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tion, Polly's attentions and the efforts 

 Dohong would make to do what she wished 

 were really pathetic to witness. Polly would 

 save pieces of bread — she never saved any 

 banana or orange— and push tiny bits round 

 the partition and through the bars to Dohong, 

 and Dohong, ill and feeble as he was, would 

 always take the pieces of bread and do his 

 best to eat them, although he had perhaps 

 just refused some of his favorite food. If 

 he did not actually eat the bread he would 

 keep it by him until removed by one of the 

 keepers when he was not looking. For some 

 time, at the beginning of Dohong 's illness, 

 Polly would thump on the floor or partition 

 when apparently wishing to call his attention 

 to something, and at first Dohong would an- 

 swer either by going to the front or back of 

 the cage or by making some little gutteral 

 noise in answer; but, in time, he grew too 

 feeble to do this and finally Polly left it off. 

 But in spite of all the care and anxiety, the 

 best medical attention, the most devoted 

 nurses — for his keepers were absolutely de- 



