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Show A Happy Bird Family In Ithaca? N.Y. there lives a lady who has as many as one hundred canary birds in one room. Mrs. Ellie Ellis is the lady's name. The floor of the room is covered with nice, clean sawdust, and there are two pretty trees, in the boughs of which the birds swing and sing and sing and swing until one might suppose that their little heads would become dizzy, or their musical little throats wear out. What is very interesting is that ninety-eight of the birds are the children or grandchildren of one pair and such children! Some of them are as yellow as a ball of yellow ??yphr; others are green, many black, a few nearly white, and almost all variegated. Mrs. Ellie (Ellis) knows every bird in the room, for every one of them has a name - Rob (bob), Chick, Keet, Quee?, Cho-we, or some such name and she can tell the exact age to a day, of every bird. The only door opening into the room has a wire screen in the place of glass, so that the little fellows may have plenty of air, and in summer time a fire-screen takes the place of the panes of glass. All around the room are little boxes or cages, with doors open and covers off, and in there the members of the family sleep with heads under wing, all night. Perhaps Mrs. Ellis has the largest bird cage in the United States. |