A Street Troubadour 



hammering into silence a Canary that he could 

 not put down by musical superiority, and after 

 one of these little victories his strains were so 

 unusually good that the barber had a stuffed 

 Canary provided for the boisterous musician to 

 vanquish whenever he wished to favor some 

 visitor with Randy's exultant pseans of victory. 

 He worried into silent subjection all of the 

 Canaries he was caged with, and when finally 

 kept by himself nothing angered him more than 

 to be near some voluble songster that he could 

 neither silence nor get at. On these occasions 

 he forgot his music, and his own Sparrow nature 

 showed in the harsh chirrup, chirrup that has 

 apparently been developed to make itself ap- 

 preciated in the din of street traffic. 



By the time his black bib had appeared he 

 had made himself one of the chief characters 

 and quite the chief attraction of the barber-shop. 

 But one day the shelf on which the bird-cages 

 stood gave way, all the cages were dashed 

 to the floor, and in the general smash many of 

 the Birds escaped. Among them was Randy, 

 or, more properly, Bertrand, as this pugnacious 

 songster was named after the famous Trouba- 



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