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At the top of the stairs he stopped for an instant and cocked his head a bit worriedly towards the drawing-room where from some slow-brightening alcove bird-carol after bird-carol went fluting shrilly up into the morning. "Is that those blasted canaries?" he asked briefly. Very companionably the White Linen Nurse cocked her own towsled head on one side and listened with him for half a moment.

He was very fond of what he called "his yellow pets," yet he never kept a pair of birds or a goldfish, if he had a good offer for them. He slept alone in a large, sunny room at the top of the house. By his own request, it was barely furnished, and there he raised his canaries and kept his goldfish.

Moreover, quite aside from these merely technical drawings, Professor Haeckel has made hundreds of paintings purely for recreation and the love of it, illustrating and that too often with true artistic feeling for both form and color the various lands to which his zoological quests have carried him, such as Sicily, the Canaries, Egypt, and India.

"Yes, I'll help you listen to the birds sing. Do you know I can almost hear them?" James drew a deep breath and caught her swiftly to him. "New York will have to wait till to-morrow. The birds will sing to-night and we will not count the cost." "Yes, my lord," she answered demurely. For to-night she wanted to forget that their birds were only caged canaries.

The living shells of Madeira and Porto Santo are in like manner those of a temperate climate, although in great part differing specifically from those of Mogador. In the Canaries, especially in the Grand Canary, the same marine Upper Miocene formation is found.

All the way along, bobolinks, canaries, and song-sparrows had been singing to her, the swallows and red-throats had been talking; everywhere among the soft spongy mosses, the singing frog of the Canadian spring had been filling the air with its one soft whistling note. Zilda had not heard them, but now she stopped suddenly with head bent, listening eager, enraptured.

If you hurry and come down to the shore, you can get on to their ship which is very fast and escape. But you'll have to hurry." "That's a good idea," said the Doctor "splendid!" And he called his animals together at once, said Good-by to the canaries and ran down to the beach.

"We grow these seeds for our hens and the Goldies always get their share." "I wonder if that is why they are such a beautiful yellow," said Dodo. "'Flying Sunflower' would be a nice name for them. No, you needn't laugh at me, Nat; the man in the bird store said he gave Canaries red pepper to make them red, so I don't see why the seed of yellow sunflowers shouldn't make birds yellow!"

"These are riches which we possess in abundance, and your feasts cannot terminate more agreeably in your quarters than with our Verdun sugar-plums. Besides the exquisite delicacy of their sugar, cinnamon and aniseed, they possess a sweet, fragrant odour like the breeze of the Canaries, that is to say, like our sincerest attachment for you, of which you will also receive proof.

The cool brilliance of the morning, the cheerful warbling of little, wild canaries in the bushes as he passed, for once failed to thrill him with joy of life. He was wondering whether to go straight to the house and search it if necessary to make sure that she had not been there, or whether Indian cunning would serve him best.