... bullfinches you so much wanted, and I recommend the bullfinches to your imitation. Bullfinches, yoa must know, have no natural note of their own, and never sing, unless taught; but will learn tanes better than any other birds. This they do by attention ...

... attuned to the full compass and power of the nightingale. The effect was most pleasing, although of course not equal to the natural notes of this bird, not one of which he retained. Indeed many birds are almost, if not entirely, imitative, and, in default of ...

... kingdoms. In a few weeks he received from Berne a packet containing a complete collection of foreign stamps with this good-natured note: The commission which you gave me to procure some stamps of foreign countries to complete your collection caused me some ...

... be no mistake in the matter, as a Renter's telegram, 'which brought the news' to London on Thursday morning, with a very natural note of interrogation after the figures, was confirmed by a second telegram to pre- cisely the same effect later in the evening ...