Show MAGPIE INVENTS NEW GAME tantalizes little flycatcher by holding tempting morsel in mouth while dancing about A young magpie came into the pow pon session ot of mr E J banfield who in his hie book my tropic isle gives an interesting account of the birds bird 8 so ao it wont went in and out ot 0 the kitchen at will and it if by chanc food was not spread out at t the ile so ao customer cuB cus tomed place it protested loudly and always effectively the bird spent many hours endeavoring to sing no cultured relative was present to teach the notes note of its kind so BO that in default it learned the complete vocabulary of the domestic poultry besides the more familiar calls and exclamations of its mistress A white eared cared flycatcher took up its abode near the house and the magpie a decent lapse of time admitted the stranger to its companionship the wild lard erless bird however had little time to play all its wits and energies were devoted to the me be rious business of life it knew none ot of the games that the magpie invented except one a kind of aerial peep bo to which the more intelligent bird lured it by means of a prize the magpie found a moth big of abdomen fat and brown a tempting morsel to any insectivorous bird envious ot of the dainty the wagtail fluttered and skipped about the magpie with cheerful chatter but the fluttering moth daintily held by the extremity of its body was alternately pro pre tented dented and denied while they danced about a bush the magpie tantalizingly hold held the moth for acceptance and hopped off as the wagtail was about to snatch it to the tame bird fortl led bed by the knowledge that its meals were provided it was all fun to the hungry wild one the moth dangling temptingly before it and whipped disappointingly ap away it was a game equally sincere but of varied interest the one assumed a whimsical air chuckling in encouraging tones tbt th other took it all in earnest at last unable to restrain an exclamation cla mation of delight the magpie unwarily slackened its hold and the moth fluttered off to be snapped up on the instant by the wild bird and gulped without ceremony |