MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



notes of response to some robins that flew, 

 chattering, past my window; but it was not 

 the piteous appeal of " Take me with you! " 

 Rather the reassuring, " I have fallen 

 among extremely decent humans. Don't 

 distress yourselves on my account. 7 ' 



Shortly after we rescued him I went back 

 to see if his parents were grieving. I found 

 them very philosophically taking up the 

 thread of their daily life, evidently deter- 

 mined not to let the loss of a nestling inter- 

 fere with their housekeeping. The anxiety 

 of the neighbors had also calmed down, and 

 peace and order reigned where confusion 

 and dismay had so recently held sway. 



Now before going any further in my re- 

 cital I want to confess to you that when I 

 picked up that squawking little bundle of 

 feathers, with body and head nearly equal 

 in their dimensions, legs no support what- 

 ever and wings represented by two helpless 



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