MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



companionship and support of its human 

 friends; excellent opportunities for digging 

 and delving are afforded the little convales- 

 cent, and, with a frequently replenished 

 bath, cleanliness is as possible as under the 

 freest circumstances. With increasing 

 wing strength, the little patient can take 

 higher and higher flights, and when he is 

 able so soar to the full extent of the green- 

 house, to take care of himself, that is, 

 he will find windows open in the roof, if the 

 day is auspicious, and through them he may 

 re-enter the world from which he involun- 

 tarily retired. 



I have seen a beautiful flicker with a 

 bleeding, helpless wing go through all the 

 stages I have just described and finally fly 

 away through the roof of this Hotel des In- 

 valides with a perfectly clean bill of health. 



If a bird is going to recover he will gen- 

 erally do so before the close of the season in 

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