. My pets; real happenings in my aviary . ith her broom. 250 A Mother Careys Chicken Billy would cheerfully pose when he saw acamera, and follow us whenever we went to thephotographers in the town. One day when mymother was having her picture taken, Billy placedhimself at her feet. The photographer took him upand lifted him to what he considered a more attract-ive position. I shall never forget the look of doggish reproachthat Billy gave him as he walked back to his originalposition, and held it. It seemed to say, Dont youknow, sir, that I am a dog that is used to posing? Iknow how to show off
. My pets; real happenings in my aviary . ith her broom. 250 A Mother Careys Chicken Billy would cheerfully pose when he saw acamera, and follow us whenever we went to thephotographers in the town. One day when mymother was having her picture taken, Billy placedhimself at her feet. The photographer took him upand lifted him to what he considered a more attract-ive position. I shall never forget the look of doggish reproachthat Billy gave him as he walked back to his originalposition, and held it. It seemed to say, Dont youknow, sir, that I am a dog that is used to posing? Iknow how to show off my good points better thanyou do. Strangers sometimes remarked that no member ofour family was photographed without this pet dog. We cannot help it, we used to reply, Billyfollows us and gets into the picture. We cant keephim out. Dear little dog! He was the last of the real ani-mals in Beautiful Joe, to leave us, and a year ago,at the age of sixteen years and a half, lay down oneday to die, as calmly and peacefully as he had lived. 251. CHAPTER XXVI SWEET-SWEET AND THE SAINT OF THE AVIARY AMONG the books that I bought when I startedmy aviary was one that amused me im-mensely. It was a clever book, but the descriptionof each bird almost always began with the assertionthat this particular bird was the best, the brightest,and the prettiest bird of the entire race of birds. I have not had the variety of birds described inthat book, but now that I am attempting to relatethe particulars of some of my pets, I find myselftempted to ascend up to the same heights of bird is the best bird. Each one is the mostbeautiful, the most lovable—one has to exercise self-restraint to avoid exaggeration. 252 Sweet-Sweet and the Saint of the Aviary I have had quite a large number of birds thatI cannot write about at length. I will merely men-tion some of them. I one day expressed a wish to have some blue-jays in the presence of a bird-fancier, and shortlyafterward he arrived with a pa
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