A HUNDRED ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS, Plate 50
by Lorena Cassady
Title
A HUNDRED ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS, Plate 50
Artist
Lorena Cassady
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Mixed Media - Vintage Illustration
Description
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Anecdote III.
Studying
A magpie, belonging to a barber at Rome, could imitate to a nicety almost every word it heard. Some trumpets happened one day to be sounded before the shop, and for a day or two afterwards the magpie was quite mute, and seemed pensive and melancholy. All who knew it were greatly surprised at its silence; and it was supposed that the sound of the trumpets had so stunned it, as to deprive it at once of both voice and hearing. It soon appeared, however, that this was far from being the case; for the bird had been all the time occupied in profound meditation, studying how to imitate the sound of the trumpets; and when at last master of it, the magpie, to the astonishment of all its friends, suddenly broke its long silence, by a perfect imitation of the flourish of trumpets it had heard; observing with the greatest exactness all the repetitions, stops, and changes. The acquisition of this lesson had, however, exhausted the whole of the magpie’s stock of intellect; for it made it forget everything it had learned before.
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A surprised man and woman peer out a window at a bird perched nearby, while decorative horns protrude from the sides. The scene suggests an unexpected or whimsical moment.
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