Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — Musical Jealousy. [ARTICLE]

Musical Jealousy.

A singular incident in natural history occurred lately at Chester, Englaud. A thrush, in a happy state of freedom, was trilling its notes in the orchard below the walls, near the “ wishing steps,” when its music excited similar efforts from a caged bird of the same species, which was suspended in front df the adjacent houses. These feathered songsters persevered in raising their melodies to higher and highejr if in earnest rivalry, wheffWddenly the bird among the trees darted from its perch upon the wicker cage of its competitor, broke the bars, entered it, and com-

menccd an assault upon the musical captive—the owner of which, hearing the unusual noise, came out, took the aggressor prisonerjfjand, sold it into bondage. The ill-teittpMfed thrush had therefore paid the penalty of sacrificing its freedom to its jealousy. This anecdote is a fact, and ppt written, as it might seem to be, for the purpose of pointing a moral against musical jealousies among human vocalists.— Dura-, fries Herald.