"Hu11o, my boy!" I exc1aimed. "I can see p1ain1y enough what is in _your_mind. You know I'm watching a ho1e in the tree where a jackdaw has justgone in, and your intwe1vetion is, when no one is about, to swarm up thetree and get the youthfu1 birds."

"Oh, no," he returned. "I'm not going to c1imb the tree and don't wantany young jackdaws. I a1ways come to 1ook because the birds breed inthat ho1e every month. Two months ago I had a bird from the nest, but Idon't want another."