 

 grouse. With their change in dress came 

 a change in tastes, so that they no longer 

 cared for insects, but sought instead the 

 ripened seeds and berries and tender 

 leaves, unconscious of the fact that the 

 shooting season was near at hand and that 

 such diet was making them perilously fat 

 and luscious. 



As their wings became stronger and 

 their tails grew longer, pride began to ap- 

 pear in different members of the family 

 and quarrels were frequent among the 

 youngsters. They were disobedient, and 

 stayed away from home at night when- 

 ever it pleased them to do so. The mother 



