Our First Birds. H^ 



could think of nothing else, so that I had some douhts 

 :ttL benefits theyn^iglUgetljonUhecom^™; 

 However, my misgivings were happdy ^^^^^''f^^^ 

 on questioning them afterwards on the subject, though 

 j:dTconfessed she could not 1-U' thrntog ab^ut^ 

 whilst the hells were ringing, yet, as soon as the 

 Ter ie commenced, she dismissed all thoughts of such 

 th nlsout of her head, and was able to jorn the service 

 Ind lllov the sermon throughout, as well as though 

 To igofthekindhadhappened. TldswasasrtshouU 



I witS us all at all times ; and I need hardly say J 

 all returned home with joyo.^ hearts -^ happy f el^ 

 ings, without having allowed our earthly P ^-^ ;«_ 

 interfere with our religious duties, or permitted our re 

 ilus exercises to mar or cast a gloom upon our 

 domestic pleasures, which surely God -er - -f^ J 

 they should do. In the afternoon, a second was said 

 Xe become visible, and now I l-^*y ^^-^ ^^J 

 vere the most pleased, the children or the parent buds. 

 B auty and Buttercup surveyed the little stranger 

 w tithe fondness of a parent's eye, and evidently vrewed 

 h m with the most exquisite delight. The news soon 

 sped throughout the whole aviary that -me young 

 H d had been born into their little world, hough 

 no penny-a-liner connected with the press was there to 

 Tuhrh It abroad. However, so it was ; the secret was 

 not to he kept long from the lady birds, who, we ob- 

 tted immediately flocked round the happy pair, and 

 h:d a eep at the little strangers, and perh^ps, congra- 

 tulated their parents on their happy lot. Having done 

 thteach returned to their respective homes, cheered. 



