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to walk.THE CURTAIN 331He mentioned this to his mate and whenhe told her that the Eggs would probably conductthemselves in the same way after they were fledgedshe was quite comforted and even became eagerlyinterested and derived great pleasure from watchingthe boy over the edge of her nest thoughshealways thought that the Eggs would be much clevererand learn more quickly. But then she saidindulgently that humans were always more clumsyand slow than Eggs and most of them neverseemed really to learn to fly at alL You nevermet them in the air or on tree-tops.After a while the boy began to move about asthe others did, but all three of the children attimes did unusual things. They would standunder the trees and move their arms and legs andheads about in a way which was neither walkingnor running nor sitting down. They went throughthese movements at intervals every day and therobin was never able to explain to his mate whatthey were doing or trying to do. He could onlysay that he was sure that the Eggs would neverflap about in such a manner; but as the boy whocould speak robin so fluently was doing the thingwith them, birds could be quite sure that the actionswere not of a dangerous nature.Of courseneither the robin nor his mate had ever heard ofthe champion wrestler, Bob Haworth, and his ex-