EASY-CHAIR MEMORIES 77 



Gilbert White, a hundred years later than 

 Walton, believed that many swifts, swallows, 

 and martins hybernated in holes and the banks 

 of rivers, under the water, or elsewhere. I am 

 not aware of any hybernated swallows having 

 been actually discovered in recent years. I 

 may say that on a hot day early in April this 

 year, 1911, I saw a solitary swift and a pair of 

 swallows, long before the bulk of them were 

 due from the South, and I am quite of opinion 

 that these birds must have been aroused by the 

 hot sun out of a long winter's sleep in the 

 neighbourhood, but hardly from " mudd " under 

 water more likely from hollow trees or " clay 

 caves." 



C.ESAR 



Whene'er I take my walks abroad I am, as 

 a rule, accompanied by a dog; his name is 

 Caesar. Talk about reasoning in animals 

 why, Caesar has as much knowledge and 

 observation crammed into his solitary eye as 

 many an unfeathered biped has in his whole 

 carcase. The only thing he can not do is to 

 talk English he understands it thoroughly. 

 He is what is called a Dachshund. His coat 



