NESTS AND NESTLINGS. 45 



will. Anyhow we'll wait and see !" And they did wait, so 

 long that they might have been shot or even knocked down 

 with a stone. But youth is always cocksure. On the other 

 hand man's behaviour is, alas! rightly measured by the dread 

 his presence evokes. Not altogether flattering to us, is it? 

 I find myself, in this connexion, placed on exactly the same 

 level as a cat! 



