Karana describes the lush flowers and the many birds of the spring in great detail. She finds a pair of birds with yellow bodies and scarlet head have made a nest in a small tree near her home. In the nest she discovers there are two eggs. When they hatch she lays out food for the mother to feed her young. Although the babies are ugly and gray, Karana takes them and puts them in a small cage made of reeds so that when the rest of the birds migrate she will have these two as friends.
The birds soon grow to be as beautiful as their parents had been and make soft cries. When they outgrow the small cage Karana clips the tips of their wings so they cannot fly away and lets.....
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