Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — It Knew the Pin Trick. [ARTICLE]

It Knew the Pin Trick.

A lady who had lost a canary happened to be attracted by a bird that was hopping about in its cage in the front window of a house in New York. Thinking that it looked very like her own, she knocked at the house door and asked a few questions about it. She was told that it had been found one cold morning sitting on the win-dow-sill, and taken in and cared for. The lady then said her bird could perform the pretty feat of picking up a pin and sticking it in the carpet. Being allowed to test this bird, the cage was opened and a pin thrown on the floor. The canary at once flew down to it, picked it up in its bill, and cleverly stuck it upright in the carpet; after which it burst into song, as if rejoicing at its success. The folk of the house, believing that the lady had proved her ownership of the bird, permitted her to take the songster away to her own home. Most men are anxious for' long life, bat ! the lawyer enjoys a brief existeaee.