| Show aar huby throat many macy times allay as u I 1 fait sit at work by my wi window ladow in the genial months of 0 summer aam cier there breaks in on in my er ear from ta abo garden gardea outside a a bonea ar as of gick illicit faint swoot chippi not louder than an t he notes of a cricket yet far more musical mu lol and swiftly for or I 1 know lino tho the sounds welli descry a lamming humming bird floating like ilka a live emerald my flowers As it plunges its ita fiill 1 11 into inlo their dainty beakers it mur its ils happy content in sott soft satisfied louse like liao the cooing coning of 0 a babo babe at it its ita mothers breast I 1 enuich the 0 pera glass always standing really randy for such ach iono mail and make aku it stud baudy y ot of my full fairy ry visitor us as long us it re mama iu eight hovering in the air on wings vibrating no rapidly wo we hear rather than go BOO 0 their marv marcellous marvellous ellous motion the bird pauses in front of each inviting a moment or more in a keenly searching attitude us as it to provo prove the tha full promise enticing it forward ere yielding ag itself up to tile liu warm allurement probing this thia cut cup of nectar still nd pawing ingaby ingby by I 1 that bat its choice arnolg tile flowers appears to be dictated by a purely capricious i fancy lot I 1 et it IH really intent on un an errante eft nail hom C w hat daffe rent erent from rom what lit ix generally led tile the tiny which rillo rifle the ilia 0 their honeyed lio nayed treasures forming the chief charm which attracts raeta it to toward word them it is fond of the pertained syr byrna I 1 I 1 P distilled iu in their 11 labors inborn to dorioa r 8 but takes it in the way of 0 a relish or a dressing for tile the cliesby morsels hidden in their deep recesses which h it seizes with tho the delicate forceps orcola tipping ha tubular tongue thus Tilita that which seems leoma to be ba nero more wayward coquetry with a bevy of beautiful blossoms bloB Boma is in truth the exercise of afi a stolen t ion the nature natura of the humming hummingbird bir 11 demanding a more substantial bieti diet I 1 than ion the banquet of sweets sweeta served barred up I 1 in a the heart ol of a fro fragrant graut corolla As a rule the nimble sylph depends ent entirely froly upon ripon its pinions for support while gleaning its ita food from floral repositories yet I 1 often observe it resting 1 I 8 ou on its blon blonder let leol foot when tile chance is offered for instance it if a leaf happens to project diro otly under a tige blobaum blo Baom it accepts lits of 0 the vantage ground though with tie the air of an aa unaccustomed proceeding it drops its slim logo loga usually tucked out of of sight g lit in billows of down bull and stands blonds perfectly till still on the green polla etal stal with wings quiet and oven aven folded until the quick repast is in over I 1 hava especially ally noticed this interesting 1 s an e 0 with plants pints ol at the balaam bale it at family f am i ly Balsan daw where the flowers spring iron from the exile aud and ono one or two in in every group beiting reiting just juit over a leaf prove U awkward r d to tea roach ch unless the bird in terru pta its ita llight flight and lakes weir enticing tidbits stand standing hIg these feathered guu buu blakes which make a ground 0 of I 1 my garden gardan are iu in the habit of it 11 rest rent from their elfin courtna courbes on the dry stretching out hero und nail there beyond be y oal tile green bougas bouab of an oak iu view ot of my window hore here they perch lor for varying intervals sometimes for many sehou ve minutes hou perhaps a half hour altogether un on birst alighting they busy themselves with affairs of aliu ill toilet combing their glassy plumes with the their if diminutive diml autive claws clans and drawing t tho lie wing feathers one ona by one cuts through agh tho the narrowly opened bek beat which is ia aftel ward chained eloi anti and polished by rubbing it back and forth vigorously against tile the perch ali this Is careful pilo process cess flu ally accomplished com complis hed the glistening atolies eit bit for a whilo while in a beatific state of cou coil temptation now motionless und and dreamy and again peering about from side bide to bido aide with their long sharp b bill ill thrust out outward ward like libonn an emphasized no note to 0 of f interrogation urs mrs sara bara A hall burd bard in harpers magazino magazine |
