of indignation when at last 

 the lady of the house ivas 

 able to bring him his break- 

 Jast. He scrambled to the 

 bars of the cage — luhich 

 his feeble comji anion luas 

 unable to do — took the prof 

 fered ball ()f egg-and-jio- 

 tatojiercelyin his beak ^ and 

 th en , instead (yfswallowing 

 it^ deliberatelyjlappedback 

 to his sick o'uest in the cor- 

 ner and gave him the whole 



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