Show WHERE THE TEE HEN NESTED We put up for the night at the little thatched reserved for the occasional occasional occasional oc oc- oc- oc traveler but the permanent abode of rats At the village of pym Burmah Burma h I had as many as six ra rat raton rats t ton on my bed all struggling to reach my boots which I had taKen K the precaution to go hang a peg on the e- e wall Irr knowing l how much Russian leather is appreciated by the tribe Sleep was was- impossible with the enem enemy on all sides for the rats not bent on supping off oit my boots were hunting under my pillow for a fragment of candle and a box of matches which I I thought might be safe from their But a rat is not easily daunted and with a shove they shot pillow matches and candle on to the floor Then my blood was up and I 1 in a fury tury and hurled trees boot-trees and everything 1 could lay rg hands dlo on n a at the r retreating foe Peace reigned for a short t time then they re- re till tul flea to the attack wi wl a renewed vigor L I. hive have had many funny funn experiences In In- way the in the East but the strangest was once on the Thi Thi- frontier where one night I was wasa a awakened by a snorting sound close to tomy tomy tomy my ear and to my horror I 1 found that my head was held eid down by something heavy resting upon it The heavy object edged oh oit on on my trying to move and by bythe bythe bythe the light of ot a spluttering match I 1 discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered an an- elderly hen seated on my pulow pillow pillow pil pu- low and the gg she had hall laid there For three months we had be been n traveling at an altitude too great real for fOI poultry to exist and andI I had longed for eggs egg to vary our limited f fare re of tinned meats But such But such is the perversity of human nature nature- nature tI I was exceedingly ex ex- annoyed with the layer laer of that egg and anti hurled hurld her cackling forth into the darkness though I 1 kept the egg tor br tormy tormy my st. Cornhill ll |