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impossible to hear any single voice. All 
crowded around Henry, who lay on the grass 
half dead with fear. 
Spinnette soon commanded silence. When 
all were again quiet, she said, ^ Since I brought 
the fellow here, I have thought of a good plan 
by which he can be well punished. It is this : 
we will change him into the Greenfinch with 
the broken wing, put him into the cage, and 
let him remain in that state until to-morrow 
night at this time ; he will then have suffered 
sufficiently, without doubt, to cure him of all 
revengeful thoughts for the future.’ 
‘ Good ! good ! ’ shouted all the assembly, 
and Henry was at that instant kicked by one 
of the huge grasshoppers on the arm. The 
blow was so great that he felt his limb break, 
and with the pain and fright he fainted away. 
When he came from his swoon, he found him- 
self at home, but surrounded by a fence of 
sticks. His arm pained him exceedingly, and, 
as he tried to feel of it with his other hand, he 
discovered that he was covered with feathers, 
and that his arms were bird’s wings. The 
