All during the day the forest about them had been filled with excited birds of brilliant plumage, and dancing, chattering monkeys,who watched these new arrivals and their wonderful nest-buildingoperations with every mark of keenest interest and fascination. Notwithstanding that both Clayton and his wife kept a sharplook out they saw nothing of larger animals, though on two occasions they had seen their little simian neighbors come screaming and chattering from the near-by ridge, casting frightened glances backover their little shoulders, and evincing as plainly as though by speech that they were fleeing some terrible thing which lay concealed there.
