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Even cats learn it, and I have heard of one which is "good for three rabbits a week." Dogs, however, bring everything home, while puss feeds herself luxuriously before thinking of her owner. But whether dog or cat, cock or jackdaw, all animals bred among Gipsies do unquestionably become themselves Rommanised, and grow sharp, and shrewd, and mysterious.

No wholesome food comes amiss to him grub, slug, or snail, fruit, eggs, a live mouse or a dead rat, and he can deal with them all. Such are the magpie, the crow, the jackdaw, and all of that ilk; and these are the birds that are found in all countries and climates, and prosper wherever they go. But all birds cannot play that part. One is timid, another fastidious, another shy but ingenious.

And she thanked the Jackdaw till he grew quite modest and shy. "What is it for? What can you do with it?" he asked. "With this," she answered, "I can make anything beautiful come true! I can give you whatever you ask; you have but to ask, and you shall have." Then the little Jackdaw, being moon-struck, and not knowing the value of things, said, "Oh, if I could only sing like a nightingale!"

"How many chocolates can you eat at a pinch?" whispered Jackdaw in her ear. "Oh, forty," replied Maggie; "but I should be rather ill afterwards." "We've got some in our pockets. They're a little bit clammy, but you don't mind that?" "I don't want any just now, dear boy; and I'll tell you why. I want to be really starving hungry when the picnic begins."

"It seems to me," thought the Jackdaw, "that as soon as the beautiful becomes true, God does not intend it to be for us." He got up softly from among his brothers. "I will carry you down," he said. And without more ado, he picked it up and carried it down out of the nest, and laid it in the long grass at the foot of the tree.

The birds were to be taught to speak, and to do wonders of all kinds, but Aldonza's bird was found one morning dead, and Giles consoled her by the promise of something much bigger, and that would talk much better. Two days after he brought her a young jackdaw.

"If they had come down on us yelling for our scalps, we would have had a merry meeting. But they're either gone to bring their friends or they're trying to take us in the back. I'll guard the front, and you keep your eyes on the hinder parts, though a jackdaw could scarcely win over these craigs." A sudden burst of sun came out, while Ringan and I waited uneasily.

And he began to feel the gravest doubts as to whether his jackdaw had really been of use. Be this as it might, there was no doubt at all that Dr Budge was really grateful, and as the days went on Ambrose began to like his master more and more, and to feel quite at home with him.

I had taken him to see the jackdaw, and the little bear that Bobby brought from foreign parts; and jacky had bitten his finger so humorously, and we had been so merry, and I had told him again how much I wished that he could change places with father. And now! I feel more than see that he is drawing nigh me.

"Say `Ta-ta' to him, and then he'll go," said the jackdaw. "Why, we're not afraid, after all," said all the birds together; "let's all have a fly at him at once and beat him off." "Who'll go first?" said the jackdaw. "Why, I will," said the tomtit.