IV. Discuss the following.
1. Why was it Lord Strawberry and not somebody else who found the
phoenix? Did he keep the birds for money?
2. How did Lord Strawberry win the phoenix's confidence? Give
possible explanations.
3. Why were ornithologists interested in the phoenix? Were journalists
interested in the bird for the same reasons? What about poets? Why did
it make a great stir among them?
4. Why did the phoenix show no disappointment when the visits to see
him became fewer? Was he vain (тщеславный)?
5. Why was a public fund opened? Could the London Zoo afford the
bird?
