Kansas City daily journal., 1895-06-09

savanna in that part OF the port of Spain
that Is called Tranquility-and all around
his little house was a Veranda enclosed in
close lattices, where the pink coralilla and
the golden amanda made perfect curtain
of blossoms.
found the curate, who was just out of bed
and was in slippers and pongee pajamas.
He was having his early tea, and cup
was brought for the boy. who shared his
bread and butter with a little green and
blue parrot, who kept hooking himself onto
Charley's chair, by his beak, and saying
in his hoarse little snuiilinS way, Charity.
This seems pretty queer way to go TO
school, sir" Charley said, laughing, and
1T is rather odd. Not much like the sort
of thing We used TO do at Eton. l can
Then they began to study history, and
how Columbus came sailing through the
warm seas and found this green island and
named it Trinidad uhe Trinity, because of
the tall peaks which are the first thing one
sees from the distance; and how he found
it peopled with handsome brown Indians,
whose name for the place was the Island
of Humming Birds" because there Were
thousands OF these tiny, jewel-colored birds
fitting about in the trees drinking honey
from the orchids and lowering vines. They
Were sacred 10 the Indians, who never
killed them, and 50 they multiplied until
they We're almost as many as flies Char
ley learned how Raleigh came later-look-
ing for FL Dorado, the golden city-and
took the island from the sparlards. and
how Sir Ralph Abercromhe had TO come
again and conquer it for the English sec
ond time. They had a lesson together in
Spanish, and Charley showed Mr.. Leigh
some botanical specimens he had collected
the day before in the mountaiis. and al
most before they knew 1t hilt-past 10
struck and lesson hours We're over.
BREAKFAsT WITH THE BIRDS.
BY this time the sun was VERY hot and
Charley and his pony got hone dripping
with sweat. lie had plunge AMI shower
bath and then, dressed for the dty in fresh
white linen, sat down with his mother in
4, a1 81 4, hnNA
real breakfast. All the bread md butter
eaten at the curate's was Just talen to stay
matters until the real meal cane cane. While
d!ilas. mangoes, FISH, and eggs md chick
en- the black butler-who wore a white
two fayorIte birds, the brilliant lame coll
ored troplon and the little black and gold
moriche. They were accustomedto break
fast with their master and mistres, and as
soon as they saw Charley they lew from
Carter's finger straight TO the able and
began 10 sing with all their mint They
settled on either side of his plat and ate
fruit and bits of bread he haded II to
them, and sometimes when he forgot TO
attend to their wants they !cooy helped
Themselves from his plate--for birds are
very tame in the tropics and eyey house
hold has its little familiar friendswh are
BETrBR THAN STAMP COLLECTING
After breakfast was over he and his
mother sat in the corridor and hearranged
his collection. He used to be interested in
stamps, but after the director n public
works persuaded Mrs. Brown TO et Char
ley 20 up into the high woods win him on
a surveying expedition he had mIle col
lection of his own very much mre inter-
estlng than stamps. First there was the
skin of a boa constructor, they kied while
squeezing deer to death, whlchW was nine
feet long, and filled one whole eawer of
his cabinet.
In another drawer was a cleYery stuffed
coral snake, the deadly little creaure that
is sometimes called the German dag, be-
cause its colors are like those o. the inn
per!al standard of Germany, and that has
no separate head, only what looS like a
tiny mouth and two little wickedeyes on
the blunt end of its body. Mrs. Eown al
ways shuddered when Charley opned that
drawer, the creature looked so snail and
unnatural, and so poisonous.
one shelf contained the skull a howl |
ing monkey. with the queer bone drum Il |
carries in its throat. and with which 1t |
makes the. lonely mountain forsts ring |
again. while the full moon is ring high |
In the heavens. There were teen OF the |
pecari-the little fierce wild hogs, who can |
drive even brave, strong man retreat |
before their white razor-like tuss, when |
they hunt in droyes. A portion o the cab |
met contained eggs of all th' strange |
birds OF the island from those o the wild |
parrots and the black king coDeaux to |
the tiny humming birds eggs. lmost as |
transparent and delicate as pin, bubbles. |
There were Esd and black lufby-bsads.