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which she owes the bird, kept a prisoner for 

 her gratification. 



These remarks have been forced from us 

 by a keen sense of the wrongs and injuries 

 to which our feathered friends are constantly 

 subjected, arising from an observation of the 

 vast amount of unnecessary suffering en- 

 tailed upon them by carelessness more than 

 heartlessness. "We are persuaded that many 

 of the tears which have been shed over dead 

 birds, have proceeded as much from contri- 

 tion for neglect, as from sorrow for the loss 

 sustained ; and our fair readers will, we 

 trust, pardon us if we remind them in the 

 words of Thomas Hood, that, 



" Evil is wrought by want of thought, 

 As much as by want of heart." 



The cage should never, in winter, be left 

 in a room without fire. 



