82 THE BROOK BOOK 



As if preening itself, it bent the body gracefully 

 and thrust the filaments high in air, suggesting 

 the attitude of a very proud and strutting Bantam 

 rooster. We laughed at what seemed to us a 

 rather premature assumption of importance. When 

 we looked again it was gone. Away it rode on 

 the freshening breeze to join others of its kind. 



What became of it ? Did it return that night 

 to whirl with myriads of its fellows in the mad 

 dance before the lights in the hotel veranda? 



