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who offered to do this good deed, to a place 

 in Central Park, New York, where a small 

 colony of her kind have established them- 

 selves and build and nest every year. Here 

 she was set free, and here she met her third 

 suitor. The place and the season were propi- 

 tious, and Virginia was ready to look with 

 favor on a smart young cardinal in the bright- 

 est of coats, who came in response to her calls 

 the moment she found herself on a tree, really 

 out in the world. A little coaxing, a few tender 

 words, and she flew away with him, and we saw 

 her no more. • 



