predicted) we were eating breakfast by the 



fire, when he lit on the ground close by, and 



^///oo/eeF turned his head sidewise to look at us curi- 



^jCiffk ously. I tossed him a big crumb, which 



V6/ce ™^^^ ^™ ^^'^ away m fright; but when he 



thought we were not looking he stole back, 



touched, tasted, ate the whole of it. And 



when I threw him another crumb, he hopped 



to meet it. 



After that he came regularly to meals, and 

 would look critically over the tin plate which 

 I placed at my feet, and pick and choose 

 daintily from the cracker and trout and 

 bacon and porridge which I offered him. 

 Soon he began to take bits away with him, 

 and I could hear him, just inside the fringe 

 of underbrush, persuading his mate to come 

 too and share his plate. But she was much 

 shyer than he ; it was several days before I 

 noticed her flitting in and out of the shadowy 

 underbrush ; and when I tossed her the first 

 crumb, she flew away in a terrible fright. 

 Gradually, however, Killooleet persuaded her 

 that we were kindly, and she came often to 

 meals; but she would never come near, to 



