. The canary : its varieties, management, and breeding : with portraits of the author's own birds . n fait accompli, we sorely regretted the opportu-nity we had missed in not making a purchase. As ourplan of operations developed itself, and breeds of differentlocalities and countries^ as well as varieties of colour,were decided upon, we sighed to think that we mightnever have such a chance again. Weeks and monthspassed on without our seeing anything of the kind,when, calling one day at Mr. M—s shop, what shouldwe see in a cage just brought in by a countryman forsale, but the very bird we had l
. The canary : its varieties, management, and breeding : with portraits of the author's own birds . n fait accompli, we sorely regretted the opportu-nity we had missed in not making a purchase. As ourplan of operations developed itself, and breeds of differentlocalities and countries^ as well as varieties of colour,were decided upon, we sighed to think that we mightnever have such a chance again. Weeks and monthspassed on without our seeing anything of the kind,when, calling one day at Mr. M—s shop, what shouldwe see in a cage just brought in by a countryman forsale, but the very bird we had let slip in the marketsome months before ! Here was a piece of good luck,I thought, which could never have been expected!Unfortunately, however, Mr. M— was out of town,and the stranger had only contingently offered thebirds for sale in a lot, and had now departed. As hewas an entire stranger, and they knew neither hisname nor address, I left word with the man in chargeof the shop to be sure and tell jNIr. M— to buy thecinnamon bird specially for me. The next day we all THE CIXXAMON CANARY,. J^EHAPH AND Our Cinnamons, 59 went down to look at this charming bird again, andhighly delighted we all were at the thought she wouldsoon be our own, as we did not doubt about easilycoming to terms as to her price. The day followingMr. M— had returned, but the owner of the birds hadnot been. Saturday, and he was sure to come, whenour fondest wishes would be realised ! Judge then ofour disappointment when, on calling the first thing onMonday morning, we heard that Mr. M— had not beenable to comply with our wishes, as the man insistedthat all his birds were cocks, whereas Mr. M— con-sidered them to be all hens, which made a considerabledifference in their value ! The worst of it was the manwas quite a stranger to Mr. M— also, who knew notwho he was, or where he came from, and now the birdswere gone, and our much coveted cinnamon was, to allappearance, a second time, if not
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