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-Title: Live Toys
-       Or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets
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@@ -3191,7 +3156,7 @@ Frank and Andrea;
     Price 5_s._ cloth; 5_s._ 6_d._ gilt edges.
 
     "The descriptions of Sardinian life and scenery are admirable."
-    --_Athenæum._
+    --_Athenæum._
 
 The Nine Lives of a Cat;
 
@@ -3401,7 +3366,7 @@ Will Weatherhelm;
     Or, the Yarn of an Old Sailor about his Early Life and Adventures.
 
     "We tried the story on an audience of boys, who one and all
-    declared it to be capital."--_Athenæeum._
+    declared it to be capital."--_Athenæeum._
 
 Fred Markham in Russia;
 
@@ -3446,7 +3411,7 @@ Peter the Whaler;
     vigorous."--_Weekly News._
 
     "A book which the old may, but which the young must, read when
-    they have once begun it."--_Athenæum._
+    they have once begun it."--_Athenæum._
 
 Blue Jackets;
 
@@ -3472,7 +3437,7 @@ Our Eastern Empire;
 
     "These stories are charming, and convey a general view of the
     progress of our Empire in the East. The tales are told with
-    admirable clearness."--_Athenæum._
+    admirable clearness."--_Athenæum._
 
 The Martyr Land;
 
@@ -3635,7 +3600,7 @@ Tales of Magic and Meaning.
     "Cleverly written, abounding in frolic and pathos, and inculcates
     so pure a moral, that we must pronounce him a very fortunate
     little fellow, who catches these 'Tales of Magic,' as a windfall
-    from 'The Christmas Tree'."--_Athenæum._
+    from 'The Christmas Tree'."--_Athenæum._
 
 Faggots for the Fire Side;
 
@@ -3673,7 +3638,7 @@ The Talking Bird;
     cloth; 3_s._ 6_d._ coloured, gilt edges.
 
     "The story is ingeniously told, and the moral clearly
-    shown."--_Athenæum._
+    shown."--_Athenæum._
 
 Julia Maitland;
 
@@ -3725,7 +3690,7 @@ The Remarkable History of the House that Jack Built.
     A GENIUS. Price 2_s._ in fancy cover.
 
     "Magnificent in suggestion, and most comical in
-    expression!"--ATHENÆUM.
+    expression!"--ATHENÆUM.
 
 A Peep at the Pixies;
 
@@ -3843,7 +3808,7 @@ Anecdotes of the Habits and Instincts of Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes.
     "Amusing, instructive, and ably written."--_Literary Gazette._
 
     "Mrs. Lee's authorities--to name only one, Professor Owen--are,
-    for the most part first-rate."--_Athenæum._
+    for the most part first-rate."--_Athenæum._
 
 Twelve Stories of the Sayings and Doings of Animals.
 
@@ -3950,7 +3915,7 @@ A Word to the Wise;
     little volume."--_Gentleman's Magazine._
 
     "May be advantageously consulted by even the
-    well-educated."--_Athenæum._
+    well-educated."--_Athenæum._
 
 
 ELEGANT GIFT FOR A LADY.
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     pictures of every-day occurrence. The style is colloquial and
     pleasant, and therefore well suited to those for whose perusal it
-    is intended."--_Athenæum._
+    is intended."--_Athenæum._
 
 
 MISS JEWSBURY.
@@ -4054,7 +4019,7 @@ Every-Day Things;
     and Mineral Substances in common use. Written for Young Persons.
     Second Edition, revised. 18mo., 1_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
 
-    "A little encyc'opædia of useful knowledge, deserving a place in
+    "A little encyc'opædia of useful knowledge, deserving a place in
     every juvenile library."--_Evangelical Magazine._
 
 PRICE SIXPENCE EACH, PLAIN; ONE SHILLING, COLOURED.
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     Small 4to., 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth; 3_s._ 6_d._ coloured, gilt edges.
 
     "The moral is in the good, broad, unmistakeable style of the best
-    fairy period."--_Athenæum._
+    fairy period."--_Athenæum._
 
     "The story is written with excellent taste and sly
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     Indian Mail._
 
     "Even well-known topics are treated with a graceful air of
-    novelty."--_Athenæum._
+    novelty."--_Athenæum._
 
 Tales from the Court of Oberon.
 
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     [Asterism] Answers to the above, 1_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
 
 
-THE ABBÉ GAULTIER'S GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS.
+THE ABBÉ GAULTIER'S GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS.
 
  I. Familiar Geography.
 
@@ -4442,7 +4407,7 @@ THE ABBÉ GAULTIER'S GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS.
 
 II. An Atlas.
 
-    Adapted to the Abbé Gaultier's Geographical Games, consisting of 8
+    Adapted to the Abbé Gaultier's Geographical Games, consisting of 8
     Maps coloured, and 7 in Outline, etc. Folio, 15_s._ half-bound.
 
 Butler's Outline Maps, and Key;
@@ -4481,7 +4446,7 @@ Le Babillard.
     An Amusing Introduction to the French Language. By a French Lady.
     Sixth Edition. 2_s._ cloth.
 
-Der Schwätzer;
+Der Schwätzer;
 
