Chapter II 



My First Week In-doors 



MY first week in-doors was very 

 painful and distressing to me. 

 Though my father and mother had 

 never been kind, still they were my 

 father and mother. But now I was all 

 the time with strangers, great, mon- 

 strous, tall human beings, and I was 

 such a tiny little bird! How could I 

 feel at home with them ? It scared me 

 just to see them. 



Still, scared or not, what was I to 

 do ? I had to stay there, for, unlike my 

 home in the nest in the tree, here every- 

 thing was shut up. The air was warm 



