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applied herself to his training. I saw her, after care- 

 fully letting herself out of her cage in her usual 

 manner, by turning round the seed-box and then 

 squeezing through the turnstile thus formed, go 

 deliberately back and put Master Tuft up to the same 

 piece of misdirected talent. And then she introduced 

 him to her favourite dish of crocuses (which was also 

 mine), and within a very few days she had so perfected 

 his education, that when I put her into a more 

 impracticable sort of cage as the most mischievous 

 bird I had, I was forced to put Tuft into prison also, 

 as he was found to have become a perfect master of 

 all her naughty tricks. 



I will add hereafter a list of birds suited for single 

 cages ; and mention also the kind of cages best for 

 each to have. 



CHAPTER Y. 



VAKIOUS SPECIAL BIRDS. 



1. THERE are very few people who have not at some 

 time or other possessed a Canary. They are amongst 

 the easiest of all tame birds to manage ; and although 

 I do not think they possess the very attractive quali- 

 ties of Goldfinches and Bullfinches, they are still 

 perhaps the most universally known of all the cage 



