THE HERO ENTERS SUDDENLY 



hand, a humming-bird came buzzing up to 

 me. He was evidently about to alight be- 

 side Chupes, when a sudden movement on 

 my part startled the tiny creature and 

 caused him to draw back. But in spite of 

 his alarm, he buzzed and hummed around 

 me for some time, apparently uncertain 

 what to make of me. I never realized my 

 ambition of taming one of these gems of 

 nature. 



Chupes' first approach to an intimate ac- 

 quaintance with a bird came about under 

 peculiar circumstances. He was digging 

 near me in the grove, when a father and 

 mother robin, who were escorting their son 

 on one of his earliest trips abroad, came fly- 

 ing by at a rapid rate. The parents were 

 proficient surveyors and they cleared the 

 wire fence, against which the baby hit with 

 full force. In one moment he lay on the 

 ground in an attitude painfully suggestive 

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