     Or, the Prattler. An amusing Introduction to the German Language,
     on the Plan of "Le Babillard." 16 Illustrations. 16mo., price
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-Title: Live Toys
-       Or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets
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-  [Illustration: BLUEBEARD, THE SHETLAND PONY.
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-LIVE TOYS;
-
-Or
-
-Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets.
-
-by
-
-EMMA DAVENPORT,
-
-Authoress Of
-
-"Jamie's Questions," "Weak And Wilful," etc.
-
-With Illustrations by Harrison Weir.
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-London:
-Griffith and Farran,
-(Successors to Newbery and Harris,)
-Corner of St. Paul's Churchyard.
-M DCCC LXII.
-
-London:
-Printed by Wertheimer and Co.,
-Circus Place, Finsbury.
-
-
-
-
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-TO
-
-LADY NEPEAN,
-
-THIS
-
-LITTLE VOLUME IS DEDICATED,
-
-AS
-
-CONTAINING TRUE ANECDOTES OF THE VARIOUS ANIMALS THAT WERE IN THE
-POSSESSION OF A LITTLE BOY AND GIRL, IN WHOM SHE HAS ALWAYS SHEWN
-A KIND INTEREST.
-
-
-
-
-Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected
-without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have
-been retained as printed. The cover of this ebook was created by
-the transcriber and is hereby placed in the public domain.
-
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-
-
-CONTENTS.
-
-
-                                                  PAGE
-
-MOPPY, THE WHITE RABBIT                              1
-
-THE TWO BIRDS, GOLDIE AND BROWNIE                    4
-
-POLL PARROT                                         10
-
-NEDDY AND THE RIFLE DONKEY                          19
-
-BUNNY, THE WILD RABBIT                              31
-
-THE JACKDAW                                         38
-
-PRICKER, THE HEDGEHOG                               50
-
-DRAKE, THE RETRIEVER                                55
-
-TAWNEY, THE TERRIER                                 60
-
-PUFFER, THE PIGEON                                  70
-
-DR. BATTIUS, THE BAT                                75
-
-THE CHOUGH                                          80
-
-THE KITTENS, BLACKY AND SNOWDROP                    83
-
-BLUEBEARD, THE SHETLAND PONY                        85
-
-JOE, THE GERMAN DOG                                 96
-
-
-
-
-LIVE TOYS;
-
-OR
-
-ANECDOTES OF OUR FOUR-LEGGED AND OTHER PETS.
-
-
-
-
-MOPPY, THE WHITE RABBIT.
-
-
-The first Pet that we ever remember possessing was a large white
-rabbit. We were then very little children; and, being at the sea-side,
-we spent the greater part of the day on the shore, or rather on the
-broad esplanade, that stretched for full half-a-mile round the pretty
-bay. When we were quite tired of running there, or of picking up stones
-and weeds on the shingle below the esplanade wall, we were enabled to
-prolong our stay out of doors by means of the pretty little
-goat-carriages that were kept in readiness on the esplanade. Some of
-them were made with two seats; some were drawn by one goat, and some
-with two. There were reins and regular harness to these little goats,
-and we were indeed pleased, when our nurse allowed us to drive in one
-of the double-seated carriages. We took turns to sit in front and
-drive, and we tried hard to persuade our Mamma to let us have a goat,
-and a goat-carriage for ourselves. What a nice Pet that would have
-been! But Mamma said she could not take it about, as we travelled much,
-and also that a goat would butt at us and knock us down. Therefore we
-were obliged to be content with patting and coaxing the goats on the
-walk.
-
-During one of our drives in the goat-carriage, we met with a boy
-carrying a beautiful white creature with pink eyes; "Look! look!
-nurse," we cried, "what is that?" "It is a rabbit," she said, "would
-you like to stroke it?" and she took it out of the boy's hands, and
-held it close to us; we kissed it and stroked it, and buried our faces
-in its long white hair, felt its curious long ears, and wondered at the
-strange colour of its eyes. The boy said that a sailor gave it to him;
-but that his mother wished him to sell it, as it was troublesome in her
-small cottage, and they had no yard to keep it in, and he asked nurse
-if she would buy it from him. We earnestly begged that we might have
-it; "Do buy it, Mary," we cried; "please buy it." And, after some
-talking, Mary gave sixpence to the boy for the rabbit, and, my sister
-giving up her front seat and her reins to me, went home with the pretty
-creature in her lap.
-
-We called the rabbit Moppy; it was a source of great amusement to us.
-Mary contrived a bed for it in a large packing-box in an empty garret
-at the top of the house, and when we wished to play with it, it was
-brought down to the nursery. We always fed it from our hands. It became
-extremely tame, and would follow us about the room, and allow us to
-lift it and carry it in all sorts of strange ways; for we could not
-manage lifting it by the ears in the proper way. When it began to be
-tired of us, it used to get under the sofa, and when we dragged it out
-again it appeared angry and would kick with its hind legs, and make
-quite a loud knocking on the floor, with what we called its hind
-elbows. When this commenced, nurse usually carried it off to its box,
-fearing that it might bite, or else she covered it up in her lap, when
-it would remain asleep for some time.
-
-Now and then we took it with us when we drove in the little carriage,
-and it lay so snugly on our knees and kept us so warm. Before we had
-become at all weary of our plaything, or indifferent to its welfare, we
-removed to Ireland; and going first to visit grand-mamma, it was
-thought impossible to take Moppy, so after much consultation, nurse
-spoke to one of the little boys who kept the goats, and seemed to be a
-gentle good-natured lad, and with many instructions and requests that
-he would be most kind and careful to the poor little animal, we kissed
-and stroked our pet, and, burying our faces in its long white hair for
-the last time, we made him a present of beautiful soft Moppy.
-
-
-
-
-THE TWO BIRDS, GOLDIE AND BROWNIE.
-
-
-"Would you like to buy a bird, Sir?" said a poor woman to me one day
-when we were just setting out for our walk. She held in her hand a
-small cage with a beautiful goldfinch.
-
-"I have one shilling and sixpence," I said, "will you give it to me for
-that?"
-
-"I hoped to be able to sell it for half-a-crown," the woman said, "for
-I am very poor; I am leaving this place and want money for my journey,
-or I should not part with my bird."
-
-"But I have a shilling," said my sister, "and that added to your money
-will make half-a-crown, and so we can buy it between us and it will
-belong to us both."
-
-We gave our money to the poor woman, and she put the cage into my hand.
-The little bird was quite a beauty, his colours so bright, his plumage
-so glossy and thick, and his chirp so merry. After displaying him to
-Mamma, and to every body we met, we carried him to the nursery, and
-placed him on the broad window-seat; Mamma said she was afraid we
-should soon get tired of him, and neglect to feed him and to clean his
-cage. This, we thought, was quite unlikely. However, we promised very
-faithfully; and we commenced with feeding and petting him so much that
-he soon became extremely tame, would take seeds and crumbs from our
-fingers, chirp to us when we came near his cage, and sing without the
-least sign of fear.
-
-One day we had carried him into the drawing-room; and, on opening the
-door of the cage to put in some sugar, he darted out. "Oh dear! oh
-dear! Goldie is out," we exclaimed; "what shall we do? We shall lose
-him." But Mamma quickly got up, and shut both the windows and begged us
-to be quiet, and not to frighten him by rushing after him and
-attempting to seize him. "If you leave him alone," said Mamma, "he will
-perhaps allow you quietly to take him in your hand when he has flown
-about as much as he wishes; but he will lose all his tameness if you
-terrify him." So we sat down to watch the little fellow, he darted
-about the room for some time, and presently alighted on the table,
-where the breakfast things remained. First he pecked at the bread, then
-tried the sugar, peeped into the cups, and seemed highly amused at the
-different articles which he was now examining for the first time. Then
-he flew on the top of the picture frames that hung on the wall, then on
-the curtain rods, and at last perched on Mamma's head, peeped at her
-hair, and looked as proud and happy as possible. And after he had
-looked at every thing in the room and well stretched his wings, he
-quietly returned to his cage, chirping at us, as if to say, "I have
-seen enough for one day, I'll come out again to-morrow." So afterwards
-we used to give him a fly every morning, taking care to shut all the
