Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — A Baby Canary’s Music Lenon. [ARTICLE]

A Baby Canary’s Music Lenon.

In the account of a pair of canaries and their offspring, which is published in the Ladies* Home Journal, Florence Morse Kingsley tells how the oldest baby bird, as soon as he learned to flutter from one perch to another and to reach for a seed and crack it, was put into a cage by himself and hung out on the veranda near the father bird, who was named Wee Willie Winkle, and was a superb singer. Then the baby bird’s education began. First, he learned to jump fearlessly into his china bathtub and flutter bis wings and get himself gloriously wet, just as father did. Next, he cuddled himself into a delightfully comfortable little bunch on his perch and listened attentively while Wee Willie Winkle sang his wonderful song. The second week we heard a funny, sweet little chirping and gurgling. It was the young canary; he had begun to study his profession in earnest Hour after hour the little fellow practiced, happily and patiently. One day he trilled a little trill, and the next day he had learned three new gurgles, and the day after that be the trill and the gurgles together and added a longer trill on a higher key. In three weeks’ time we were asking, "is it Wee Willie Winkle who 1s singing, or the baby?"