MISS JENNY'S FORLORN ADVENT 



pirations beyond eating and playing and 

 mere animal content. She had determined 

 to construct a nest, and from this time to 

 the very day of her death, in all indoor 

 places and at all seasons, she worked at the 

 fulfilment of her project; yet she never 

 succeeded in completing even one. Some 

 of her structures have been known to ex- 

 tend over three feet of surface, while others 

 were so small that they could hardly have 

 accommodated a single egg, and all this 

 earnest toil, this pathetic preparation, for 

 the home to which no offspring ever 

 came! 



On one occasion, thinking to give her a 

 few architectural points, I brought in a de- 

 serted nest, but it was only an object of 

 terror to her. 



I had noticed that her impatience with 

 Ohupes was even greater than usual after 

 the period of her prying into the wild 



