"We have argued about his going to Grand Canary by a mail-boat, but he's obstinate.

"We know that the bird from the isles of Canary Is fed, foreign airs to sing in a fine cage; But your note from a cackle so seldom does vary, The fancy of man it cannot much engage.

But there came to the Crumpetty Tree Mr. and Mrs. Canary; And they said, "Did ever you see Any spot so charmingly airy?

A bright fire burned in the Klondike heater, and from the kitchen came the cheerful song of a canary.

Her dear little canary, Barry, died with her.

The boo-habeeba has a note infinitely preferable to that of the canary, or nightingale."

] CHAPTER 2 ELEPHANT'S DAY "Elephant?" asked Tweaty, a yellow canary who was looking up at the large gray beast.

Di had been caring for her canary and she carried her bird-bath and went to the well, and Lulu divined that Di had deliberately disregarded the handy kitchen taps.

"Now," the aunt cried into the noise, "if you behave like two canary birds who suddenly have become crazy, no human being can understand a word.

The first that broke silence, was good old Ben, Prepar'd before with Canary wine; And he told them plainly, that he deserved the bays, For his were called works, where others were but plays.

He set sail again on the 14th of July, and endeavoured to bear up for Cape St Vincent; but, owing to a strong north-east wind, which on that coast is called Agione, he was forced to beat up to windward forty-five days at a great distance from land, and was driven into dangerous and unknown seas near the Canary islands.

There was time to buy California jewels in the bazaarstourmalines and pearl-blistersbefore the car came up, purring sweetly, and looking innocent as a cat gorged with canary birds.

But as she was accompanied by a young man, who bought her magazines and papers, and bade her an excited farewell, sending his love to various members of a family, and promising to feed the canary, this was not seriously considered.

I even"he smiled"I even promised to feed the canary.

[Illustration: Santa Maria] His course led first to the Canary Islands, where he turned and went directly westward.

Instead of following the old route to America by way of the Canary Islands, the West Indies, and Florida, he sailed due west across the Atlantic, and brought up on the shore of a cape which he named Cape Cod.

For our ship sailing towards the Canary islands, we were chased by a Salee rover; and in spite of all the haste we could make by crowding as much canvas as our yards could spread, or our masts carry, the pirate gained upon us, to that we prepared ourselves to fight.

In this place I began to consider that the Canary and Cape de Verde islands lay not for off: but having no instrument, I knew not what latitude, or when to stand off to sea for them; yet my hopes were, I should meet some of the English trading vessels, who would relieve and take us in.

" "My Canary is never sad," said Nat: "he is always singing.

They often have hard times in winter, and when I am here at the Farm I always scatter canary seed on the snow for them.

THE INDIGO BIRD (THE BLUE CANARY) "Blue birds and blue flowers are both rare; you can count our really blue birds on the fingers of one hand, and a Blue Canary is even stranger than a green rose or a black tulip.

THE INDIGO BIRD (THE BLUE CANARY) "Blue birds and blue flowers are both rare; you can count our really blue birds on the fingers of one hand, and a Blue Canary is even stranger than a green rose or a black tulip.

"The Indigo Bird has many of the Canary's gentle ways, and though his music is not so fine or varied as that of the Goldfinch or Song Sparrow, he sings a sweet little tune to his brown mate on her nest in the bushy pasture.

"It was in the geraniums by the dining-room window, eating the seed I tipped out of my Canary's cage when I cleaned it," continued Dodo.

"Mammy Bun said it was a Blue Canary, but Nat said it couldn't be, and I forgot to ask about it.