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THE SONG OF THE ANGELS.
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THE SONG OF THE ANGELS. 217 they were prisoners. Some of these birds I found he used, after having caught them, as decoy birds; he fastened the threads to their foot, but let them go into the aviary and about among the others. They looked just the same as before they were caught; they sang quite as loud; in- deed they seemed to sing louder than be- fore; but their song was not so cheerful, it seemed rather forced and strained. They did all they could to draw and tempt the others to follow them, and told them what beautiful things they could have, and tried to make them discon- tented with their quiet home, plain food, Digitized by Google
