MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



to 'him by a bed, a sofa, a chair or any other 

 equally substantial and shelter-affording 

 object. Remember that this occurred 

 before he had exchanged views with birds 

 on any subject whatever; he was only at 

 what corresponds to the goo-goo stage of 

 articulation and understanding in human 

 infants when he came to us therefore this 

 fear could not have been instilled into him 

 by parental or neighborly precept. 



At the sight of a hawk, Jenny always 

 stiffened into terrified rigidity. Either she 

 was too panic-stricken to move, or else she 

 considered this attitude the most inoffen- 

 sive and inconspicuous she could assume. 

 These were doubtless the hours in which 

 she " a monk would be," but with the dis- 

 appearance of the hawk she would resume 

 her busy arbitrary ways and her severe dis- 

 ciplining of Chupes. 



!A bit of detached tree-bark always had 

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