He should have been caught and confined, and the feathers, all loose at once, should have been pulled out at one big pull and saved intact for fans and dust brushes, and adornment of mirrors and fire-places.

Soon every one was gone, and the mortified creature now hid away in the corn, and behind shrubbery, disappearing entirely from view, save as hunger necessitated a brief emerging.
This tailless absentee was not what I had bought as the champion prize winner.

And Belle, after laying four eggs, refused to set.

But I put them under a turkey, and, to console myself and re-enforce my position as an owner of peacocks, I began to study peacock lore and literature.

I read once more of the throne of the greatest of all the moguls at Delhi, India.
"The under part of the canopy is embroidered with pearls and diamonds, with a fringe of pearls round about.