140 OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS. 
flew off as if nothing had happened. We thought we 
saw them in the trees once again, but were not certain, 
all wax-wings look so very much alike. 
At first, when we let them out of the cage, they 
would run back and go in at the open door; but soon 
they heard their mates calling and joined them. We 
had their photographs taken just before they went 
away, as people have the pictures of their friends to 
‘remember them by.” 
The birds who are at liberty are very attentive to 
the birds in the hospitals, and hop close to them, as if 
they were inquiring all about their troubles. 
Besides these sick birds in the hospital, we have the 
“out patients,” young birds which we feed and look 
after when they happen to fall out of the nests. They 
ery all about at nesting time, so that it is as much as 
one person can do to keep the cats away and see that 
nothing happens to them. 
Boys in our neighborhood know how we love the 
birds, and often bring them to us if they are hurt, so 
that they may have the benefit of our hospital. This 
is better than to leave them where they happen to fall, 
for the cats and dogs to worry. ‘There are many ways 
in which we can show our affection for these little 
people. 
