272 CAAPTER XXE A PRETTY SIGHT. SUT though Johnny did not succeed in catching even one of the little birds, and though he was so vexed and cross with them for not caring to have those nice pinches of salt on their tails that would have made them so easy to catch, as he thought, yet he very soon got over his anger with them, and went out again, accom- panied by his horse, to see if he