It was refreshing to hear that the Badgers had shown a proper spirit inthe matter, and I occasionally was grateful to them for having kept the right-of-way,as on most days I spent several hours in the pretty woods.

To return to the jay. In spite of the keeper's persecution, I knew thathe was there; every afternoon when I got up to look out of the windowbetween four and five o'clock, I heard from some quarter of the villagethat curious subdued, but far-reaching, scolding note he is accustomedto utter when his suspicions have been aroused.