224 Provoking birds. Crocodiles. Chapt. 



and consequent exposure to the elements, have simi 

 seduced his weather side of its caloric, and conv 

 him that amadavat No. 1 was not such a fool i 

 looked after all, so he too jumps up impulsively, sci 

 along the hacks of his fellows, and tucks himself i 

 the middle. And so the tucking in process goes < 

 one outsider after another cools down, and wants a y 

 place in the middle of the row, till it is too prove 

 to look at any longer. Fancy fellows with long < 

 running over your head all night long at intervals 

 quarter of an hour, and your heing blandly askec 

 next morning if you "had passed a pleasant night! 

 would be too exasperating. But that is. just what ' 

 amadavats do every night of their lives. And th 

 just what several of my ideas want to do, they ke< 

 wanting to tuck themselves in, in the wrong places. 

 I cannot stand that, so these amadavatish ideas are ; 

 ted a perch to themselves, whereon to jostle, and wri 

 and tuck themselves in higgledy-piggledy, just as 

 like. Between ourselves I verily believe that, even 

 they have been arranged for the night by the pri 

 they will fidget about and change their places. 1 1 

 fore disclaim all responsibity for their order. 



Crocodiles are very shy, and not to be caught ei 

 by night line. A simple way of setting this is to j 

 bamboo of full thickness, and ten or twelve feet in le: 

 To one end of it tie a hook with only a foot of lin 

 tween hook and bamboo. The line should not be a s 

 cord which the crocodile can bite in two, but fiftee 



