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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1900_005
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Alternative Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1900
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Date
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1900
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Creator
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Elizabeth Van Sant
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Description
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Elizabeth Van Sant transcribed letters
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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5 seem to encourage familiarity. She sleeps on the cornice over the door. Philip gave us a surprise soon after being released from his accustomed cage and turned loose in the bird-room. Though he has long been tame enough sit on our hands, and to hop from one finger to another, or to sit and preen his feathers, he had never ventured to alight upon our shoulders. However, the free coming of Olus to us seemed to arouse him to a pitch of jealousy that he could not endure; and before we realized the meaning of his indignant behavior, he had begun to alight upon our shoulders. At first, when he came, he proceeded immediately to drive Olus away, pursuing him about the room and pulling feathers. This was so like the bad manners of young and unruly human bipeds that I punished him after such misbehavior; a plunge or two head first into the bath seemed to help him recognize Olus' rights. Anyhow, he now sits contentedly on one shoulder with Olus on the other. Junior lays definite claim to Not-even, and will scarcely allow Philip to go near her, and will by no means allow him to sleep in the same tree with them. Junior and Not-even have selected twigs which they invariably occupy at night. They are mere inches apart, so they can reach each other and snatch a few feathers now and then. He will not let Not-even sleep beside him on his twig, though she is willing; and her twig is too small for two. Their relations are perhaps a bit ambiguous, considering for the moment Bipeds as a class, to be termed domesticity; but after all, they give one to think. One day the tree was turned during cleaning, and was so left, stand-
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Rights
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