For I was still a truant bird, that thought his home a cage.

In another instant, Josephine, in the daintiest of garden-hats tied under her pretty chin, was chasing her truant bird through the wood.

In a moment more the nymph of the island appeared, in her white robe, ascending the cliff in pursuit of her truant bird.

Down the lane came the children, trooping home after the cows, seeking as truant birds do the quiet of their home nest.

"Nay, fair angel," said a voice at our side, "now we have found our truant bird, we must cage her."