MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



entered his cage for food I could never be 

 certain that Jenny would not pursue him. 

 Now and then she even resented the supply 

 in my neighborhood to the extent of bris- 

 tling up to me and attacking the closed fist 

 I shook at her in Chupes' defence. 



And how differently the high-bred little 

 gentleman behaved about his food! Put- 

 ting aside the days of his gobbling infancy, 

 he never failed to conduct himself at meals 

 like a model of deportment. There was no 

 mad haste as in Jenny's case. A pleasant 

 little chatter often accompanied his repast, 

 suggestive of patrician ease and leisure; and 

 that he was no gourmand was proved con- 

 clusively by the fact that he was always 

 willing to leave the most luscious meal to 

 follow me when I left the room, if I gave 

 him the opportunity to do so. 



Strange to say, although Chupes was the 

 dainty one, Jenny was the more fastidious 

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