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162 J 22 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
sion of unutterable joy by the sculpturing hand
of death. On the arm being moved, the
imprisoned bird was liberated, and fluttered a
little, but soon fell to the ground, immediately
joined by his grieving mate, who had been
perched in the sycamore, and now with
plaintive cooing expressed his sympathy and
distress for his loving and suffering partner. Now
Zeo could no longer restrain himself as an
inactive spectator of the strange, still scene,
which he dimly discerned from afar. He came
up, and the horror of that moment cannot be
told. He saw at a glance how cruel was his
fate, and understood that the male bird was the
one that got out of the cage in the arena of the
Coliseum, and hastened home with the tidings
of woe—his death—to his mother. While
delayed by the storm, the faithful female
carrier-pigeon had regained her liberty, and found her
way home as well. This unexpected message
of joy, the liberation of her death-doomed lover,
had been too great a shock for Hiatha, so
wholly unexpected as it was : it had killed her.
Her expression of joy had lingered on her
features to tell the tale.
" The sun had now set, and it was night
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