Seeing him thus yield the point at issue, his mate was not going to fight it out alone.

She, too, turned her back with ostentatious indifference upon her rude guests, and went out and sat on the top of the hillock to let her feelings calm down.

The pair of owls, well satisfied to have forced themselves upon the Little Villager's hospitality, huddled together in their own corner, and resumed the nap which had been so unpleasantly interrupted in their previous residence." "What was it that interrupted ?" broke in the Child, glad that it was not he that could be accused of it, _that_ time.

"What was it that drove them out of their own burrow in such a hurry ?" "It was a big rattlesnake," answered Uncle Andy, quite politely, remembering that he himself had recently been guilty of an interruption.

"I ought to have explained that before, but I was interested in the Little Villager and forgot it.