with his mouth full of food which he would hide under the 
point of one of these shoes, while he went back for more. _ 
_ The gentleman though it was a very good joke to move 
his foot a few inches while the bird was gone, and it always 
created a bit of fun, because Mag would stand and look at 
the exposed food and at.the shoe in such a puzzled way when 
he returned. After a few seconds he would put his new 
mouthful under the shoe, pick up the other morsels, place 
them also there, and go back to his dish for another load. | 
_ Usually the third trip gave Mag time to decide that 
he must find a place where his extras would stay covered 
and, then, he regularly chose a knot hole in the fence that 
separated the croquet ground from an alley into which he 
never entered. The complete loss of the food or the size of 
the alley-he was trying to fill, never seemed to enter his 
head, although he often placed one eye close to the hole as 
the eatable vanished and made strange sounds to express 
his thoughts, which it was probably just as well were not 
understood by his audience. Yet by the next evening Mag 
would have forgotten his former troubles = would go 
through the same performance. 
During that summer his teacher friend was away for a 
_ few days and Mag showed that he cared for her and missed 
her by making his first uninvited visit into the house. He 
flew through an open window, went from room to room, 
calling in an unusual way, then flew out into the street and _ 
down into the business section. There a friend found him 
and took him back to the yard, but he had to be locked 1 in 
~ his shed to prevent his flying away again. 
The evening his owner returned someone thought of 
Mag and brought him in, placing him on the floor where she 
talked to him. He showed his delight in new cries and 
chuckles, but if she gave attention to anything that others 
said, he pulled her dress or tried to get up into her lap. 
Finally he had to be sent to bed, but in the morning. he came 
into the house to visit with her once more. _ oe 
163 _— 
