IMITATION

I recently read of one of Australia's sweetest birds of song being located near a sawmill,where it picked up the sound of the filing of saws and intermingled its splendid music with the most distressing discords.On the contrary,an English naturalist declares that he has known sparrows to imitate the nightingale's song.The Orientals say,"Grapes become purple by looking at one another," and in close fellowship pious people ripen one another.