Excerpt from Birds I Have Kept in Years Gone: With Original Anecdotes and Full Directions for Keeping Them SuccessfullyWhen my mother appeared on the scene, which she soon afterwards did, she greatly shocked my youthful sense of the fitness of things by advising the immediate destruction of the poor suffering bird, putting it out of its pain, she said but I cried lustily, and leave was given me to keep it, if I could.I had not the least doubt that I could, and successfully too, and at once ran off to the nursery with my prize, in order to show it to Victoire, the nursemaid, who had had a good deal of experience in similar matters, and, as soon as she had seen it, authoritatively pronounced that the bird would do very well. Where was I to put it? Why, in the alcove bed, of course. Said alcove bed being a recess in the wall, opposite the window, where I used to play sometimes, for with us it was never put to the use intended for it by the ancient builders of the house.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.