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well as the art with which it conciliates the regard of 
animals materially differing from itself, and generally 
considered as hostile to every species of the feathered 
tribe. Two Lapwings were given to a clergyman, who 
put them into his garden ; one of them soon died, but the 
other continued to pick up such food as the place afforded, 
till winter deprived it of its usual supply. Necessity 
soon compelled it to draw nearer to the house, by which 
it gradually became familiarized to occasional interrup- 
tions from the family. At length one of the servants, 
when she had occasion to go into the back-kitchen with a 
light, observed that the Lapwing always uttered his cry 
of "pee-wit," to obtain admittance. The bird soon grew 
more familiar: as the winter advanced, he approached as 
far as the kitchen, but with much caution, as that part of 
the house was generally occupied by a dog and cat, whose 
friendship, however, the Lapwing at length conciliated so 
entirely, that it was his regular custom to resort to the 
fire-side as soon as it grew dark, and spend the evening 
and night with his two associates, sitting close by them, 
and partaking of the comforts of a warm hearth. As 
soon as spring appeared, he discontinued his visits to the 
house, and betook himself to the garden ; but, on the ap- 
proach of winter, he had recourse to his old shelter and 
friends, who received him very cordially. Security was 
productive of insolence; what was at first obtained with 
caution, was afterwards taken without reserve : he fre- 
quently amused himself with washing in the bowl which 
was set for the dog to drink out of ; and while he was 
thus employed, he showed marks of the greatest indigna- 
tion if either of his companions presumed to interrupt 
him. He died in the asylum he had thus chosen, being 
choked with something that he had picked up from the 
floor. 
