48 
THE STRANGELAND BIRD LIFE 
Rubbing One Another's Necks 
rest, and it was not any time at all before some 
of the younger people began billing and cooing 
and rubbing one another’s neck. Now, the 
walls were not built much higher than their 
boot tops, so when Stormy saw them he said 
to the Emperor, “Why don’t they wait till the 
houses are built all the way up?’’ 
“Oh, that’s about as high as we build our 
houses,” said the Emperor. “They are only 
summer houses anyway, and that is our young 
folks custom.” 
Stormy was surprised at this as he had 
