168 ADVENTURES AMONG BIRDS 



and did, throw it off, and was always cheerful, her 

 whole care being to make him forget his sorrow. But 

 it seemed useless ; he was a changed man ; all his 

 thoughts, all his heart, were with his lost child. He 

 had always been good-tempered and kind, but he had 

 been merry too, full of fun and laughter ; now he was 

 what I had seen — a very quiet, still man who smiled 

 a little at times, but who appeared to have forgotten 

 how to laugh. 