-windows before his door was opened. We paid so much attention to our
-bird; that he did not seem to find his life at all dull, but he
-obtained a companion in an unexpected manner.
-
-Our nursery window was standing open, Goldie was in his cage on the
-table, and we were playing on the floor; suddenly my sister exclaimed,
-pointing to the window, "Goldie is out! Goldie is out!" and there
-indeed, perched on the window-sill, was a little bird, which for a
-moment we believed to be our own little pet. We gently approached the
-window. "Oh that is a brown bird," said I, "and look! Goldie is safe in
-his cage." Nurse now advised us to draw back from the window, for that
-if not frightened, the little stranger might possibly be attracted by
-the bird in the cage, and might come inside the window; so we retreated
-to the opposite side of the room, and watched the little fellow. In he
-hopped very cautiously, now and then making a little chirrup, and
-twisting his head in all directions, as if to discover with his sharp
-black eyes, whether there was anything or anybody likely to hurt him;
-now he came on a chair-back, and then becoming bolder, ventured on the
-table. When Goldie saw him, he left his seed box at which he had been
-very busy, and hopping about his cage in a most excited mannere began
-to chirrup as loudly as he could, and shaking his tails up and down, he
-seemed to express his great joy at the sight of the little brown
-visitor. Nurse quietly passed round the room and shut the window, "Now
-we have him safe," we cried, dancing about. "Pray be still, my dears,"
-said nurse, "until we get him into the cage." So we again became
-immoveable, and there was the brown stranger peeping at Goldie through
-the bars, perhaps wishing to partake of the seed and sugar, and fresh
-groundsel that Goldie had been enjoying. He was a delicately shaped
-thin little bird, all his feathers of a pretty dark brown, he did not
-appear to be much frightened when nurse approached, nor did he leave
-the table when she opened the door of the cage; but on the contrary, he
-peeped in, and receiving a very civil chirp of invitation from Goldie,
-he actually hopped in to our extreme delight.
-
-We ran to display our treasure to Mamma. She was quite amused at our
-having caught him in so strange a manner, and said that she thought he
-was a linnet, or some such kind of bird. He was evidently a tame bird
-that had been much petted. He soon accommodated himself to all Goldie's
-habits, came regularly to breakfast, and took his fly afterwards, all
-about the room, resting occasionally on our heads or shoulders. Brownie
-would now hop on our fingers, when we wished to take him up from the
-floor; and this we had never been able to teach to Goldie.
-
-The two birds were very good friends, excepting when an unusually nice
-bit of groundsel or plantain excited a quarrel between them; then they
-scolded, fluttered, and pecked at each other in a very savage manner.
-We had a sliding partition made to the cage, and when they began to
-dispute, we punished them by sliding in this partition and separating
-them for a short time. They used to look quite unhappy, moping in their
-solitude, until we made them happy again, by withdrawing the partition.
-
-These little birds went many journeys with us, even crossed to England,
-and back again to Ireland, and lived with us for a long time; and I
-suppose we became rather careless about open windows and doors, knowing
-that the birds were so very tame, and had no wish to fly away.
-
-We were the following summer in another place. There our rooms were
-confined and small; so we used to allow the birds to fly about on the
-staircase every morning, in order to give them a larger range for using
-their wings.
-
-One bright summer morning, Goldie flew out on the landing; and as he
-had invariably come back again to his cage, we were not noticing him
-much, and never perceived that the servant had gone down stairs,
-leaving open the door at the bottom of the flight, just outside of
-which door, was an open window. Presently we went to see for him, and
-it was some moments before we spied him sitting on the ledge of this
-open window. If we had made no exclamation, and placed the cage on the
-stairs, most probably he would have returned; but perhaps we startled
-him by running down the stairs towards him. Out he went so rapidly and
-yet so gently, in the bright fresh air, as if he would say, "Liberty
-and sunshine, and freedom of flight in the summer sky, is too
-delightful to refuse, even for you, my dear little master and
-mistress." He perched on a high tree and looked at us for a while. In
-vain we strewed crumbs about the window, and called and whistled. In
-vain we set his cage on the ledge with his deserted companion in it,
-hoping that hearing Brownie's chirp would entice him to return. He
-never came back again, and Brownie occupied the cage for many months;
-our care of him being greater than ever, since we lost our other
-favourite.
-
-But Brownie's end was much more tragic. We were going away on a visit
-for some weeks; and it was decided that Brownie was not to go, but that
-he should live in the kitchen until we returned. There was a huge cat
-living in the barracks. We always had been in dread of her, and had
-tried to make her afraid of entering our door; but whilst we were away,
-she one day found all the doors open, and peeping into the kitchen, and
-seeing no protecting servant there, she seized our dear little pet, and
-soon destroyed him. When we returned home, there was nothing but the
-empty cage.
-
-
-
-
-POLL PARROT.
-
-
-We were staying for some months at a seaport town in France, many
-vessels used to come in from different parts of the world; and I
-suppose the sailors brought with them all sorts of animals and birds,
-for the houses looking on the quay where the vessels were moored were
-almost entirely shops of birds, monkeys, etc., etc. It was most amusing
-to walk along the quay, and look at all the live creatures that were
-there exposed for sale. Such a chattering of monkeys of all shapes and
-sizes, such a twittering and singing from every imaginable species of
-small birds, such a screaming and chattering from the parrots and
-macaws, and such fun in peeping into the cages of white mice and
-ferrets. We often wished very much to buy a monkey; but Mamma did not
-fancy it, and said they were uncertain ill-tempered beasts, and that we
-should be constantly bitten if we had one. First, we longed for this
-bird, then for that squirrel, then for a cage of white mice, and so on;
-indeed I believe we quite tormented Mamma with requests to walk along
-the quay of animals, as we called it. At last we set our affections
-upon a grey parrot, the smoothest and handsomest among the large number
-exposed for sale. We never heard her say anything, it is true; but we
-thought that an advantage, as she would not have learnt to swear and
-talk like the sailors, and we should teach her to say just what we
-pleased.
-
-The price of the parrot was rather high, because of her size and
-beauty, and we longed for her many weeks before we were her masters;
-but at last she was placed in our possession as a new year's gift, and,
-in addition, a nice cage with a swing, and tin dishes for her food, all
-the wood work being carefully bound with tin, to secure it from her
-formidable beak.
-
-Cage and parrot were carried with us on our return to England, and she
-soon became a great pet. She was not at first very tame; but by much
-petting, and by leaving the door of her cage constantly open, so that
-she did not feel herself a prisoner, she gradually became more
-friendly. The first sign of love to any of us was after my sister's
-short absence of a few days at a friend's house. When she returned, we
-were talking together in the hall, and Poll's cage being in an
-adjoining room, she heard her voice, and recognising it, she came down
-from her cage, and gave notice of her arrival at my sister's feet by
-her usual croak; she flapped her wings, and gave every sign of pleasure
-at seeing her again. She did not, however, extend her amiability to any
-one but myself, sister, and Mamma; she was still savage to strangers,
-and would bite fiercely if touched, but if we offered our wrists, she
-would step soberly on, allow us to scratch her head, stroke her back,
-push back her feathers to look at her curious little ears, and in
-return she would lay her beak against our cheeks, and make a clucking
-noise as if she meant to kiss us. She used to waddle all about the room
-with her turned-in toes, and climbed up tables and chairs just as she
-pleased. She would get upon Mamma's knee by scrambling up her dress,
-holding it tight in her beak. When we were writing or drawing, she
-enjoyed sitting on the table, though she meddled sadly with our things,
-biting our pencils in pieces, tearing paper, and so on, and once in
