"See, he is not a bit afraid." "How on earth did you do it ?" asked Miss Farr when the shy, brown baby had been duly welcomed.

The whistler was visibly vain.
"Oh, it's quite simple.

I merely talked to him in his own language." "I see that.

But where did you learn the language ?" "Well, a fellow taught me that--man I met at Ypres.

He could have whistled back the dodo, I think.