. Stories about birds, with pictures to match . ; afterwhich, hearing the voice of the beloved masterwho reared them, they would return, and neverleave their master again. Others, when forcedto leave a favorite master, have been known todie of grief. They do not easily forget an injury. One 164 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. of them, having been thrown down, cage andall, bj some vulgar and meanly dressed people,did not seem much distuibed by the fall; butafterward, whenever it saw a person of thatdescription, it went into convulsions at , it died in a fit, brought on in thismanner, about eigh
. Stories about birds, with pictures to match . ; afterwhich, hearing the voice of the beloved masterwho reared them, they would return, and neverleave their master again. Others, when forcedto leave a favorite master, have been known todie of grief. They do not easily forget an injury. One 164 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. of them, having been thrown down, cage andall, bj some vulgar and meanly dressed people,did not seem much distuibed by the fall; butafterward, whenever it saw a person of thatdescription, it went into convulsions at , it died in a fit, brought on in thismanner, about eight months after the fall. The whole family are very affectionateand confidino^ birds. A bullfinch belong^inorto a lady in England was subject to frightfuldreams, during which he would fall from hisperch, and beat himself in the cage. But nosooner did he hear the kind voice of hismistress, than he would become tranquil andgo to sleep again. The picture which you see facing the title-page of this volume represents another speciesof the STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. 167 ^jlB WflnipBrkBr.
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