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gone into Massachusetts even, in the fall roving-time, we 
must always associate him with a long outdoor season 
and sunny skies, as we do the Mockingbird. 
“If the Mocker suffered for his voice, the Cardinal was 
made a prisoner for his song and gorgeous colour combined, 
and though, as is bird law in such cases, the female is dull 
in colour, she has a very attractive song also, even in con- 
finement. But I hope that these prison days are over. 
Whoever now confines the Cardinal is a law-breaker as 
well as a heart-breaker, and yet, but ten years ago, every 
bird-store window was aglow with the colour of the Car- 
dinal’s mantle. I have here in the scrap-book a charming 
story that you will like to hear, of a Cardinal in Boston, 
made a temporary captive for its own preservation, and of 
its release when the right time came.” 
THE CARDINAL AT THE HUB 
His range being southern, Cardinal Grosbeak seldom 
travels through New England; and, to my knowledge, has 
never established a home and reared a family north of 
Connecticut until in the instance here recorded. Ken- 
tuckians claim him, and with some show of right, since 
James Lane Allen built his monument in imperishable 
prose. But, soon or late, all notables come to Boston, 
and among them may now be registered the “ Kentucky 
Cardinal.” 
Shy by nature, conspicuous in plumage, he shuns pub- 
licity; and avoiding the main lines of travel, he puts up 
at a quiet country house in a Boston suburb — Brookline. 
Here, one October day in 1897, among the migrants 
stopping at this halfway house, appeared a distinguished 
