SPARROWS.
[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent " R, S.," in the Spectator of September 9th, and the writer in the Daily News who thought my daughter's " self-contemplating sparrows " worthy of notice, may be interested in the sequel of the story, which came to me from Bangalore by the last mail. One morning she came into her 'room and found that her maid had caught one of the miscreants, and had tied his legs together with soft wool. My daughter says :- " I demurredto this as cruel (though it did not hurt him, and he was quite quiet), but she implored me to let him stop on the window-sill for an hour or so as a punishment. So we tied a long woollen string to his leg, and let him hop about, hoping to make friends with him ; but as he refused all our overtures, after a short time we let him fly away. He must have gone straight to all his brothers and sisters, for since that day no sparrow luta ever appeared in my room, and my looking-glass no longer needs a covering, much to my maid's satisfaction, as before, it was a case of a clean toilet-cover every day."
Trusting this instance of the means of communication possessed by birds may interest some readers.—I am, Sir, &e.,
F. C.
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