PUFFIN CLASSICS: MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS

It was Larry who discovered that Quasimodo was a musical pigeon. Not only did he like music but he actually seemed to recognize two different varieties the waltz and the military march. For ordinary music he would waddle as close to the gramophone as possible and sit there with pouting chest eyes half-closed purring softly to himself. But if the tune was a waltz he would move round and round the machine bowing twisting and cooing tremulously. For a march on the other hand – Sousa for preference – he drew himself up to his full height inflated his chest and stamped up and down the room while his coo became so rich and throaty that he seemed in danger of strangling himself. He never attempted to perform these actions for any other kind of music except for marches and waltzes. Occasionally however if he had not heard any music for some time he would (in his enthusiasm at hearing the gramophone) do a march for a waltz or vice versa but he invariably stopped and corrected h