They only know it is the style, and they don't stop to inquire whether it can be indulged in innocently or hurtfully.

Now I believe that if their attention was particularly called to it, the most of them would quit it." Miss Katharine brightened into a smile and half unclasped her little satchel.
"If a bird could talk," pursued the lame girl, "what a revelation it could make.

What lovely things it could tell us of that upper kingdom of the air where it floats and the distant land it sees! What sweet secrets of nature it knows that man with all his wisdom can never find out.

And then its gift of song! Why, if thousands and thousands of dollars were spent in training the finest voice in the world it could never equal the notes of a bird.

A woman who could perfectly imitate a lark's carol would make her fortune in a month.