TO INTRODUCE ORESTES Hervey moved cautiously in along the limb to a point where he felt sure that it would hold his weight, and as he did so it moved slowly up into place.

What the little householder thought of all this topsy-turvy business it might be amusing to know.

For surely, if the world war changed the map of Europe, the little neighborhood of leaf and branch where this timid denizen of the woods lived and had its being, had been subject to jolts and changes quite as sweeping.

Now and again it poked its downy speckled head out for a kind of disinterested squint at things, apparently unconcerned with mighty upheavals so long as its little home was undisturbed.
Hervey Willetts straddled the branch and calculated the thickness of it.
"You all right ?" he heard Tom call from below.
"Yop," he called back; "did you see his nobs fly away?
Back to the crags for him, hey?
Wait down there a few minutes, I'm going to bring a friend." Hervey had now a very nice little calculation to make.

In the first place he must not frighten his new acquaintance by approaching too near again.