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I was buying a canary in a bird-shop when he first spoke to me and suggested that I should take a less highly coloured bird. ‘The colour is in the feeding,’ said he. ‘Unless you know how to feed ’em, it goes. Canaries are one of our hobbies.’ |
This is from “In the Interests of the Brethren” collected in Debits and Credits in 1926, and subsequent collections. These are the opening words of the story which centres around the activity of a Masonic Lodge during World War I. (I’m afraid thoughts of a certain Monty Python sketch came immediately to my mind…) |
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