Excerpt from The Tame Goldfinch, or the Unfortunate Neglect: Embellished With Three Copper-Plate Engravings For some time, Louisa was pens feetly happy with her goldfinch, and took every Opportunity of amusing her young visitors with its pretty tricks 5 but as newobjects presented themselves to her notice, the bird Was gradually neglected; till at length she contented herself with merely giving him food and water three or four times a Week. The innocent sangster chirped as usual whenever he saw her, and repeated the most harmonious notes which he had learnt from. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.