108 THE BIRD OF SOCIETY. 



cage with interest and at last came and stood 

 on the side nearest me. I began to talk to 

 him, when he at once showed the deepest at- 

 tention, held both wings slightly away from 

 his body, and quivering, while head and body 

 swayed from side to side, and his eyes were 

 fixed on mine. " Why have you done this 

 thing?" his manner said. "Why have you 

 torn me from my familiar home, confined me 

 in a basket, and placed me among strangers at 

 last ? " 



So evident was his emotion, and so eloquent 

 his expression of it, that I am not ashamed to 

 admit that I was greatly touched. 



