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liveliness of the other, at once captivated all hearts, so 

 that Agnes at once bestowed upon them the very 

 appropriate names of Brilliant and Beauty, which they 

 have ever since retained, and still deserve. But, alas, 

 the former is evidently all the worse for his journey ; he 

 sets up his feathers, and rolls about the bottom of the 

 cage like a drunken man ; with great difficulty he can 

 sit upon his perch, and it is plain, from some cause or 

 other, that he is very ill altogether. Though his case 

 looked bad, and there was obviously considerable danger 

 of our labour being lost by his death, mamma could 

 not help joking us about the loss of our money, and 

 the enthusiasm we had displayed. We were in no 

 mind, however, to lose him so easily, or to give him up 

 without making an attempt to cure him of his malady. 

 Judging that he had been made giddy by the length of 

 his journey, and the close confinement and want of 

 air he must necessarily have experienced in my hat, I 

 immediately took down my homoeopathic medicine- 

 chest, and prescribed what I thought would be likely 

 to suit hia case. Mixing four or five drops of tincture 

 of belladonna in his water, I placed it in his cage, when 

 he immediately freely and frequently drank of its 

 contents^, which seemed to revive and bring him about 

 at once. By degrees he became able to retain his seat 

 on the perch, so that by the time we went to bed we 

 had little or no anxiety about his recovering. The 

 next morning he was evidently much better, though 

 still far from well. We continued, therefore, his medi- 

 cine, changing it in a day or two to china in order to 

 recruit his strength, when, after a little time, I am 



