Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-07-31
The Nice Times the Feathsrea Tribe
have.

As they stood together, looking out
into the garden, she raised her eyes
softly 10 hi aud, while an expression of
sweet suspense crept softly over her
pretty face, murmured.
"Don't the little brrds have nice
iimei"
"oh, yes" he answered, "they do
that. They have political sinecures
without voting or having to get Con
pressmen to back them. And they are
in for life, and they cant write letters
that will expose them ten years later,
and they haven't got war records to be
sprung on them Mt the wrong moment,
and they know nothing about finance to
get them into trouble, Oh. yes, darling,
the birds have n pretty nice time OF H."
"But their lives seem to be made up
of love, she whispered family.
''Yes; but you must not bet too heav-
ilv ON love. have seen human beings
whose lives seem 10 be made up oil love;
but, when there was no one around,
their homes assumed the character OF u
political primary with n good-nized
tornado omptied into the free hight.
You mustn't Judge the feelings of mar
ried couple for each other by tho way
they act at kettledrum. But then the
birds have the advantage over men In
making love-"
mo Jokes on bills aud notes. she
broke IN.
"No." he replied, "but because they
have a sure thing. They don't have 70
40 down town aud write poetry and put
in coal all day for "a per week, and they
never have TO save up money to pay Tor
ice cream and theater parties. They
never have 10 buy clothes, aud when
they do fall in love they are not talked
about all over creation, and don't have
TO meander up TO the girls father and
tell him a lot Of lies, and prime their
references to do likewise. Oh, ycs. the
bird In love has pretty soft thing.
"Do you think they understand each
other when they twitter''
IL don't think there Is any doubt
about that, because tho male seems 70 be
wax mad when the female gets in all the
talk. Now, that female over there
seems to be in the act Of mailing her lord
for n new dress, or commanding him not
10 be looking mt that other bird over
there In the polonaise. OF course they
understand cach other, or eise they
would keep still. :, 49,,
Would you like to be bird''
mot much" he replied with great
emphasis. "I wouldn't like the idea Of
getting up at five In the morning. and
washing in dew on a soggy hower-bed,
aud squawking of a lot of rapture over
n breakfast Of raw worms. Oh, no, l
don't want any bird in mine l would
rather sell suspenders on commission. "
"But suppose We were both BIRDS
she said with slight tremor In her
voice, 4lle.
"Then we should have to dodge the
cat, and boys with guns. and we'd have
TO live In trees and have dull time
and no lemonade through straws And
1 shouldn't have to call on you In tight
shoes and swallow. tailed coat. And
we'd sit ON a current bush, and kiss
with our bills-hard, cold, solidified
bone kisses just think of 1t! And l
shouldn't have any shirt front for you
to lay your head on. And, II l reached
out for handful Of waist, wouldn't
run the risk Of having yard Of my palm
torn of on pin which"
"What becomes of the birdsS abe
broke in, while an early .dawned tint
sufused her features.
eco South for their health, generallyj
but, II we were birds, We might be
knocked down with sticks and stuffed to
ornament n mantle. piece or lady's hat
How would you like to be filled with
lot Of sawdust aud chemicalsf'
mot much. I'd rather be stuffed
with ice cream and caramels. But l
mean what becomes Of the birds at last'
We never find them. Now the flowers
fade and blow away. and we know what
become, Of everything else, but we new
or find any dead birds lying In the garden
walk. Do their companions bear them
away and lay them lovingly beneath the
leaves, always had an idea that a
dainty poetic legend could be made OF
it."
'lt could be done, my dear, and Il
would make a nice $40 poem But don't
take any stock in musical valleys aud
happy spheres millions of miles away
when you figure on birds. They don't
70 10 any such place, my dear. They
generally 90 to the dime restaurant,
where they are worked into pies, or east
to play the difficult role of the quail on
toast"
She san1 on the sofa in hutter, and
he said he would he around on the NOR
row to take her to the mat, Puck.