144 BIRD HAUNTS AND NATURE MEMORIES 



hundred cases has lost it all. The representation, 

 whether drawing, painting, or photograph, is not faithful 

 according to the artist's skill in registering what his 

 eye sees, but in reproducing that mental picture which 

 exists in his very soul. Ability to portray jizz is a 

 psychic gift. 



Since the publication of the first edition, a friend pointed out that 

 in Webster's Dictionary both "gis" and "jis" are given as obsolete 

 varients of guise, and this seems to be the origin of the expressive 

 word. 



