HIS KINDNESS TO OTHERS 77 
upper and lower parts of his bill were crossed, 
so that he could not pick up anything from the 
ground, where chewinks find their food. He 
had been born thus deformed, and if he had not 
been fed every day by his friends he must have 
starved to death. Yet so well had he been cared 
for that he was better grown than any of the 
party. 
