ar way, answering her whistle
for whistle, moving his feet, sliding from one side to the other,
curtsying, lowering the body and flattening the head feathers, then
rising, stamping his feet, and drooping his wings. This he kept up as
long as she played second to him.

When this playfellow went away, the jay missed his dances and frolics.
He flew into her empty room, perched on the back of the rocking-chair,
where he had been wont to stand and pull her hair, and began a peculiar
cry. Again and again he repeated it, louder and louder each time, till
it ended in a squawk, impatient and angry, as much as to say, "Why
don't you answer?" After a while he began to whistle the notes she used
to imitate; finding that this brought no response, he returned to the
cry; and when at last he had exhausted all his resources, he came back
to my desk and consoled himself by talking to me.

A young lady in the family he greeted by flying at her, alighting on her
chair-back, clawing her neck, and squawking; and before a youth who
often teased him he trailed his wings on the floor, tail spread and
dragging also, uttering a curious "obble! obble!" something like the cry
of a turkey. The head of the household he met with stamping of the feet,
and no sound; while at a maid who came in to sweep he always flew
furiously, aiming for her head, and invariably frightening her half out
of her wits.

The jay was extremely wary about anything like a trap, and being always
on the lookout for one, he sometimes, like bigger persons, fooled
himself badly. Finding him fond of standing on a set of turning
bookshelves, I thought to please him by arranging over it a convenient
resting-place. He watched me with great interest, but, when I had
finished, declined to use the perch, though ordinarily nothing could
keep him from trying every new thing. I put a bait upon it in the shape
of bits of gum-drops, a favorite delicacy; but he plainly saw that I
wanted him to go to it, and in the face of the fact that I had
heretofore tried to keep him off the papers and magazines lying there,
he decided that it was suspicious. He flew so as almost to touch the
stick, and hovered before it to snatch off the candy placed there; but
alight on it he would not, and did not, though I kept it in place a
week.

In many ways this bird was wise; he knew exactly where to deliver his
blows to effect what he desired. A cage-door being fastened with fine
wire, he never wasted a stro