Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — A Lookingglass for the Canary. [ARTICLE]

A Lookingglass for the Canary.

The following interesting story of how a canary was cured of homesickness was told by W. G. Evans: “Not long go my wife purchased a canary at a bird store. It had been accustomed to companions of its kind at the store, but at our house it was entirely alone. The pretty little songster was evidently homesick. It would not sing, it would not eat, but just drooped and seemed to be pining away. We talked to it, and tried by every means in our power to cheer the bird up, but all in vain. My wife was on the point of carrying the bird back to the stqre when one day a friend said: ‘Give him a piece of lockingglass.’ Acting on this suggestion, she tied a piece of broken mirror about the size of a man’s hand on the outside of the cage. The little fellow hopped down from his perch almost immediately, and, going up close, looked in, seeming delighted. He chirped and hopped about, singing all the pretty airs he was master of. He spends most of his time before the glass, and when he goes to sleep at night he will cuddle down as close to the glass as he can, thinking, very likely, that he is getting nearer to the pretty bird he sees so often. ” St. Louis Globe-Democrat.