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Show Freedom. A touching story was told of Tamber-Hk, Tamber-Hk, the tenor singer. Passing through Madrid one bright spring morning, he visited the birdmarketand boughtevery bird in it. He ordered the cages to he carried into the Plaza and opened. The Bunny air w;is filled with a fluttering host, aud from hundreds of tiny throats burst songs of delight. Tamberlik looked after them with tears of pleasure in his eyes, crying, "Go, and be free, my brothers!" A similar story is told of a kindly old Virginian, who used to celebrate the Fourth of July by buying up all the caged squirrels, rabbits and birds in the neighborhood, and then setting them free, that they, too, might rejoice in tho day of independence. The creatrres to whom he gave happiness are long since dead, but the children who saw hia kindly act have carried its influence through their lives. Youth's Companion. |