A journey to nature . nged omens. As soon as I understood that 11 A JOURNEY TO NATURE the stranger had flapped in at the open windowwhere the netting was torn and was making allthis disturbance because he did not know enoughto flap out again, I got up and tried to assist fought me bill and claw and knocked downthe photograph that was tacked over the tired of it, I went back to bed. WhenI woke up in the morning, there he sat on thesill against the lower half of the closed sash,rather weak and dishevelled from overexertion,and looking reproachfully at me as if I had beenthe
A journey to nature . nged omens. As soon as I understood that 11 A JOURNEY TO NATURE the stranger had flapped in at the open windowwhere the netting was torn and was making allthis disturbance because he did not know enoughto flap out again, I got up and tried to assist fought me bill and claw and knocked downthe photograph that was tacked over the tired of it, I went back to bed. WhenI woke up in the morning, there he sat on thesill against the lower half of the closed sash,rather weak and dishevelled from overexertion,and looking reproachfully at me as if I had beenthe cause of it all; whereupon I made up mymind it was a female bird, and having caught it,I brought it to the open sash to let it sail away,for which act of mercy it nipped me viciously inthe thumb. As I was looking after it, I saw Griselle com-ing over the hill like — well, like a stave of Mil-tons LAllegro reciting itself But when Charlie got up, the first thing hesaid was, Why, somebodys knocked downmothers 78
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