Did you ever walk through the woods and suddenly have your cap jerked off by a mischievous branch?
     In the North Woods the guides declare that it isn’t the branches at all that knock off hats and snatch caps as their owners hike along the woodland paths.
    “That old swingdingle again!” they exclaim as a hat goes sailing. Now the swingdingle is very famous. He’s a tricky animal that has lived so long in the trees that he looks like part of a tree, only of course he isn’t.
    He swings from the tree, and as some one passes along the path he watches his chance, swoops down and snatches the hat or cap.