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He looked upon Koko as a friend, but when a friend of Koko's--a bird with an inquisitive mind and three red feathers in his tail--dropped in one day to inspect the newcomer, he resented the intrusion, and screaht He would laugh and shout when taken on the lagoon in the dinghy, and ht-coloured corals below

Ah s they tell us about their babies! They see e cannot see: the first unfolding of that mysterious flower, the oon Dick had been rowing; he had ceased, and was letting the boat drift for a bit E the child on her knee, when it suddenly held out its arms to the oarsman and said: "Dick!"

The little word, so often heard and easily repeated, was its first word on earth

A voice that had never spoken in the world before had spoken; and to hear his na he has created is the sweetest and perhaps the saddest thing a man can ever know

Dick took the child on his knee, and from that moment his love for it waselse on earth