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8 April 1898 — 3 Savile Row | |
Friday. 8th [April 1898]. Good Friday. Jackie seemed wonderfully well this morning—eat hemp from my hand & even hopped from perch to perch & I left him in hopes he was all right– Happening to go to my bedroom where his cage hung, a little later I found the bird fluttering at the bottom of the cage. I caught him up—put him in a small cage & ran with him up to Half Moon St to show him to Arthur’s nurses. They said they thought his leg was broken & they wd bind it up. I went off to service at the Chapel Royal. Heard Dean Bradley preach. He is old & shakey. After lunch I went to Half Moon St to see Arthur & found that Jackie was dead. He had become paralysed. He was an old bird & the shock was too much for him. I was very sorry. He was a dear little bird—I had had him a very long time—8 years I think—& Henry had been fond of him. In Henry’s last illness he generally asked me to bring him in the summer evengs to his room that he might hear him pipe his little tune & his scales. It is another link with the past gone & I could almost have cried. Miss Oswell came to work with me but it was such a fine warm day that I had not the heart to let her remain in all the afternoon so I gave her ticket for the Zoo Gardens & sent her there. I went to see Maria to find out if she had not the wicker chair– There it was but she cd not be persuaded to try it—so I told her I had come to have tea with her out on her balcony that she might try it & she consented. After tea I walked with her husband & daughter Nela home & set to work with Miss Oswell. We worked till 11 P.M. only stopping to dine. | |
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