The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-26


 often fed him on the piazza, his criel
 attracted many other birds, and on' day I counted nine different specie:
 which had come to see him either iron sympathy or curiosity, Amongst these visitors were a pair of redstarts, pail of Baltimore orioles, two chebecs, { catbird. a robin, an oven bird, and z red-eyed vireo. The vireo seemed the most interested of all and, after hoy ering near for little while, flew away Presently she returned with mouthfu of food which seemed most anxious tc give to the little jay, but, although she came down on to the rail of the piazza she would not trust herself within it. Of course this may have been another vireo. and have no way of proving that it was not, but it certainly seemed at the time as though the first one , had seen and heard the young jay call 1 ing for food. and had gone and pro- cured some on purpose.
 Tn ten days the little bird began to peck little on it's own account, and soon after that he ceased to be nuis- ance. In two weeks took the splint from his leg, and found tlia.t the bone had knit beautifully. But luck was against him, and few days later he managed to break the limb again, this time in the fleshy part. It was broken in such a way as to make setting out of the question, so I amputated 1t with a steriized razor, bound up the stump with silk thread, and the next day the bird was as cheerful as ever.
 r. AL. ', y1 the garden. except on particular occa- sions. when he was In a room upstairs. Here he would amuse himself for hours. grooming softly to himself and at times breaking out into louder chuckes and calls He soon learned to know my footstep. even nthe road, more than fifty feet from the house, and several seconds before I came into sight he would fly to the window and commence to call. As soon as appeared, he be- came franctic and If the window was opened for him he would fly straight to my hand.
 very fond of scratching his head with his foot, and after the accident felt sorry to think that he would no longer be able to do thls. But he met the problem very readily by standing on the well leg and scratching his poll with his stump.
 His favorite food was raw meat, but he was also fond of blackberries, wild cherries, crackers and flies. The latter he often caught at the windows or picked from the walls and ceilings, but he much preferred to have me catch them for him, and then take them on the wing from between my thumb and finger.
 He spent large part of his time on my writing table, where he seemed to thoroughly enjoy himself. He would take q pen holder and all, and roll 1t | about the table until it fell to the floor. | There he would follow it and chase 1t abott. and occasionally bring 1t back f 0 the table. Then he would often ! bring his pieces of raw meat and drop ! hem into the ink well, or wedge them between the leaves of book or into packet of envelopes. He also had an ! habit of hopping onto my writing pad and smearing the wet ink Ill over the paper with his feet and
  ake my pen away from me. Sometimes lis pranks were very trying. For in- tance. very large spider had made lis web in a corner of the piazza, and or several days series of interesting observations were made. One morning s watched the web there was whirr f wings, flash of blue, and the spider vas gone. On another occasion I had ust opened a turtles egg and taken ut a well-advanced embryo which I intended to put in alcohol. While ras preparing the jar, I left the tur- le in a basin of water. Without any the jay swept down, snatched he turtle from the water. and knocked he bowl half across the floor. I wanted ha turtle, so I gave chase, but to no urpose. The bird swept round the oom two or three times at full speed. nd shrieking with exultation. Sud enly he alighted on a bracket and 'ith one gulp swallowed my precious lrtle. Several times I had families of oung mice, and whenever they were eing examined the jay was sure to lake dash at them if he were In the ,om. He also enjoyed teasing the red
  luirrels by alighting on their cage and acking at their feet If I came In sud- anly and caught him at any mischief. 9 would open his mouth and utter a lrious squawk of surprise as much , to say: Hello! I'd no idea you ere around"
 He was very fond of bathing and if , bath were given him, he would and on the rim of the drinking water iil and othe best he could. If he was ,ry thirsty, he would drink by him If. but what he liked much better as to have me dip my hand in the ater and then take the drops from e tips of my fingers.
 When he was offered food, he would t until he was no longer hungry. en he would fill his throat and mouth Id fly away. In this manner, I have en him carry off nine wild cherries once. He would do the same thing th bits of raw meat, and afterwards edge them into cracks and corners r future use Whenever he came in lngry from the garden, he flew raight to one of these stores, pulled f thn fop6 and n +a Aputbiro bor5