MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



bird from its nest, although nestlings may 

 learn to accommodate themselves to un- 

 natural conditions, and even to be happy 

 with human beings under the most favor- 

 able circumstances. 



But a bird that has once tasted the 

 sweets of liberty unless some accident has 

 maimed him and made him grateful for hu- 

 man aid can never know anything but 

 heartache in captivity. 



I don't know that I ever realized this 

 more fully than in the case of a beautiful 

 cardinal-bird owned by a friend of mine. 



It was evening when the cage was 

 brought to her home, and its occupant was 

 either too dazed or too exhausted to evince 

 restlessness; indeed he had almost the ap- 

 pearance of having been drugged. 



But the following morning when my 

 friend went to look at her gift she found the 

 unfortunate creature beating wildly against 

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