-particular, she terrified us for her own safety by opening every blade
-of a sharp penknife, and flourishing it about in her claws as if in
-triumph. We had some difficulty in getting it from her grasp without
-cutting ourselves or hurting her. She was a famous talker, called us
-all by name, whistled and barked when the dog came into the room;
-called "Puss, puss!" and mewed when the cat showed itself, sang several
-bits of songs, and asked for fruit and food of different sorts. We
-never could teach her to sing through a whole tune. I never heard a
-parrot get beyond a few bars; and I wonder what is the reason that they
-will learn the commencement of half-a-dozen different songs, but still
-cannot remember any whole. I do think a parrot's voice and utterance is
-one of the most extraordinary of things, for it always repeats a word
-in the peculiar voice of the person who taught it; and, instead of
-closing its beak or touching the roof of its mouth with its tongue, in
-order to articulate, it invariably opens its mouth wide when it speaks,
-and its tongue is never used at all; yet it will pronounce m's, b's,
-p's, and t's as plainly as any human being. We could always tell who
-had taught our Poll any word or song, from the similarity of voice that
-she adopted. Her sleeping-place was for some time on the top of a
-chair-back in my sister's bedroom. When we were leaving the
-sitting-room to go upstairs at night, Poll used to waddle down from the
-cage and come to my sister, who held her wrist down for her to mount,
-and having been conveyed upstairs and placed on the floor, she mounted
-of her own accord to her sleeping perch, gave all her feathers a good
-shake, and settled her head for the night.
-
-Very early in the morning, she used to commence her toilet. Such
-scratchings and smoothings of her feathers, such picking and cleaning
-of her feet and legs; and having arranged her dress for the day, she
-would come down, take a turn or two about the room, and then look at my
-sister to see if she were awake. If not stirring, Poll used to clamber
-up on the bed by means of the curtain or counterpane, get quietly on
-the pillow, and examine her eyes closely. If no wink was perceptible,
-Poll would gently and cautiously lift up an eyelid, pinching it softly
-in her beak, then go to the other eye and do the same; then she would
-wait a little bit, saying, "Hey? hey?" as if to ask whether her
-mistress was not yet properly roused. Then she would again work away at
-the eyelids, till my sister could no longer refrain from laughing. She
-used to feign being asleep every morning, in order to amuse herself
-with Poll's proceedings.
-
-I wished to try having my eyelids opened by Poll in the same manner,
-and one night took the bird into my own room; but she did not approve
-of this change of quarters, and instead of going quietly to sleep, made
-such a croaking and grinding of teeth on her chair-back, that I was
-glad to carry her back to my sister's room. Indeed, although she was
-very friendly with me, she did not manifest the same attachment as
-towards my sister and mother, apparently preferring ladies' society.
-
-While Poll was with us, we went another journey into France, and took
-the parrot with us in a basket. It was a stormy night when we crossed
-from Southampton, and Poll in her basket was placed at the foot of my
-sister's berth, and no further attention was paid her. The cabin was
-very full of people, and numbers had to lie on the floor, there not
-being sufficient berths or sofas. In the middle of the night, the
-inmates of the ladies' cabin were all startled by a scream from an old
-lady who was stretched on the floor.
-
-"Stewardess! Here! Here! Some dreadful thing is biting me. I have
-received a shocking bite on the leg. Do search for the creature,
-whatever it is."
-
-So the stewardess came and looked, and could find nothing.
-
-My sister, who had looked out of her shelf at the old lady's cry,
-immediately divined what it was, seeing that Poll's basket had rolled
-off the berth to the floor, and she having gnawed a hole in the basket,
-had put out her beak and bitten the first thing with which it came in
-contact.
-
-When the stewardess came to look for the monster, the basket had
-rolled, with the motion of the ship, to the other side of the cabin,
-and not finding a sea voyage pleasant, she put forth her beak again.
-
-"Oh! bless me! What can that be?" cried another passenger. "Something
-bit me. Do find it, stewardess."
-
-Then came another lurch, and away rolled Poll in her basket; and no one
-suspected a rather shabby old basket of containing anything but perhaps
-a pair of slippers, or a brush and comb, or some such articles. So poor
-Poll rolled about in her prison, inflicting bites on several legs and
-arms, my sister meanwhile in agonies of laughter on her shelf, and not
-daring to say who was the real offender, lest Poll should be turned out
-of the cabin.
-
-At last the stewardess said that she supposed it must be rats, and she
-ran away at the entreaties of the poor victims on the floor to fetch
-the steward to search for the rats. Whilst she was gone, my sister
-slipped down from her berth, and took possession of Poll's basket. She
-had scarcely retreated with it in safety, when the stewardess returned
-with the steward; and rather an angry altercation ensued, the man
-insisting that there was not a rat in the ship, and the injured
-passengers insisting that sharp bites could not be made by nothing at
-all. However, after a long dispute, he begged them all to move from the
-floor, and made a regular search.
-
-My sister was all the time in the greatest alarm, lest Poll should
-think proper to croak or sing "Nix my dolly," or otherwise to make
-known her presence. As luck would have it, however, Poll was either too
-sea-sick or too angry to say anything, and the steward announced that
-no live thing was in the cabin, and that the ladies had been dreaming.
-
-"But bites in a dream, don't bleed," retorted an angry old lady,
-holding up to view a pocket handkerchief which indeed wore a murderous
-appearance.
-
-This being unanswerable, the steward could only shrug his shoulders and
-retreat from the Babel of voices in the ladies' cabin; and soon after,
-my sister had the pleasure of landing, with Poll undiscovered and safe
-in her old basket, and we are ignorant whether the old lady ever found
-out what it was that had bitten her.
-
-During our journey, Poll often caused great amusement, by suddenly
-shouting or singing as we were jogging along in a diligence or slowly
-steaming on a river, thereby astonishing and alarming our fellow
-passengers; nor did she forget, when occasion offered, to make good use
-of her strong beak.
-
-At one place we were entering a town late at night, and the place being
-a frontier town, our luggage was all strictly examined by the
-custom-house officers before we were permitted to enter the gates. All
-having been passed and paid for, we remounted the diligence; my sister
-was the last. She had her foot on the step, when one of the men rudely
-pulled her back, asking why she had not shown her basket. She said
-there was nothing in it but a bird, but the man declared he must look;
-and seeing that my sister was unwilling to open it, he imagined there
-was something valuable and contraband in it, so roughly dragging it out
-of her hands, he tore open the lid, and thrust in his hand. Poll gave a
-loud croak, and the man rather quickly withdrew his hand, with a
-thousand vociferations at the bird and the basket and my sister. I must
-confess I was delighted to see that Poll had made her beak nearly meet
-in the surly fellow's finger.
-
-When my sister had regained her basket, and we had left the gate, we
-lavished much praise on Poll for her discriminating conduct on this
-occasion. She would not have bitten my hand had I put it into the
-basket; how did she know that the hand was a stranger's?
-
-When we arrived at our destination in the south of France, Poll enjoyed
-the novelty as much as any one. Now she revelled in the abundance of
-oranges and other fruits, eating just the best part, and flinging away
-the rest with lavish epicurism. And how she basked in the hot sun, and
-climbed about the cypress and olive trees in the garden, biting the
-bark and leaves, and almost I think believing that she was again in her
-wild birth-place, wherever that may have been! She accompanied us in
-safety on our homeward journey, went to Ireland with us; and whenever
-we travelled, Poll went too.
-
-At one time she took an erroneous notion into her head, that she could
-fly; now this was an impossibility, for her wings were very short and
-small, and her body very large and heavy. Whether this had chanced from
-her unnatural life in a house, or from early cutting of her wings, I do
-not know, but she could not support herself in the air, even from the
