There was the landlord's aviary of canary-birds, so hardy that they lived in the open air all the year round.

There were the ferrets in a cage.

Not far off, in a proximity which must have profoundly interested the ferrets, there was an enclosure of white rabbits.

There was a wild duck which had been picked up injured in the leg one cold winter, and had become tame and followed them about now from place to place.

There were a peacock and a peahen, a sty full of tiny, squeaking black piglets, hives of bees, all manner of pleasant country things.