<h2 id="c14">A DAINTY LOVER.</h2>
<p>All animal life is wonderful and much
of it is beautiful, but it seems to me there
can be nothing prettier or more subtle
in all the immense accumulation of the
folk lore of human courtship and marriage
than the following practice of a certain
Mexican bird.</p>
<p>He belongs to a rarely beautiful species
of the Paradise family.</p>
<p>To shield the privacy of his wooing
and wedding he builds a dainty little
cone-shaped hut, about which he contrives
a marvelous little landscape garden.</p>
<p>First he makes a sward of green moss
and beds and parterres of crimson berries,
tiny bright flowers and gold and
silver sand and grains. Here and there
he puts a pearly pebble or tiny pink shell.
And so long as his love making lasts he
drags away and replaces each flower as
it fades, keeping the little Eden tidy, gay
and sweet for his tiny love.</p>
<p>This sounds like fiction, but is scientific
fact.</p>
<p><span class="lr"><span class="sc">Louise Jamison.</span></span></p>
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