Text Excerpt from:
She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!
by Kathryn Lasky and Illustrated by David Catrow

Harriet Hemenway was a very proper Boston lady--she

never talked with her mouth full. But one day she

almost did. Standing by the bay window in her par-

lor, she had just bitten into a jam cookie when her eyes

sprang open in dismay. She gasped, leaned forward, swal-

lowed, then turned to her parlor maid.

"She's wearing a dead bird on her head!"

Feathers on ladies' hats were becoming more and more

popular. At first, hats had been decorated with just feathers,

and then designers began to add pairs of wings. But this

woman had an entire bird perched atop her hat! Harriet

squinted her eyes as the lady of fashion walked proudly by.

"Arctic tern, I believe," Harriet whispered.

"Looks ready to fly away," said the parlor maid.

"It won't," Harriet replied sadly.

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