[Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders]@TWC D-Link bookBeautiful Joe CHAPTER XI GOLDFISH AND CANARIES 18/22
"I've wanted it for a long time; it isn't good to keep them in globes, but how in the world did she find out? I've never told any one." Mrs.Morris smiled, and said; "Barry must have told her;" as she took the money from Carl to put away for him. Mrs.Montague got to be very fond of her new pet.
She took care of him herself, and I have heard her tell Mrs.Morris most wonderful stories about him stories so wonderful that I should say they were not true if I did not how intelligent dumb creatures get to be under kind treatment. She only kept him in his cage at night, and when she began looking for him at bedtime to put him there, he always hid himself.
She would search a short time, and then sit down, and he always came out of his hiding-place, chirping in a saucy way to make her look at him. She said that he seemed to take delight in teasing her.
Once when he was in the drawing-room with her, she was called away to speak to some one at the telephone.
When she came back, she found that one of the servants had come into the room and left the door open leading to a veranda. The trees outside were full of yellow birds, and she was in despair, thinking that Barry had flown out with them.
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