List ()f Illustrations 



From Photographs made from Life 

 and colored hy A. R. Dugmore 



''Boh lying in a lump" l^o face page 4 



" To increase the volume of his rudimentary 

 featlters" ^ 



" Ttiraw his head hack and open his yellaw- 

 lined heak" 10 



''He scra?nhled to the hars of the cage which 



his feehle companion was unahle to do" 14 



"For it was his own image in the looking- 

 glass of a bureau" 28 



"His hath" 30 



"JVhen he smoothed his feathers" 32 



"And as many times slid down tlie unooth 

 surface of the tnirror and wounded himself 

 upon the perilous pin-cushion" 34 



"The ?nost elegant, trim . . . little dandy" 38 



"A sidelong, inquiring posture of the head, 

 . . . Is she gone f" 40 



