MISS JENNY'S FORLORN ADVENT 



Your bird! Do you not see? He will hang 

 himself! " 



Following the direction of the indicating 

 finger, I discovered Jenny dangling wildly 

 at the end of the shade-string. She had 

 swallowed the knotty part how much 

 more I could not then judge and had evi- 

 dently started to fly or to walk away after 

 the repast; but no hook and line 'had ever 

 done its work more thoroughly. As in the 

 case of the shoe-lace, I made an ineffectual 

 attempt to recover the property, and finally 

 cut it off near 'her beak. 



This was even more serious than the for- 

 mer swallowing episode. A decided Adam's 

 apple travelling around in her craw en- 

 abled us to follow events very closely. 

 Every now and then she would twist her 

 neck and open 'her beak and choke and 

 splutter and almost dislodge the unnatural 

 food, but attempt after attempt failed. 

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