POOR MISS JENNY'S HEART 



Jingle went the wire and back came the for- 

 giving mate. I carefully drew aside the 

 mosquito-netting and withdrew to a remote 

 corner of the room. He came to the win- 

 dow-sill and looked in. In an instant Jenny 

 flew eagerly to her work as if to show him 

 what a domestic treasure he had found. 

 Papers, rags, sticks, straws the whole het- 

 erogeneous mass was stirred up, rear- 

 ranged, and added to, while the wild bird 

 looked on in amazement. Never before 

 had he beheld such a nest. After a short 

 time he flew away, soon to return with a 

 fine fat grub for his industrious little wife. 

 Jenny seized it eagerly and instantly carried 

 it to the nest, where she scratched and 

 clawed and mashed it into position among 

 her building materials. 



I made the experiment of putting some 

 of her mocking-bird food on the window- 

 sill for the little mate. He eyed it sus- 

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