-table to the ground. However, she thought she could, and on one
-occasion she tried to fly, when perched on the top bannister of a large
-well staircase of four flights. Down she came like a lump of lead on
-the floor below, and when we ran to pick her up, poor Poll was gasping,
-lying on her back, with her eyes rolling about in a fearful manner. We
-thought she would die, but we put some water in her mouth, blew in her
-face and did what we could to revive her, and gradually she recovered.
-
-But this lesson was lost upon her. A few days after, she tried to fly
-out of a window on the first floor, and came down in the same heavy
-way, on the flagged pavement before the door. This time her head was
-wounded, and bled, and she seemed stupid for some days after; but she
-recovered and lived long after that. Probably these falls had injured
-her brain, for at last she began to tumble off her perch, as if giddy,
-and then her head swelled very much, and she died in a sort of fit.
-
-I have seen other parrots who were better talkers than ours; but I
-never saw one so tame, and so fond of her own master and mistress, she
-used to come to meet us like a dog, when we came into the house, after
-being absent for walks or rides, knew our times for rising and going to
-bed, called us separately by our names, and really showed much
-intelligence.
-
-Birds, in general, are, I think rather stupid, and do not understand
-anything, but what their own instinct tells them; but parrots seem to
-know the meaning of the words they learn: and if others do not, I am
-sure that our Poll did.
-
-
-
-
-NEDDY, AND THE RIFLE DONKEY.
-
-
-Our next pet was a very different creature. One of our aunts had sent
-us some money as a present; and I and my sister had many consultations
-as to what we should do with it. At last we hit upon an idea that
-charmed us both, and we ran to our Mamma. "Oh Mamma, we cried, do you
-think our money will buy a donkey? We saw the other day, a little boy
-and girl both riding upon a donkey, it trotted along so nicely with
-them, and the little boy at the other side of the square has a donkey,
-and we should like it so very much." Then Mamma said that a donkey
-would be of no use unless we could also buy a saddle and bridle; and
-besides that, she must enquire where he could graze, or whether there
-was any spare stall in which he could live. These things had not
-occurred to us; but we went to Papa, and begged him to find out where
-our donkey could live in case we had one.
-
-Now there was a large sort of waste field adjoining the Barrack Square;
-a few sheep and some old worn-out horses were kept in it, but I believe
-it was not used for anything else. We sometimes ran and played there,
-and there was a pond in it, into which we were very fond of flinging
-large cobble stones. Papa found that he could easily obtain leave for
-our donkey to graze there, and it was of such extent, that it could
-find there quite sufficient food; so that difficulty was done away
-with.
-
-Then we made enquiry about the price of donkeys. We talked one day to
-the nurse of the little boy and girl who rode together. She did not
-know what their donkey cost, but told us that she knew a little boy who
-bought a young donkey, when it was scarcely able to stand, and so
-small, that he had it in his nursery, where it lay on the rug before
-the fire, and was quite a playfellow to him.
-
-We thought we should like a tiny donkey to play with in the house; but
-Mamma persuaded us that it would be much pleasanter to have one that we
-could ride. Papa heard of a donkey we could buy for one pound, it came
-to be looked at, and we liked its appearance much; it was in very good
-condition, its coat thick and smooth, and not rubbed in any place. Our
-other pound supplied us with a sort of soft padded saddle and bridle;
-the pommels took off, so that either of us could use the saddle, and
-happy indeed was the morning, when Neddy was brought to the door for
-us.
-
-I had the first ride, and, owing to a peculiarity in Neddy's manners, I
-soon had my first tumble. We proceeded across the square very nicely,
-and were about to cross a large gutter, along which a good deal of
-water was rushing. I had no idea that Neddy would not quietly step over
-it; but he had an aversion to water, and coming close to the gutter, he
-made a great spring and leapt over it; the sudden jerk tossed me off
-his back, and Papa catching me by the collar of my dress, just
-prevented me from going headlong into the water. And we found that
-Neddy always jumped over a puddle, or any appearance of water;
-sometimes a damp swampy place in the road, was enough to set him
-springing. But when we knew that this was his custom, we were prepared
-for it, and had no more falls; we rode in turns, and sometimes I got on
-behind my sister, and many nice long rides we had all about the fields
-and lanes. When we returned home, we took off the saddle and bridle at
-the door, and gave Neddy a pat; away he scampered through the open
-gateway into the field, flinging up his heels with pleasure. We could
-see all over the field and the square from our windows, and soon found
-it extremely amusing to watch the proceedings of our Neddy and another
-donkey.
-
-This donkey belonged to a little boy, who also lived in the square; he
-did not often ride upon it, but it followed him about more in the
-manner of a large dog. It had learned how to open the latches of the
-doors, and could go up and down stairs quite well.
-
-Our Mamma went one day to see the little boy's Mamma, and when she
-opened the door of their house she was much surprised to find the
-donkey's face close to her's, and she was obliged to give him a good
-push to get past him. When we heard this, we used to watch for the
-donkey going in and out, and soon we saw him go into the field and make
-friends with Neddy. They held their heads near together and seemed to
-be whispering; then they would trot about a little while, then whisper
-again. We supposed that the strange donkey was telling Neddy what fun
-he had in going into the different houses and getting bits to eat from
-the inhabitants, and instructing him how to bray under such and such
-windows when cooking was going on. For Neddy soon began to follow his
-friend about, and to imitate everything that he did. We did not know
-the name of the other donkey, so we called him the Rifle donkey,
-because his little master's Papa belonged to a rifle regiment. Neddy
-was an apt pupil, for soon after the conversations between the two
-donkeys had begun, we were seated one evening at tea, when we heard an
-extraordinary clattering upon the staircase, we listened and wondered,
-as it became louder. The staircase came up to the end of a long
-passage, which led to our doors, and when the clattering reached the
-passage I exclaimed, "I do believe it is the donkey coming up stairs."
-
-We rushed to the door, and looked out. Yes, indeed, the Rifle donkey
-and Neddy were quietly pacing along the passage. We were thoroughly
-charmed at Neddy's cleverness in mounting two long flights of stairs,
-and when we had given them each a piece of bread, and patted and coaxed
-them, they turned away to go down again, the Rifle donkey leading the
-way. He managed very well indeed, but Neddy made rather awkward work
-with his hind legs; however, he managed to reach the bottom without
-throwing himself down. Next they went under the windows of the
-adjoining house, and the Rifle donkey began to bray loudly, Neddy
-copied him in his most sonorous tones, and presently a window was
-opened and a variety of little bits of food were thrown out, which they
-ran to pick up. They came every morning to this window, and the officer
-who lived there always answered their call, by throwing something out
-to them. When he shut his window, they quietly went away, and about the
-middle of the day, when luncheons and dinners were going on, they would
-go to other windows about the square, and bray for food. Neddy always
-walked behind the other, and did not bray till he began. Sometimes
-there were clothes laid out to dry by the washer-women on a piece of
-grass, behind the houses. This supplied great amusement to the donkeys,
-for as soon as the women went away they would run to the grass, take up
-the clothes in their mouths, fling them up in the air, tread upon them,
-tear them, and even used to eat some of the smallest things, such as
-frills and pocket-handkerchiefs. But this was really too mischievous,
-as the poor women suffered for their fun.
-
-No one would believe them, when they said that such a missing
-handkerchief had been eaten by donkeys, or that such a piece of lace or
-a collar had been bitten and torn by the same tiresome creatures. I
-well remember some of our shirts coming home half eaten, and our Mamma
-then advised the washer-women to have a boy, with a good thick stick,
-to watch the drying ground, and to desire him to belabour them well if
