So, too, do nervous children seek to bury their eyes under pillows, and nervous statesmen theirs under oratory.

Ramsey's ostrichings can happen to anybody.

But finally the brightness of the sky between the leaves settled matters for him; he sneezed, wept, and for a little moment again faced his fellowmen.

No one was looking at him; everybody except Milla had other things to do.
Having sneezed involuntarily, he added a spell of coughing for which there was no necessity.

"I guess I must be wrong," he muttered thickly.
"What about, Ramsey ?" "About it bein' a squirrel." With infinite timidity he turned his head and encountered a gaze so soft, so hallowed, that it disconcerted him, and he dropped a "drumstick" of fried chicken, well dotted with ants, from his plate.