However, he prophesied that the fashion can't continue much longer anyway, because there soon won't be any birds left, and then, he says, we'll have a world without its sweetest music.

It will be hushed by the folly of woman.
"Oh, Nell, don't you dislike to have anybody lecture you like that?
It makes one feel so uncomfortable.

I don't suppose it's so very wrong to wear bird trimming or our minister's wife wouldn't do it.

You know her black velvet hat with that big bird on it with the red points on the wings, is one of the most striking hats that come to church.

And her feather muff is so elegant, awfully expensive too.