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[Belak <cla...@gr...>]

Cannot comprehend. So when she asked us we were wont to bid her go to Master Sweetheart, for he knew the truth and spake it. It
is now to tell of an adventure which on a time befell in that full fair garden of which you have heard me speak. In this garden lived many birds
of surpassing beauty and most rapturous song, and among
them was one that they called Joyous, for that he did ever carol forth so
joyously, it mattered not what the day soever might be. This bird Joyous had his home in the top of an exceeding
high tree, hard by the pleasant arbor, and here did he use to sit at such times as the little people came into that arbor, and then would
he sing to them such songs as befitted that quiet spot, and them that came thereto. But there was a full evil cat
that dwelt near by, and this cruel beast found no pleasure in the music that Joyous did make continually; nay, that music filled this full evil cat with a wicked thirst
for the blood of that
singing innocent, and she had no peace for the malice that was

within her seeking to devise a means whereby she might comprehend the bird Joyous to her
murderous intent. Now you must know that it was the wont of our little Mistress Merciless and of Master Sweetheart to feed the
birds in that fair garden with such crumbs as they were suffered to bring with them into
the arbor,

and at such times would those birds fly down with grateful twitterings and eat of those crumbs upon the greensward round about the arbor. Wit ye well, it was a merry sight
to see those twittering birds making feast upon the good things which those children
brought, and our little Mistress
Merciless and little Master Sweetheart had sweet
satisfaction therein. But, on a day, whilst thus those twittering birds

made great feasting,
lo! on a sudden did that full evil cat whereof I have spoken
steal softly
from a thicket, and with one hideous bound make her way into the very midst of those birds and seize upon
that bird Joyous, that was wont to sing so merrily from the tree hard by the arbor.
Oh, there was a mighty din and a fearful fluttering, and the rest flew swiftly away, but Joyous could not do so, because the full evil cat held him in her cruel fangs and claws. And I make no doubt that Joyous would speedily have met his
death, but that with a wrathful cry did our little Mistress Merciless hasten to his rescue. And our little
Mistress belabored that full evil cat