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placing near another, apart from the rest. Sometimes 
you may have taken a bird away, and may find later on 
he may go back, but when once he has high bell there 
is little hope of him being any good in the school. 
Keep the best songsters nearest the tutor until they 
are well advanced. Should your tutor fail you by 
moulting late, or start early with a long moult, you may 
find one or two of these youngsters very useful until he 
comes round again. 
When the song has fully developed, study your 
pedigree, find out the lines of your deepest and purest 
birds, and mark your hens, so preparing for next season’s 
breeding. Choose your show birds, transfer them to the 
standard show cages about three weeks before the show, 
and train them to sing readily to the judge; shift them 
about the rooms, move them into all sorts of positions, 
carry them about with you to a friend’s house, open them 
out on the table with a sheet of paper before you as if 
you were judging. 
