THE HERO ENTERS SUDDENLY 



beak, he would pick up other objects: a leaf, 

 a bit of paper, a string; just as many things 

 as he could possibly carry, all the time, pa- 

 rading up and down before us, challenging 

 our admiration, while he repeatedly threw 

 down all but the fly or whatever his prize 

 might be, only to recommence the jugglery 

 of picking them up. So the play would 

 go on until the little fellow became tired, 

 when 'he would eat his dainty with great 

 relish. 



The shaking and rattling of belts or 

 straps or any objects with jingling and 

 clinking attachments, like buckles, always 

 wrought Chupes up to the highest pitch of 

 merriment. We arranged a game for him 

 of the nature of " Button, button, who has 

 the button? " in which, with hands behind 

 us, we did our best to pass the rattling 

 thing from one to another so rapidly as to 

 keep him from locating it; but the bird al- 



