214 JEALOUSY AROUSED. 



The same day, the jealousy of the unsuccess- 

 ful wooer was aroused by a fine, fresh-looking 

 cardinal whom he saw in the looking-glass. In 

 flying past it he caught a glimpse of his reflec- 

 tion, and at once turned, alighted before it, and 

 began calling vehemently; holding out, and 

 quivering his wings, and flying up against the 

 figure again and again in the most savage way. 

 The next day he began to mope and refused 

 to come out of the cage ; whether because of 

 illness, or disappointed affections, who shall 

 say? 



The time of her tormentor's retirement was 

 one of great happiness to Virginia. She paid 

 her usual visit to the robin, and he, as at first, 

 vacated the cage, this having become the reg- 

 ular morning programme. Now, too, she went 

 on to extend her acquaintance by entering the 

 cage of another neighbor, a scarlet tanager, a 

 shy, unobtrusive fellow, who asked nothing but 

 to be let alone. This bird also did not re- 

 ciprocate her neighborly sentiments ; he met 

 her with open beak, but finding that did not 

 awe her, nor prevent her calmly walking in, he 

 hastily left the cage himself. During the time 

 that her persecutor was sulking, and not likely 

 to bother, she had leisure for the bath, which 

 she enjoyed freely, coming out with her long 

 breast - feathers hanging in locks and looking 



