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Sing became theomfdmmaaalleorylt.Trahyeeswyhyhehooppppaeedhdidiunananginngda ar rn ni inng, as soon as he saw Chookynely yi in ngg somewhere, our little monsterrdrderaaierinr.nf.IfooInnsrrtthsuhwucwichihccaasseesuts,ta,IanIhadnddgdtgivtoveodetdrthheroopCemohhnoooToTihhebebiirrddscscaammeaeallwwaayysosontntiimmeaeaevtmoe dreaded most because, withoutteo .weveerryytthhiinnggttooggooounehhebreakofday.Thoh.wutthtkelhetreesaroundthehouse.Trideeise,nnsl,httrruheuliikeisstteeiswoulmloddthoesuweshwotkitat.ftrashiittahfhftthaaetitiywnanaennrtteaiicciisrppaattoiiuoonnonodaftftsthheewewnniiinnsbtteearsrstollsfooetil with both hands and pull with.ls strength. If we didn’t interveneouonnusddswllyyenwa,,Cn,asCh,sschseocaooevovealkkenllyley.nt.HtyeddCHeytewtoChwoehoeiaooasigokosgghgehtettyyttoriir,nngyea,mgoarmoonrsornfsofretoorahhletetlhahattheywereasroundastennisballsiT Th he er re ew we er re ea al ls so ob bl lu ue ej ja ay ys s, ,w wi it th hs sk ky ytn nt tithyedii imme, there was the hilarioushiirrtteeelhb bl lu ue ec cr re es st ts sa an nd dp pl lu um ma ag ge e, ,a an nd du un na av vildiinms sp pe ec ct taacle of the good old huge dognholptthd.jurse 4rheoeflbywelcetmieeorrststeeeenihhaannnonoaammttoohhnuueedrrrbrbeeodwdwwiisrr.Oddiisdsdtththtnsiiddhh,b,beeoiirgrgmeeedccaaaarruuiiassssdayeAs time passed he didn’t show hisewheusy nearly so often.smHeakS.whllewmhiaihumoineoitntnnumwatetttsecyyaamastalastacoalaaansaasssbntsaggewaSoaadbiatteerSaiggatodoowarmofllasasmsamamofflsl’st’ssos,safusethhac,aoyolayecldattoasedaadiossd,llfff’infaso’ndalome,wss,wi,adelieeittttitalehthedllhaldbeecochaonn .jsurraanddffeeaatunuravahggtbuhhivereutilheesldtheio oi id da ab bl ly yr re ed d- -c cr re es st te ed d, ,b bl la ac ck k- -c cr ro op pp pe ed d.u un nn ni inng away sluggishly from ourHdrthd.hsa.HihiiticHt.c ca ar rd di in na al ls s. .T Th he el la at tt te er rh ha ad dm mo or re eaadrieackSasisseinnagp.roblemgtsAheywaloc co ol lo ou ur rs sa an nd dl li ik ke ed dt to og ga az ze ea at tt th he ei ir rCoChhooookkwwalnwindosit did happen that one would hit a pane and die from excessive love of its looks.mereheld himself to be the man of theeflectioninwiws.Onsomedays“I even saw one making love to its reflflection!” Mrs Kahin told me.house so that he had to be the centre of attention. In the absence of his lifelong masters, he turned to Sing’s mother and me begging for attention. My main duty was to feed him twice a day and take him out for walks so that he got some exercise. As to my wife, she took care of his grooming, which meant a thorough brushing about once a week.Most Americans don’t need a doctorate because their economic system is open to professions of all kinds. A mechanic may earn as much as a university professor, a truck driver more than a librarian and quite a few state offificials less than plumbers. Manual labour or intellectual labour doesn’t matter; what matters is competence or lack thereof.While the Kahins had yet to leave Ithaca, a young female cardinal killed herself by smashing into a windowpane. It befell me to dispose of the dead bird. Treading through snow, I entered the naked grove, and sadness overtook me. I placed the body on a branch and arranged it so one might think it was asleep. The icy wind from world’s end might keep the little body in state for two or three months.But this kind of care wasn’t enough for him. He wanted to be hugged and tossed and played with as when his true masters were there. Each time we played with Sing or held him in our arms as we paced back and forth in the house, Chook clearly showed his displeasure, at fifirst by whimpering or else by rushing out to fetch the rubber ring he took in his mouth and presented to us to use to play with him. When we paid noFor this reason, few American students go for PhDs and those that go for master’s degrees can be counted. At Cornell’s Faculty of Political Science to which I belonged, PhD candidates numbered hardly more than ten each year and master’s students less than thirty or forty, and almost all of these were foreigners, because Americans don’t believe that a Master of Arts diploma is a big feather in your cap.As I walked away, I couldn’t help but wonder why so many young women leave this world for similar reasons.It was almost always the does that came to eat the corn. As for theElite+ 61