MR. CHUPES' MUSICAL ATTAINMENTS 



appearance of making a magnanimous con- 

 cession. 



But no victory crowned my morning ef- 

 forts to subdue him. In vain I darkened 

 my room and his cage; in vain I expostu- 

 lated with him. Through all the gloom in 

 which he was shrouded the little fellow's 

 heart announced to him the approach of 

 day; and even before the out-door birds had 

 been heard from, he would pour out his 

 most impassioned ode to dawn. 



Beautiful and poetic as this was, it 

 proved very trying to our city neighbors 

 when, for a time, we left the vicinity of the 

 grove and went nearer town; but as we mi- 

 grated early and generally took up our 

 quarters in haunts remote from men, we 

 were not long in disfavor. 



I have frequently been accused of parti- 

 ality in keeping back the account of Chupes' 

 transgressions; so I determine, on this oc- 

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