Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1916 — RUNAWAY JAVA SPARROW IS RETURNED TO FOLD [ARTICLE]

RUNAWAY JAVA SPARROW IS RETURNED TO FOLD

Is Back With Hl* Borrowing Mato After Months Bojourn In Parts Unknown. New York.—Tommo, errant Java sparrow, is back at the Children’s Museum in Brooklyn after a month's sojourn in parts unknown, and while he Is busy telling it all, bird fashion, to his mate Quinnie, Miss Anna B. Gallup the curator at the museum, is trying to figure out whether fate or providence arranged the remarkable chain of circumstances attending Tommo’s flight aqd return. It was a month ago that Miss Cullup, assisted by Eugene A. McCarthy, one of the students at the museum, was -giving Tommo and Quinnie their baths when Tommo flew out -of the cage and disappeared through an open window.

"NdVer mind,” said Miss Gallup to the boy, "Tommo will come back." ' Days went by but Tommo, prodl-gal-like, did not return for the fatted seed. Quinnie, with every sign of grief, ate but little and spent most of the time with her beak through the wires of the cage looking toward tLe window through which Tommo had escaped. Mlsb Gallup feared the bird would die. Miss Nellie Francis MacCarthy. an aunt of Eugene, who lives near the museum, brought a Java sparrow in a box to Miss Gallup. The bird had flown that morning into the studio of Charles H. Budd’s gift shop, in Manhattan where Miss MacCarthy Is employed as an artist and designer. "Eugene has identified this bird as a Java sparrow,” Miss MacCarthy told Miss Gallup, “and as you lost one recently 1 have decided to present you with this one.” Miss Gallup examined the gray plumage, red beak and queer white spots on the sides of the face, that resemble little whiskers, and uttered an exclamation of joy. "It is Tommo!" she said and soon Tommo was back in the cage with Quinnie. There was a joyful reunion. Quinnie was her old self again and she and Tommo flew around the cage in an ecstasy of Joy. After dinner together Tommo listened patiently to a curtain lecture from Quinnie, and then entered upon a recital of his adventurers. To all appearances he has promised to settle down and become a model husband. At least, Quinnie’s manner would indicate such an agreement ,