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Title
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The Omaha Bird Room
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Date
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1903
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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[Page 27] assent to being tagged all day and having a very-near perch-mate all night. IT seemed like a perfect set-up. But there must have been a rift; for soon Olus was a mere discard, and the Jap was flirting with Goldie, the younger male oriole. Goldie, too, was a good sport; he carried on, preening and being pursued; there may be, indeed, (who may say?) an oriolic code of ethics which indicates procedure. And what did Goldie get? Goldie got the mitten! And very recently. For now the Jap -fickle Oriental! -has another love affair on her "hands"; this time, the cardinal -that dignified F.F.V. bird! The cardinal pays never the slightest attention to the Jap, though submitting with very good grace to the eternal tagging and snuggling. Of course, preening is out -and lucky for the Jap; for that gros beak could snap a leg or break a wing without conscious effort. The Jap seems perfectly contented to be merely near the cardinal, attention or no attention, and all day long and all night is seldom far away. It would appear that the jap simply must have someone to love; and we humans have wondered -simply as a mental excursion -whether we, the outsiders, might have come in for a share of that vast affection, had the Jap been our only boarder. During the spring the grosbeaks, oriole, wood thrush and cardinal sing. During that season also the Jap utters a quaint succession of notes, hardly to be called a song but very delightful. Erratic notes and occasional songs are heard during all seasons, but on the whole the
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Rights
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The Omaha Bird Room