The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-12-11
A BIRD HOSPITAL.
Tho Feathered Patients Of Queer
Boston Institution.
Parrots Predominant and Keep the Place
In an Uproar with Their PrattIe-
Smart Sayings of the
S2ucy Creatures.

was the quick interrogative, and
Don't / want to what2" was the
equally quick reply.
WHY, doncher wanter kiss me, yol'
iooi" shouted the parrot.
The lady lent over the cage, and the
quarter CT a century old bird il its sub
iled green dress imprinted a kiss on the
iii.s that ended the feathered member
of the family with You're a naughty
aird!1
The sharp eyes of the parrot for min
Ute were downcast. He studied the
sand in the bottom of the cage, but.
rldng his head erect, summoned cour-
Sc and SAID in q doubtful way: "Well,
don't know"
rev persons know that there IS bird
aospital in Boston in Mount Vernon
rect, ard few know how interesting
-lrds are until they visit the GONZALES
cnt ones IN their boarding house.
IN The ward OF the hospital there was
! colony of aristocratic birds from the
sack lay and Brookline housed for the
nmmer. Their mistresses had gone off
the seasirore or mountains. and some
al crossed to the old world, but their
gathered pets were summering IN the
est End, lest by change of atmosphere
le tiny things contract asthma OF
ionchitis, for birds have lungs, ard
ny deiicate ones, too, and while in days
one by, like the babies of tho stems, IT
as tie survival of the ftteat, today
,cy are sent to a bird physician, who.
treatment, restores vitality to tho
I;hcriess flesh and sends the warbler
tcii 90 It's home as fat as butter, with
plumage rs yellow as gold. And, by
way. the healthy canary is rotable
VI the yellovishness of its IluInage.
d la@y tightly be set down as an adj
Jyate Of the gold standard
Che bird hospital on Mount Vernon
rect has existed for five years, anG
uc Of the birds there have been wilietl
the Keeper of the birds boarding
case with fund sufficient to maintain
,sn during their mortal scjourn." a
u aged preacher would say. I her,
Q &, Of them housed in comfort, aut'
~ spending an hour among tEeIa ore
.~afns many of their curious ways.
some Of the canaries have bells hang
.pg in their cages, and one of them has
zee habit of telling everyone about thai
e is cross by pulling the bell. The
ore ferocious he feels to his fellow
rda ard lis mistress the ha3 der he
~ az at the bell.
st there is another kind of bell,
.ti. .t.i.!a Tine it is spelled belle" They
, a' Juliet" for she is such an IN
oTalle ilirt; indeed, some of the
,ll- ,ldcEt birds whisper lnorc av-
TX ;luas than that about her eharac-
~. 3.c Ierever Juliet goesa balf-dozen
,r5.-,3 Of her male admirers fellow Eca
isa,l ,he has caused considerable ieai
ecs Fl Ing in at least one bird colony
oad SEES quite a young one, too. Ees'
en- IA a,l2nce has been the cause Of sew
tal changes in her domain lately She
as even been confined to n solitary cell
IS means of discipline.
oo,ly," another parrot, sings Gu
9as ditty, conspicuous for its want G.
t5thm, but he enjoys it ard laughs
earthly over his production OF ''Docdy
cody, puddin' and pie; when the girls
come out to play, Doody, Doody runs
away"
The letter e. in girls bothers his vo-
al organs, and while he is trying to
ling it he twirls it out as if it were the
smoke from u cigar, until his falsetto
tones are piped so high that he loses
himself and bursts forth in o peal of
au9bter intensely suggestive, and then
goes on with his story.
'rIlere are canaries by the dozen, and
ratad at all prices; paroquets ard paro-
tiust tes. mule birds, which indicate their
.acceto perfection by their stubborness.
and 4 beautiful Virginia nightingale.
hich every traveller in the south would
as the little fellow that sings
i tier Garl. in the rice fields of his native
state but is stiIl as mouse by day.
"Tippie," one of the merriest and
most active of the paroquets, is con-
family singing: I'm a quiet little Tip
,e," even though the people about him
declare he is not.
The PARROTS, of course, claim all atten-
ION, because of their ability to express
language, and one of them actually re-
cites "I'winllle, twinkle, little star, in
very audible tones. The habits of the
5irds are so much like those of human
beings that it is their delight to sit at
The window and look out at the passers-
by rs if they really understood what
they saw. and they are so jealous that
4 one is more petted than another they
snow their disp!easure by tapping their
wings against the sides of their cages.
In the matter of bathing there is .
great difference with birds. Some just