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0351 I felt she is in a critical condition. - 124
0352 In a hurry, I took some tissue papers, and wrapped her body in. - 125
0353 I exchange tissue papers twice. - 126
0354 She sleeps for about 20 minutes in my left hand.
0355 Several months later, she learned how to shake her body, and how to take off the water. But it was not enough.
0356 After bathing, she usually comes to my bed. And she takes a nap for a while in my towel or my clothes that I prepared. - 129
0357 It became habit that after bathing, she sleeps in my left hand or in the inside of my left arm, looking at my face.
0358 She often says 'ChiChi' to me in a very small voice and happily in my hand or in the inside of my arm. - 131
0359 I have felt the happiness I have never been felt before. - 132
0360 Chie is a wild bird. I had never thought that I can talk with the wild bird. - 133
0361 I had never thought that I can understand the feelings of the wild bird. - 134
0362 When I was a little child, I heard the story of an old man who can talk with wild birds. - 135
0363 I thought him to be very envious. But recently, I understood that the old man was me. - 136
0364 We believe each other. We can understand the feelings of each other. Chie is a wonderful, intelligent and very pretty sparrow. - 137
0365 One day, when we were taking a nap as usual, I spoke to her, "Let's be always together even if one of us leaves this world earlier than the other." - 138
0366 'ChiChi'. She answered me in a small voice. I prayed to God with her to be always able to be together. - 139
0367 On the armchair only for her - 01
0368 She usually takes a nap in one of four hollows of her armchair. - 02
0369 Chie approaches the place where Ann is eating lunch. - 03
0370 Though Chie's body is small, she has stronger spirit than Ann. Ann has run away. - 04
0371 Chie on her cage for sleeping. In the evening, I put her in the cage, and I carry it to the north room, and make her sleep. - 05
0372 Chie on my music stand. She has occupied this music stand, too. - 06
0373 I covered with a lot of cloth the places which Chie and Ann usually stay. Because they do excrement without fail there. - 07
0374 The right foot lost two slender fingers because of sickness. - 08
0375 But, she isn't discouraged. - 09
0376 She minds nothing, and she is always behaving actively. - 10
0377 When I look at her right foot, tears sometimes overflow. - 11
0378 When I began to look after her, I made up my mind to do one thing . - 12
0379 It is to cut her nails. Of course, birds in the natural world do not need to cut the nails. - 13
0380 But, when we keep a bird in the room, we must cut the nails of the bird, because the nails grow. - 14
0381 If we do not cut the nails, they become round and the bird becomes impossible to walk. - 15
0382 Some years ago, I couldn't cut the nails of the sparrow which the name called Chun. As the result, his nails became round and it became impossible for him to walk easily. - 16
0383 As you know, the leg of a sparrow is more slender than a matchstick. The finger of the leg is more slender than it. A nail is at the top of the finger. I felt it very dangerous to cut it. - 17
0384 "If I have cut off his finger by mistake", when I thought it, I couldn't cut his nails. From this experience, I made up my mind to cut Chie's nails. - 18
0385 In order to cut her nails, my presence of mind and my health condition are most important. Failure is not allowed. - 19
0386 Fighting with myself comes every two months. - 20
0387 I do her nail clippers, before she goes to sleep in the evening. First, I prepare the nail clippers for a man, and the glasses for an old man, and the ointment (Mentholatum) for an emergency.
0388 Next, I take down the blinds of the windows, attach small electric bulbs in the room and tell her the time of her sleeping. - 22
0389 She greets me with Ann loudly, as the other sparrows do, before sleeping. She usually is on the music stand for zither on the table and is waiting me. So I can catch her with my right hand softly. - 23
0390 First, I make the room bright, fix her leg by my fingers of the right hand, open her fingers, fix the finger, and cut the part of which her nail got longer. I have to finish this work within 1 minute. Because her legs are numbed by the work of nail clippers.- 24
0391 My eyes are presbyopias. My hands begin to tremble with tension, blood pressure also becomes high, my heart beats violently, and it is "fight with myself". - 25
0392 It seems that she knows all. While I am cutting her nails, she keeps quiet, without moving the legs. I have an experience that cut her nail deeply and made her finger bleed. - 26
0393 Her body is very small and bleeding becomes fatal for her. I applied ointment to the wound and could save her from death somehow. - 27
0394 After nail clippers, I put her into the cage as usual, I carry it to the north Japanese-style room, and put her to sleep. - 28
0395 Ann likes songs better than a meal. His proud song is "The Whistler and The Dog". He sings the first half of this song together with my whistle. He has arranged this song well. He demands to sing to me. I am made to sing this song with him every day. - 1
0396 Additionally he is good at the twitter of a bush warbler ("Uguisu" in Japanese). He calls me "Mah-chan". It is my nickname in my childhood. If I don't answer him, he asks me in various ways."Ma-chan, Oide!" or "Ma-chan, Tabeta?". - 2
0397 "Oide!" is "Come here!" And "Tabeta?" is "Have you eaten yet?". Before he will do a bad thing, he usually asks me if he may do it or not. "Ma-chan, Dame?" "Dame?" is "Must not I do this?". If I don't say this word "Dame!", he begins to do a bad thing. - 3
0398 Chie and Ann can speak a Japanese word, "Ha-i." "Ha-i" is "Yes". It is the word I often use. Chie and Ann often use it in conversation with me. - 01
0399 However, Chie uses this word in various scenes. And she uses it including various feeling. It is one of the common languages of my family. - 02
0400 She uses a lot of words to communicate with me. I can understand all of them. Similarly, she understands the words which I speak to her. We can convey feelings to each other. I thank God. - 03
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