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a trunk or branch and come down bruised and 

 stunned. 



He wrapped it up in a handkerchief and took 

 it home to Deal and put it in a box; then mother 

 got some flannel and made a sort of bed for it, 

 and warmed some milk and they opened its beak 

 and fed it with a teaspoon. Next day it was 

 all right and opened its beak to be fed whenever 

 they came near it, and in two or three days it 

 began flying about the room and perching on their 

 shoulders. Then he brought it back to Walmer 

 and let it go and saw it fly off into the trees, but 

 when he got home mother scolded him for having 

 let it go when its parents were not about; she 

 said it would die of starvation, and was going 

 on at him when in flew the jackdaw and came 

 flop on her shoulder! After that mother and 

 father said they'd keep the daw a little longer, 

 and then he could let it go at a distance where 

 there were other daws about. By and by they 

 said they'd let it stay where it was. Father liked 

 a bloater for his tea, and there was nothing the 

 jackdaw was fonder of, so he was always on the 

 table at tea-time, eating out of father's plate. 

 Then he got to be troublesome. He was always 



