But see--what do you think of this--isn't it a beauty ?" So saying, the Doctor took out of his pocket a bird-skin he had provided for the occasion, and the children could not restrain their glee at the sight.
"Oh! oh!" exclaimed Dodo, clapping her hands as she always did when excited; "it's all gold and ruby and jet.

Where did you get it, Uncle Roy ?" "A friend of mine sent it to me from Oregon," answered the Doctor; "he thought I would like to have it for my collection, because it came from the very region where this kind of Tanager was discovered almost a hundred years ago." "I thought you said it was a Louisiana Tanager," said Rap and Nat, almost in the same breath.
"So it is, boys; but it does not live in the State of Louisiana you are thinking about, down by the mouth of the Mississippi River.

I shall have to explain how it got its name by giving you a little lesson in the history and geography of our country.

A great many years ago there was a King of France called Louis the Fourteenth, and during his reign all the western parts of America that the French had discovered or acquired any claim to were named Louisiana in his honor by one of the missionaries who came over to convert the Indians to Christianity.

After a good many years more, about the beginning of this century, President Jefferson bought all this immense country from Napoleon Bonaparte, and that made it a part of the United States--every part of them that is now ours from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, except some that we afterward took from Mexico.