-they attempted to touch any of the clothes. This advice was followed,
-so that piece of fun was in future denied to the donkeys. But, I and my
-sister highly disapproved of this system; we thought that we would much
-rather have our shirts eaten, or indeed all our clothes torn than allow
-Neddy to be beaten with a stick, to say nothing of the great amusement
-it gave us, to see the two queer animals rushing about among the wet
-things, entangling their feet in them, and sometimes trotting off into
-the square with a night-cap or a stocking sticking on their noses.
-However, we still took great interest in their proceedings even without
-the poor washerwomen's clothes; for being deprived of that game, they
-began to plague the soldiers at the guard room. It had a sort of
-colonnade in front, supported by pillars, and the Rifle donkey found
-that it was very diverting to rush head first at the men who were
-standing under the colonnade. If they tried to strike him, he used to
-dodge round a pillar, and then rush at them again from the other side.
-Often he singled out one man for his attacks, and then Neddy assisted
-his friend, by biting at the same man from behind, but he was not
-nearly so active in evading punishment as the Rifle donkey, and
-received many a buffet and kick during these encounters. Sometimes the
-soldiers punished them by getting on their backs. This, however, was
-not to be borne, and cling as tightly as they could, the donkeys never
-failed to fling them off, when they would return to the charge with
-renewed vigour.
-
-These games of bo-peep, and so forth, apparently amused the men quite
-as much as ourselves, and many a half-hour have we sat in our
-stair-case window-seat, watching the antics of the donkeys and the
-soldiers. Their play usually ended by the Rifle donkey receiving a
-harder rap on the nose than he deemed pleasant, then he would fling up
-his heels, and with a most unearthly yell, gallop off to the field,
-closely followed by the sympathising Neddy, who imitated in his best
-fashion both the yell and the fling of his heels.
-
-  [Illustration: NEDDY, AND THE RIFLE DONKEY.
-  _Page 25._]
-
-We were going to leave the barracks, and move to another part of
-Ireland; and just before we went, the two donkeys got into a terrible
-scrape. Indeed, it was very well that we did go away; for they were
-becoming so extremely mischievous and so cunning, that they would soon
-have become too tiresome; and although we were charmed with every trick
-they played, almost all the grown-up people thought them a great
-torment; and the Rifle-donkey had become a great deal more active and
-monkey-like, since Neddy had followed and copied him. I suppose he felt
-proud of being able to lead the other wherever he chose.
-
-It was extremely hot weather, and all doors and windows were generally
-left standing open. Not that it would have made much difference to the
-Rifle-donkey had they been shut; for there was not a door in the place
-that he could not open. But very likely they were tempted to this work
-of destruction by the sight of the open door. Whilst the officers were
-dining, the two donkeys walked into the ante-room. The table there was
-covered with newspapers, magazines, and books; and perhaps the donkeys
-thought that these papers were some of their old friends the clothes,
-from the drying-green; so they pulled them off the table; tore the
-newspapers into little bits; munched the backs of some bound books;
-scattered the magazines about the room; upset an ink-bottle that stood
-on the table; dabbled their noses in the pond of ink, and having done
-their best to destroy and spoil everything there, our Neddy, I suppose,
-was so delighted at the mischief they had done, that he could not
-refrain from setting up a loud and prolonged bray of pleasure and
-exultation.
-
-This brought in some of the officers, and there they found the
-Rifle-donkey trampling a heap of torn papers and books, with the
-remains of a blotted "Punch" in his mouth, and Neddy was looking on and
-expressing his admiration.
-
-So they were ignominiously turned out with kicks and blows; and some of
-the officers were very angry, and said that both of the donkeys ought
-to be shot immediately; and the others said that, at any rate, they
-should be shut up, and not allowed to run at large about the barracks.
-But, luckily for Neddy, we went away in a day or two, and we never
-heard how they managed to keep the Rifle-donkey in order. Perhaps he
-was not so mischievous when he had lost his companion, having then no
-one to admire his proceedings. We only heard that when his regiment
-left, some months later, the donkey marched out with them just in front
-of the band.
-
-As soon as we arrived at our new abode, our first thought was to find a
-field for Neddy. The fort in which we were to live was quite small;
-there was a street on one side, and the river close up to the wall on
-the other; the square, or rather the small space within the wall, was
-gravelled: no where could we see a blade of grass for our poor donkey,
-and there appeared to be nothing but brown bog anywhere round. Poor
-Neddy was put in a stall at the inn for the night; he must have been
-much surprised at the hay, and the luxurious bed of straw; for a bare
-field had hitherto been his only resting-place, and green grass the
-very best thing he had had to eat.
-
-But the stall could not be continued; and as soon as our Papa had
-leisure, he looked about for a suitable place for Neddy.
-
-There was another small fort about half-a-mile down the river: it
-consisted of a moat, and a low wall with a few guns. There was one
-little cottage inside for the gunner in charge; and the whole space
-inside the wall, consisting of a flat terrace, with sloping banks, and
-a good space in the middle, was covered with beautiful thick green
-grass. This was just the place for Neddy; he would not be able to get
-out, and there was nothing inside that he could hurt; for, of course,
-the gunner would soon teach him that he was not to poke his nose inside
-his neat little cottage; and there was plenty of space for him to run
-about, and fresh moist grass to eat, which I should think he would like
-better than dry hay in a hot stall. So Papa asked, and obtained leave,
-to keep our donkey there; and we rode upon him from the inn, and put
-him in possession of the little fort. He pricked up his ears, and
-seemed not quite to like the clatter of his hoofs, as he crossed the
-planks which formed a rude bridge over the moat. We thought nothing of
-this at the time, but we had to think a great deal of it the next day,
-when we came to take our ride--in happy ignorance that this would be
-the very last ride we should ever take on Neddy's back. We kept our
-saddle and bridle in our kitchen, and had to carry it with us to the
-fort; so I put it on my head and the bridle round my waist, and my
-sister drove me, and pretended I was a donkey. So we came very merrily
-to the fort, and having saddled and bridled Master Neddy, I was
-mounted, and we proceeded towards the plank bridge. But just at the
-edge, Neddy stopped short, laid back his ears, tried to turn round,
-and, in fact, refused to cross. In vain we patted and coaxed, tried to
-tempt him across with a biscuit, then tied a pocket handkerchief over
-his eyes, and attempted to cheat him into crossing without his seeing
-where he stepped.
-
-In no way could we induce him to put his foot upon the plank. The
-gunner came to our aid; and we all worried ourselves to no purpose.
-There was no other way out of the fort, and we were ready to cry with
-vexation. At last, Nurse suggested that it would be best to return
-home, and ask Papa what we could do; and being at our wit's end, we
-took her advice and scampered back to the other fort. Papa, having
-heard our story, sent four of the men with us, telling them they were
-to bring Neddy out in the best way they could; but, that, come out, he
-_must_. When we returned, there stood Neddy, just where we had left
-him, staring stupidly at the bridge. At first, they wanted to whip him,
-only leaving open to him the way to the bridge; but we declared he
-should not be beaten; and the gunner agreed with us, that blows would
-only make him still more obstinate.
-
-"Well, then," they said, "as he is to come out at all hazards, the only
-thing we can do is to carry him, one to each leg."
-
-So they began to hoist up poor Neddy, who did not in the least approve
-of this mode of conveyance. He tried to bite and kick, and twisted
-himself about in all directions. How we did laugh to be sure! For when
-two of them had got his fore legs over their shoulders, he made darts
-at their hair and their faces with his mouth, so that they had to hold
-his nose with one hand and his leg with the other. Then getting up his
-hind-legs was worse still; for he jerked and kicked so, as almost to
