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flash so and his eyes beam, and he looks very pleasant 
indeed. I think you would quite like him, so you 
must not despise him because he is not civilised like 
us ; never despise people because they have a different 
coloured skin to your own and wear no clothes and 
are called savages. Perhaps we may be better than 
people like that, but remember that the angels are much 
better compared to us, than we are, compared to such 
people. But do you think the angels despise us? Oh 
no, you cou/d not think that, so you must not despise 
the savages. Never despise any one, that is the best 
thing. Instead of doing that, try to find out what is 
good about them—there is sure to be something, and, 
often, it is something which “Hey have and we have 
not. Never despise. 
Well, it is this same naked, frizzly-haired Papuan 
who kills the beautiful Red Bird of Paradise as well 
as the Great one, but he does not do it with bows and 
arrows, but in quite another way, which I will tell you 
about. 
The Birds of Paradise are all fond of fruit; they 
like insects and things of that sort too, but fruit they 
are very fond of. They like a nice ripe fig, and there 
are so many fig-trees in that country, both growing 
wild and in the gardens too, that when the figs are 
ripe they do not trouble to finish one before they 
begin another, but fly about from tree to tree, making 
