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This is a fable of the Bird and the Ink-Pot. The Bird inhabits a curious building on Bow Street, and during, the winter months refuses to be tempted from the comfort of his tiled nest, even when summoned by Telegram. The Ink-Pot's den is a short distance from the Bird's cage but what a gap it is in fact. Strangely enough, the Bird was originally drawn by Ink from its neighbor, but that is never admitted--not even by the Ink-Pot, whereupon the cover was clapped on; after a small tempest and flapping of wings...
...Bird in the Ointment...
...like books that speak of "this America of ours", but once in a great while we do appreciate the sentiment. By all means don't make the American eagle scream, but after he has been dubbed everything from hawk to cuckoo it is only fair that the poor bird should say something to remind us that he is, after all, an eagle...
...cabbage. How sneeringly he looks upon the swine, how snubbingly upon the kine. But well should he be proud; it the recent Hotel Exposition he was elected the nation's most popular dish. Every day more diners choose him for their pieces de resistance than any other man, bird, or beast in the country. He is the chief mouth-waterer and gastrician of the land...
...which the undergraduate wants is inexpensive and easily procured. It has not the rare qualities attributed to the Chinese "bird's nest song", but to the average mortal as a steady diet it is infinitely more attractive...