-throw down the men; and we quite expected to see the whole four and the
-donkey roll into the moat together. At last, he was raised entirely on
-their shoulders, and they ran across the bridge and set him down on the
-other side.
-
-"Are we to have this piece of fun every morning, Sir?" asked one of the
-soldiers, as they stood panting and laughing.
-
-"I hope not," I said, "I dare say he will be glad to go in to the grass
-when we come back from our ride; and if he once crosses it, perhaps he
-will not be afraid tomorrow."
-
-So we took our ride; Neddy behaved quite as well as usual; his fright
-did not appear at all to have disturbed his placidity; and in about two
-hours we again stood before the terrible bridge. The gunner came out to
-see how we should manage. We took off the saddle and bridle, and
-invited Neddy to enter. There was the nice fresh grass, and banks to
-roll upon, and to run up and down, looking very tempting through the
-gate; and on the other side of the road, there was nothing but heaps of
-stones and a great brown bog, stretching away as far as we could see,
-with nothing at all to eat upon it. But for all that, Neddy looked at
-the bridge; smelt it; and, resolutely turning his back to it, stared
-dismally at the bog, as if he were thinking,
-
-"I don't see anything that I can eat there."
-
-However, it was evident that although the fear of starvation was before
-him, he could not make up his mind to cross the ditch; and, in fact,
-had absolutely determined not to do so.
-
-We were in despair; but feeling sure that it would not do to have him
-carried in and out every day; we disconsolately led him back to our
-home, and told our troubles to Papa, who ordered him back to the stall
-at the inn for the night.
-
-Next day, we tried in all directions to find a field where Neddy could
-graze; but no such place could be found. So we had a grand consultation
-as to what must be done for him; and Papa said that he could not keep
-him in a stall, feeding with hay, for, perhaps, half-a-year or more, as
-he expected to remain where we were for a long time. So we made up our
-minds to part with our donkey; and we did not regret it quite so much
-at this time of year, as winter would soon come on, when, probably, we
-should not be able to ride much.
-
-We sent Neddy to the nearest town, about ten miles off; and a little
-boy there became his master. And we kept his saddle and bridle, in
-hopes of supplying his place some day.
-
-
-
-
-BUNNY, THE WILD RABBIT.
-
-
-We were now living in England, in a country place--fields and woods and
-lanes all around. We took great pleasure in all the amusements of
-country life.
-
-Our Papa had some ferrets, which he used to take out for rat-hunting in
-the corn stacks with a terrier we had, named Tawney, and other dogs;
-and now and then he went to a rabbit warren at some little distance. A
-boy one day brought from this warren a hat full of young rabbits for
-the ferrets to eat. They were all supposed to be dead; but when Papa
-was looking at them, he saw that one of the poor little things was
-alive, so he brought it into the house and gave it to me and my sister,
-saying that if we thought we could feed it we might keep it.
-
-The poor little thing was so young, that it was a great chance whether
-we could bring it up; but we had a cook who was very fond of all
-animals, and she helped us to nurse it. She fed it with milk for a few
-days, and then it soon began to nibble at bran and vegetables, and in a
-week or two could eat quite as well as a full-grown rabbit.
-
-The gardener made us a nice little house for it, by nailing some bars
-across the open side of an old box, and it slept in this by the side of
-the kitchen fire; but we never fastened it up so that it could not get
-out, and in the day-time it was seldom in its box, but running about
-the kitchen, and it soon found its way along the passage into the
-sitting-room, and then upstairs to the nursery, and into all the
-bed-rooms. It went up and down stairs quite easily, and seemed
-perfectly happy running about the house.
-
-It was a very strange thing that our terrier Tawney, of whom I have
-much to tell afterwards, never thought of touching Bunny, for when out
-of doors he was most eager after any sort of animal, would run for
-miles after a rabbit or a hare, went perfectly crazy at the sight of a
-cat, and was famous for rat-hunting and all such things; but as soon as
-he entered the house, even if the saucy little Bunny bounded about just
-before his nose, he would quietly pass by, apparently without an idea
-that it was a thing to be hunted. In the evenings, when Tawney would
-lie asleep on the rug, Bunny used to run over him, sometimes nestling
-itself against his back or legs; then would pat his face with its fore
-paws, and take all manner of liberties with him, he never so much as
-growled or snapped at it, and seemed really to like the companionship
-of the poor little creature.
-
-One very favourite hiding-place of Bunny's was behind the books on the
-dining-room shelves. These were quite low down to the floor, and if he
-could find a gap where a book was taken out, he squeezed himself in,
-and as the shelves were very wide, there was plenty of room for him to
-run about behind the books. I suppose he liked the darkness, and
-thought it was something like one of his native burrows, and if he
-could not remember them, it was his natural propensity to live in
-narrow dark passages, and therefore he preferred such places to the
-open daylight. It was very funny to see his little brown face peeping
-out between the books. Sometimes it happened that a book was replaced
-whilst Bunny was snugly hidden behind, and then we missed him when we
-went to put him to bed in his box for the night. First we went to look
-for him in all the rooms, and about the passages, and if he was not in
-the bookcase he would always come when we called, so when we saw
-nothing of the little animal, we went and took a book out of each
-shelf, and we were sure to see his bright eyes glistening in the dark,
-and then out came little Bunny with a bound. He did not seem to care
-for running into the garden or yard, which was odd; but as he grew
-older his taste for burrowing showed itself strongly.
-
-As he used to follow the cook about everywhere, he had of course been
-often down to the cellar and larder. These were paved with small round
-stones, and there was an inner cellar, or rather a sort of receptacle
-for lumber of all sorts, which was not paved at all; it had a floor of
-earth. Old hampers and boxes were put away there, sometimes potatoes
-and carrots, etc., were spread on the floor there, and altogether the
-place had a very damp, earthy sort of smell, perhaps very like the
-inside of a rabbit burrow, and one day the cook came to ask Mamma to
-come and look at the litter Bunny had made in the cellar. We all ran
-down, and saw that Bunny had scratched up a quantity of earth from
-between the little stones with which the cellar was paved; in fact the
-cellar floor looked almost like a flower-bed, all earth. The door into
-the inner cellar happened to be shut, or most probably he would have
-commenced his operations where there were no stones to hinder him.
-
-Mamma said that the gardener should press down the earth again between
-the stones, and tighten any that were loose, and that Bunny must not be
-allowed at any time to go down into the cellar. But it was very
-difficult to prevent his doing so. In summer, the meat and the milk
-were kept down there, as being the coolest place, and the beer barrels
-were there, and the coals, in different compartments; and to fetch all
-these different things somebody or other was perpetually opening the
-door at the top of the stairs. So Bunny frequently found opportunities
-for slipping in at the open door, and he came every day less and less
-into the sitting-rooms. One evening he had the cunning to hide himself
-behind some of the empty hampers in the inner cellar, and when we
-called him, and looked about for him in the evening, no Bunny appeared.
-In vain we took books out of all the shelves, hunted behind the
-curtains, under the sofas, and in all his usual hiding-places, we were
-obliged to give it up, and go to bed without finding him.
-
-The next morning, we renewed our search, and seeing no sign of his work
-in the outer cellar, we determined to have a regular rummage in the
-inner one. After moving a great many bottles, baskets, boxes, and
-barrels, we found a great hole. The earth had evidently been just
-scratched out; for it was quite moist and fresh. The busy little fellow
-had made a long burrow during the night in the floor of the cellar.
-When he heard our voices, he came out of his newly-made retreat, and we
-took him up stairs and gave him some food; for he was quite ravenous
-after his hard work. Then we consulted with his friend the cook, how to
-manage about him in future. It would certainly never do to let him go
