MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



feathers, there was all the difference that 

 exists between the most delicate silks and 

 the stoutest and most durable of coarse 

 woolen or cotton goods. 



Soulful, poetic, musical, dainty; no lover 

 of his kind but a worshipper of his human 

 friends, was Chupes. 



Alert, aggressive, practical, fiercely af- 

 fectionate, and, above all, maternal, was 

 Jenny. It is with such a sense of satisfac- 

 tion that I dwell on the thought that this 

 poor thwarted little bird finally met one 

 of her own kind who returned her affec- 

 tion. 



There is something misleading about the 

 comparative size of the birds in the pho- 

 tographs. (Frontispiece cut.) Chupes 

 was, in reality, larger than Jenny, yet I 

 think the impression conveyed by the pic- 

 tures is that he was the smaller bird. 



It was a great disappointment to me that 

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