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He has a string tied to the stick, and keeps 
pulling it ; so that the pigeons flutter up and 
down, and seem as if they were alighting. 
The flock overhead are deceived, and think 
they may alight too, especially as they see 
the ground is strewed with com. But this is 
about the worst thing they can do; for no 
sooner have they settled, and begun to pick 
up the corn, than the fowler draws his net 
over i.hem, and takes them prison^^. 
CHAPTER ivf ^ C 
BEING LOST IN THE FC^IEST. /' ; 
V " '^^ 
Young people always like to hear adt^^ntures ; 
and I cannot do better than devote this chap- 
ter to the true story of a soldier, who was lost 
for some days in one of the forests of Ceylon. 
It will give you an idea of what the interior 
of the forest is ; for the poor man, after his 
rescue, described very vividly a few of its 
scenes, and of its inhabitants, such as he little 
desired ever to have witnessed.* 
* For the substance of t^is narrative we are indebted to Lieutenant 
Campbell's " Ceylon." 
