May 8 idem dull To observer was only ar when 1 was rung up by a lady to tel that she was being ata! her garde: v a Blackbird: had I eard of such case and what should be about it only did the bird attack her (pecking back of her head) but it purposely bespattered her with its ever ready supply of: he substance which has helped to make Chile famous. Thinking the matter the scene of allusion to ks came to my mind ne form of the old rhyme which finished u y stating that "the maid was in the the clothes, when by flew snipped off her nose": perhaps after was something in it, and Y merely trying to be funny so, in a perfectly judicial frame of mind I went off to investigate the case of the man-eating Blackbird. When the lady led me to the scene of her adventures the big bad Blackbird soon put in an appearance, and I must conte: have never seen a finer specimen of i nor have I ever heard such a loud harsh cry as the bird produced; but while the two of us were together he did not make any attack. I then asked the lady to walk past the tree again while I walked away... and the bird immediately made a low swooping attack at her head, not letely and effectively enough tọ prove
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