176 A NATURALIST ON DESERT ISLANDS. 



And lastly, will he ever know what it means to get up 

 early, chmb to the woods, shoot eight parrots, and come 

 home hot and perspiring, to sit down and skin them ? 



We wonder ! But we can hardly think that the chance 

 sight of other " skins " in some one else's collection ; or 

 the chance note of a bird, caged or otherwise ; or the chance 

 remark of a friend, have not had the power, at some time 

 or other, to strike some such chord of pleasant recollections 

 of past experiences and oft-remembered sights : for if 

 they haven't, his ornithology, with all its array of mar- 

 shalled facts, must be to him as meat without salt. 



