294 Wild Life in a Southern County. 
in which the jackdaw dodges the hens though alight- 
ing among them, and as it were for the moment 
surrounded, is very clever; and it is laughable to see 
the cool impudence with which he perches again 
on the rail, and looks down demurely, not a whit 
abashed, on the feathered housewife he has just been 
doing his best to rob. 
