November, 2006
Anecdotes
** The Free Bird **
A little bird, upon a raw and gusty day, flew into the house and alighted in the lap of the fair Angelica. She held it, almost perishing, in her palms, smoothed its rumpled feathers, and pitied it as she felt its heart beat.
For several days she nurtured it tenderly, and put it in a warm nest, until the weather once again was soft and balmy; and the windows were wide open. The little creature flapped its wings, looking skyward.
"Stay with me," said Angelica, "for I love you, my darling. You shall have a beautiful cage with golden bars, and shall sip from goblets of crystal, and be fed with the choicest seeds from saucers of porcelain. I will treat you with the purest white sugar, and with dainties. Stay with me, stay with me, my darling!"
The little bird replied, "Since you give me my choice, dear lady, I must obey my instincts, though I love you dearly. I will come back and sing songs in your ears; I will alight on your finger, sip nectar from your lips; I will nestle in your bosom."
The little bird continued, "But the sun shines, the skies are blue, every flower blooms out in the paradise of earth; I must go to seek out my lost mate, and to enjoy my short life while the summer lasts, for the sweetest of all things is liberty."
Angelica kissed it tenderly, opened her snow-white hand, when it flew away, singing merrily, into the serene blue heaven.
Charades
My first is sung with solemn strain
In dim cathedral's vaulted fane;
My second, of the Indian weed
You should reject with scorn indeed;
My third, whene'er the day is done,
In purple splendor does the sun;
My whole is famed o'er land and sea,
The home of truth and liberty.
( The answer is Massachusetts )
The answer of Enigma in November
The word is Jackson
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