. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. me to the giving some food she placed thelittle bird outside in the yard, where hewas at once taken in hand by his was almost inert through exhaustionand appeared to have injured his wing,and his parents busied themselves for sometime attending to his wants. This done,however, their next movements proved thatthey had had enough of that back were also bent on carrying theiryoungster with them. But here they weremet by serious obstacles in his weakenedcondition and injured wing. At first theyt
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. me to the giving some food she placed thelittle bird outside in the yard, where hewas at once taken in hand by his was almost inert through exhaustionand appeared to have injured his wing,and his parents busied themselves for sometime attending to his wants. This done,however, their next movements proved thatthey had had enough of that back were also bent on carrying theiryoungster with them. But here they weremet by serious obstacles in his weakenedcondition and injured wing. At first theytried to induce him to fly, but alas! hewas too weak to profit by their instruc-tions. After a good deal of chatteringpersuasion, however, he at length managedto gain the first window-sill, and bye-and-bye the second also ; but when he attemptedthe third the poor little thing failed to reach,it, and fell fluttering to the ground in spite of this failure his courage parent .i^^t|^^t^ntie endeavours to .^idently revivmg, and, encouraged by hia. A London Idyll 269 parents insistent chirpings, lie made a secondand many other attempts; but he could notsucceed in gaining the third window-sill. At thispoint he always fell backwards to the ground. It is probable that his wing was still moreinjured by these falls, and, as evening approached,the old birds seemed to realize that flight wasfor him impossible. They also saw possibilities connected witha cistern resting low down in an angle of thewall, and they set about putting these intooperation. The_y began by hopping backwardsand forwards to the cistern, chirping loudly thewhile in language which their invalid under-stood, and which said as plainly as possible: This is the way to freedom, walk in it, andat length the pluckly little one tried to imitatethem. He made many failures, but at last heactually succeeded in gaining the cistern. Bythis time night was closing in, and nothingfurther was seen or heard of them
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