92 BEAUTIFUL BIRDS 
for this one has been quite long enough, and so we 
must end it. Oh, but wait a minute. Really, I was 
quite forgetting. First you must get your mother 
to promise never to buy a hat in which there are any 
feathers belonging to the Golden or Six-shafted Bird 
of Paradise. Yes, and never to wear it either, even 
if she did not buy it, but had it given to her. Of 
course your father might give your mother a hat, 
but if he were to give her one of that sort, he would 
have to take it back to the shop and change it for 
another. 
