200 A BUSY CITY AND THOROUGHFARE, 



observing landmarks — the particular heights and 

 shapes of certain young white birches that grow 

 along the way by her habitation ? 



To answer these questions I have determined to 

 try a few experiments. Capturing one in a wide- 

 mouthed vial as she came from her home, I carried 

 her carefully in a dark pocket, at the distance of 

 three hundred yards and set her free. Although 

 the prison door was turned away from her home, 

 she did not attempt to fly farther off, but quickly 

 ascended in an oblique direction and toward the 

 place from which we had started and, of course, 

 was instantly lost to sight. Immediately retracing 

 my steps I was soon stationed at her doorway, 

 which had been previously marked, awaiting her 

 return. In twenty minutes she was back, humming 

 on a high key, and after making a few wild flour- 

 ishes around me, which plainly indicated a dis- 

 turbed state of mind, she flew to her door with her 

 baskets well filled with bread. 



I then caught another that seemed to be un- 

 usually acute and sharp-sighted, and carried her 

 off blindfolded a quarter of a mile. In just an 

 hour she returned, not showing so much excite- 

 ment, as if she had half-forgotten her adventure. 



Thinking perhaps the path chosen was that 



