"Hullo, my kid!" I said. "I can see plainly enough what is in _your_mind. You know I'm watching a hole in the tree where a jackdaw has justgone in, and your intention is, when no one is about, to swarm up thetree and get the youthful birds."

"0h, no," he returned. "I'm not going to climb the tree and don't wantany youthful jackdaws. I always come to look because the birds breed inthat hole every year. Two years ago I had a bird from the nest, but Idon't want another."