Only A Novice Would Do This

Jinjing now knows where the switch is.

It is under the string.

Which is why it was hard to locate it.

About what you said, begins the dull female forty spotted pardalote.

Yes? says Jinjing, trying to size up the problem.

About being a right hand spotted pardalote, says the female spotted pardalote.

You wish to help me? asks Jinjing.

In a word yes, says the female spotted pardalote, as long as no blame attaches to me for a failure.

No blame will attach to you for a failure, says Jinjing. On the other hand, success would do us both credit.

Sounds fair, says the female spotted pardalote. What should I do?

Lift the string while I flick the switch off, says Jinjing.

Whereabouts? Here? asks the female spotted pardalote.

She does not wait for an answer, but lifts up one end of the string.

Only a novice would do this.

Let it go, says Jinjing. That is not helping.

Yeth-ith-will, says she, with a mouthful of string.

She flies up quickly.

Now we learn, along with Jinjing, that a bow is an inadequate method of attaching a broadcasting device to a tree.

The bow unravels easily.

The device tumbles out of the tree.

Fortunately, missing Gaius and Arthur.

It lands on fallen leaves, and lies wheet-wheeting.

Jinjing flies down and switches it off.

Sorry, says Jingjing. I realise that could have been nasty. It was my fault entirely.

The female spotted pardalote flies off to tell other spotted pardalotes that disabling the broadcasting devices is easy.

She does not know that this was the only one tied on with string.

The only one put up by Arthur.

Amanda, remember, used zip ties.