“No; guess again, nearly right; something as lays eggs—”

“A turtle?”

Morgan shook his head.

“Not an alligator, is it?”

He wrinkled up his face in a hearty laugh.

“Alligator it is, sir. I found a nest yesterday.”

“And didn’t tell me. I want to see an alligator’s nest. I never could find one.”

“Ah, you didn’t look in the right kind of tree, Master George.”

“Don’t talk to me as if I were a baby, Morgan,” I said; “just as if I didn’t know better than that.”

“Oh, but you don’t know everything. I got awfully laughed at once for saying squirrels build nests in trees.”