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THE SONG OF THE ANGELS.
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THE SONG OF THE ANGELS. 219 erally sunk down stupefied, and so were caught without a single struggle. They soon after began to droop their feathers, look very miserable, lose their appetite, and die. But all the birds that were caught did not act in the same way. One in partic- ular, I saw, when it found itself a prisoner, gave a most piteous look towards the aviary, to see if it could not catch the eye of one of its kind keepers; fortunately there was one on the look-out, who rushed to the spot, and, with all his force, struck the net such a heavy blow, that it broke in pieces, and the poor, silly, frightened Digitized by Google
