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168 J 22 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
" Yes, and the little humming-bird sat
perched on my finger, and we kissed each
other, for we had already learnt to love one
another. I had tried to read a book about
the birds and other animals which inhabited
this zone; but I did not feel much inclined
for reading, as in those hot climates one
gets very lazy, I can tell you, my young
friends."
" Oh, don’t you wish you were there ?" said
one little boy to another, chaffing him, and
nudging him in his side with his elbow.
" But not only the heat, but also the birds
themselves prevented my reading, for there
was such an incessant chatter and clatter
going on beside me, as if they wanted to draw
my attention away from the dead letters to the
real, living specimens. I looked up, and
discovered a little farther in amongst the garden
trees,—in fact it is all garden there,—a whole
colony of little birds, running to and fro on
a kind of suspension bridge, about the same
level as my own hammock, and vat the one
end of it they had built a large gateway, or
arbour, through which they kept darting in and
out, busily engaged in placing some curious
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