And bore the olive-branch to glad his sight
Whose hand had smooth’d so oft its ruffled plumes.”
Lady F. Hastings.
“Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves,
That could not live asunder day or night.”
Shakespeare.
TAME DOVES.
IT is always interesting to note how gentle kindness shown towards our pet animals and birds will bring out various traits of character in them. Curious differences will be observed even between specimens which are of the same age and family and have been treated exactly alike from their earliest years. A pet creature can only show its true nature when it is brought up so kindly as to be without fear. Alas, how seldom this is the case!