Watching the Brant Grow Big. 61 



end, no matter which end I camped on. 

 Thus the eel-grass in the distance is 

 always green for the brant. 



Four brant are coming this way. Are 

 they coming this way or will they choose 

 some other bar? They are winnowing 

 along low over the water and apparently 

 looking for companions. I throw up one 

 foot to attract their attention. They see 

 it. They slacken speed and "lift" for a 

 better view. Yes ! They see the decoys. 

 Look out now ! On they come and bigger 

 they grow. At first they were no larger 

 than pigeons, now they are as big as ducks, 

 and in a moment more they will look 

 as big as rocs, before my very eyes, and 

 right here with me all of us active in a 

 few cubic feet of the world. They have 

 ability to be elsewhere, but they won't use 

 their resources in time. They will be 

 right here in the midst of the trouble. 

 They call to the decoys. I answer. How 

 fine and black their shapely heads and 

 necks. What strong brown wings. They 

 are coming. Now they swerve to the 

 northward. There they circle back, show- 



