THE HERO ENTERS SUDDENLY 



with Chupes. He adopted it after attend- 

 ing a vesper service in the grove. 



Notes of fear and those of the love-song 

 were the only ones that came to him 

 through channels of heredity. Of these I 

 would say, as Sydney Lanier said of the 

 carols of his bird Bob, " he must have 

 brought them in his mind from the egg, or 

 from some further source whereof we know 

 nothing." 



Playfulness, I have learned, exists in 

 birds in as great a degree as in lambs or 

 kittens. Chupes' joyful demonstrations 

 with a bit of paper tossing it up in the air, 

 running to catch it, frisking and skirmish- 

 ing wildly about with it in his beak gave 

 me the idea of testing him with a string. I 

 found him more than willing to chase it, 

 and whenever I wished to make his happi- 

 ness complete and his antics extra amusing, 

 I had only to attach a rubber band to the 

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