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The girl was Ee Just by her elbow stood a little bowl made from half a cocoa-nut, and filled with so the bird Dick had found it in the woods two years ago, quite s They had fed it and ta on the roof at night, and appearing regularly at meal times

All at once she held out her hand; the bird flew into the air, lit on her forefinger and balanced itself, sinking its head between its shoulders, and uttering the sound which formed its entire vocabulary and one means of vocal expression--a sound from which it had derived its name

"Koko," said Emmeline, "where is Dick?"

The bird turned his head about, as if he were searching for his , and holding hier, as if he were some enamelled jewel she wished to admire at a little distance They made a pretty picture under the cave-like shadow of the breadfruit leaves; and it was difficult to understand how this young girl, so perfectly formed, so fully developed, and so beautiful, had evolved fro, as far as the beauty of her was concerned, had happened during the last six months