54 EVERYDAY BIRDS 
sion of nervousness or annoyance, and is uttered 
whenever an intruder—a man, a cat, or a 
strange bird — comes near the tree in which her 
treasures are hidden. 
Hummingbirds sometimes fly into open win- 
dows and are caught. At such times they be- 
come tame almost at once, but it is difficult, if 
not impossible, to keep them alive in captivity, 
and it is cruel to attempt it, except when the 
little creature is injured and plainly unable to 
look out for itself. 
A lady of my. acquaintance discovered a hum- 
mingbird under her piazza. It had flown in by 
accident, probably, and now was darting to and 
fro in a frantic attempt to get out. The piazza 
was open on three sides, to be sure, but the 
frightened bird kept up against the ceiling, and 
of course found itself walled in. 
Fearful that it would injure itself, the lady 
brought a broom and tried to force it to come 
down and so discover its way out; but it was 
only the more scared. Then a happy thought 
came to her. She went to the garden, plucked 
a few flowers, and going back to the piazza, set 
them down for the bird to see. Instantly it flew 
toward them, and as it did so it saw the open 
world without, and away it went. 
Another lady wrote me once a very pretty 
