followed the cries over boggy ground and through the under- 
brush, she feared they thought that she, too, was an enemy. 
. It did not seem possible that the struggling birds could | 
pass through the branches of the dense wildwood, but they _ 
were out of sight in a moment, though she could hear the 
- screams and followed them at her best speed. They finally 
seemed to be located in one of two trees, which stood on each 
side of a big, white stump. As the woman peered up into 
: one tree, shaking the lower branches, the cries seemed to- : 
- come from the other, but, when she moved, they appeared to 
come from the one she had just left. She could see no hole in | 
the stump although she searched its white surface as the 
- sounds became fainter and fainter. When they stopped and a 
_ she had to return to the house she was sick at heart with her 
helplessness ; still she went back with a ladder to see if relief 
could yet be given. Then she found a hole under a mass of 
salal in the top of the stump, into which she thrust several 
_ sticks with no result and had to give up the search. 
Eleven days later she went again to this place and found 
a cast of the owl’s food, which was largely made up of faded 
bluish-gray feathers; and she felt that this was evidence _ 
that one Steller Jay had paid for the mischief and misdeeds - 
_ of his whole tribe. 
3 For nearly two weeks the calls of this little goblin 
among the owls could be heard in the early evening; and 
when she heard his “glook, glook, look, look,” she shivered | 
with the hidden birds of that oe. at his ghoulish | 
cries. | 
Lig 
