MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



This expression of his genuine senti- 

 ments he reiterated to the close of his happy 

 little life. 



Jenny's usual notes were the busy, fussy, 

 guerulous, imperious ones, used by the or- 

 thodox female robin in addressing her mate. 

 Occasionally she made a leathery (I find no 

 other word to express the dull, creaking 

 sound) departure from conversational tones, 

 which I concluded was an attempt at im- 

 provisation a failure from the standpoint 

 of a musician, but evidently highly satis- 

 factory to the performer. But in spite of 

 the fact that her notes were, as a rule, harsh 

 and unmusical to a degree, I have heard 

 this dear little bird twitter and coo in the 

 gentlest, sweetest manner as she prepared 

 her impossible nest for the reception of the 

 ardently longed-for nestlings. 

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