-on burrowing under the house; in time we should have all the walls
-undermined, and the house would come tumbling down upon us, burying us
-in the ruins. Terrible, indeed, was the catastrophe that we created in
-our imagination from the small foundation of Bunny's having scratched a
-hole in the cellar! And now that he had once tried and enjoyed the
-pleasures of burrowing, we could scarcely expect that he would
-relinquish it again.
-
-We went to talk about it to Mamma; and we proposed that Bunny should
-live in the garden.
-
-"But," said Mamma, "I shall have all my nice borders scratched into
-holes; and the roots of my beautiful rose-trees laid bare; and, in
-short, the whole flower-garden destroyed, to say nothing of the
-kitchen-garden, which would, of course, become a mere burrow."
-
-"Well, then, Mamma," we said; "we must make him a much larger house,
-and keep him in it altogether. We will not let him have his liberty at
-all; and then it will be impossible for him to do any mischief."
-
-But Mamma said, that although that plan would certainly prevent Bunny
-from burrowing; she thought that it would not be a very happy life for
-the poor little animal, who had been accustomed all his life to perfect
-liberty, and had never been confined to one place.
-
-We could think of no other plan; so begged Mamma to tell us what she
-thought we had better do.
-
-"Do you remember," said Mamma, "seeing a number of little brown
-rabbits, running about and darting in and out of their holes, in the
-wild part of the fir-woods, where we sometimes drive. There is a great
-deal of fern and grass about there, and nothing at all to prevent the
-rabbits from burrowing and enjoying their lives without any one to
-molest them. I advise you to take Bunny there, and to turn him loose in
-the fir-wood; he will very soon find some companion and make himself a
-home; and do you not think he will be far happier when leading that
-life of freedom, than if kept in a wooden house, or even if allowed to
-burrow in a cellar?"
-
-After some deliberation, we agreed to follow Mamma's advice; and the
-next day we drove to the fir-wood, taking Bunny with us in a basket.
-
-We drove slowly along the skirts of the wood, looking for a nice place
-to turn him out. At last, we came to an open space among the fir-trees;
-the ground was there thickly covered with long grass, ferns, and
-wild-flowers, and the banks beneath the firs were full of rabbit-holes;
-we saw many little heads popping in and out.
-
-"This is just the place," we cried. "What a beautiful sweet fresh place
-to live in; and we got down and went a little way into the grass; then
-we placed the basket on the ground and opened it. Bunny soon put up his
-head, snuffed the sunny sweet air, and glanced about him in all
-directions. No doubt he was filled with wonder at the change from our
-kitchen or dark cellars, to this lovely wood; with a bright blue sky,
-instead of a ceiling; waving green trees, instead of white walls; and
-on the ground, in place of a bare stone floor; inexhaustible delights
-in the way of food; and soft earth for burrowing. Having admired all
-this, he jumped out of the basket; first he nibbled a little bit of
-grass, then ran a little way among the ferns.
-
-"Do let us watch him till he runs into a rabbit hole," we said to
-Mamma.
-
-And Mamma said she would drive up and down the road that skirted the
-firs, for about half-an-hour, and we might watch Bunny.
-
-He wandered about for a long time among the grass and plants; and at
-last we lost sight of him in a thick mass of broom and ferns.
-
-Mamma thought it was useless to search for him; there was no doubt that
-he would thoroughly appreciate the advantages of the fir-wood. So we
-gathered a large bunch of wild flowers, jumped into the carriage, and
-left Bunny in his beautiful new home.
-
-
-
-
-THE JACKDAW.
-
-
-One morning, my sister was sitting with Mamma at the dining-room
-window, when they saw me coming down the garden walk, with my head bent
-down, and something perched on my back.
-
-"Look!" said Mamma, "What has your brother got on his back?"
-
-Up started my sister.
-
-"Oh!" cried she, "It is something alive; it is black: what can it be?"
-
-And she darted out to look at my prize.
-
-It was a fine glossy fully-fledged Jackdaw. The gardener, knowing my
-love for pets of all kinds, had rescued it from the hands of some boys,
-who had found a nest of jackdaws, and had presented it to me.
-
-Although it was quite young, it looked like a solemn old man; the crown
-of its head was becoming very grey; and it put its head on one side,
-and examined us in such a funny manner, listening with a wise look when
-we spoke, as if considering what we were saying.
-
-The gardener had cut one of his wings pretty close, and the remaining
-wing was not very large. We set him down in the garden, and watched him
-for some time, in order to be certain that he could not fly over the
-low wall that separated our garden from the road. And we soon saw that
-he could only flutter a few inches from the ground, and hop in a very
-awkward sidelong manner; there was no fear of his escaping.
-
-Luckily, there was a large wicker cage, that had once been used for a
-thrush, in the coach-house. We fetched this out, cleaned it, and placed
-Jacky in it on the ground near some shady bushes. We left the door
-open, that he might hop in and out, and always kept a saucer of food
-for him in the cage.
-
-He soon became very tame; would hop on our wrists and let us carry him
-about, and liked sitting on our shoulders, as we went about the garden.
-Near his cage was a large lilac-bush, and he found that he could hop
-nearly to the top by means of its branches; and he picked out for
-himself a nice perch there, in a sort of bower of lilac-leaves and
-flowers.
-
-Finding this much pleasanter than the cage, he soon deserted that
-entirely; and at night, and whenever he was not hopping about the
-garden, or playing with us, he was to be found always on the same twig
-in the lilac bush.
-
-We used to place his saucer of sopped bread, and his saucer of water at
-the foot of the bush.
-
-When we passed, he used to shout "Jacky!" and soon began to try other
-words; and tried to imitate all sorts of sounds and noises.
-
-In the heat of summer, when the bed-room windows were all opened at
-daylight, we used to hear him practising talking in his bush. He barked
-like the dogs; utterly failed in his attempt to sing like the canaries;
-mewed like pussy very well, indeed; and then kept up an indescribable
-kind of chattering, which we called saying his lessons; for we supposed
-that he intended it to imitate our repeating of lessons, which he heard
-every morning through the dining-room window.
-
-Sometimes we heard more noise than he could possibly make alone; and we
-softly got out of our beds, and peeped through the window to discover
-what it was about. There must have been six or seven other jackdaws,
-running round and about his bush, hopping up and down into it;
-apparently trying how they liked his house, and having all sorts of fun
-and conversation with our Jacky.
-
-Within a few fields of our garden walls, stood the old ruin of a hall
-or manor-house; it had once, doubtless, been large and handsome;
-nothing now remained of it but the outer wall, a few mullioned windows,
-and some remnants of stone-staircases. The walls being very thick and
-much broken, afforded excellent holes and corners for jackdaws'-nests;
-for owls and such things. Indeed, it was from one of these holes in the
-ruined hall, that Jacky had been taken. And the numerous feathered
-inhabitants of the "Old Hall," as it was called, having spied our pet,
-sitting in lonely state in his bower among the lilac leaves, doubtless
-thought he would be grateful for a little company, and the society of
-his equals; so kindly used to pay him a visit in the early morning,
-before children or gardener were likely to interfere.
-
-We were rather afraid that the wild jackdaws might entice away our
-Jacky, by describing to him their own free life, and the mode of
-existence in the crumbling walls of their home. But when Mamma made us
-observe how very awkwardly he hopped about with his cropped wing, and
-how utterly impossible it was for him to fly across two or three
-fields, and to the top of the ruin, we were satisfied that his stay in
-our garden was compulsory; and we agreed that the "Old Hall" jackdaws
-might visit him as much as they pleased. But they never once came at
-any other time than very early in the morning.
-
-I suppose Jacky thought that he had kept these visits a profound secret
-from us.
-
-As he grew older, he became extremely mischievous. When Mamma was busy
-in the garden, he used to come down from his tree and follow her about
-from one border to another, watching earnestly whatever she was doing;
-and whilst she tied up the plants, or gathered away the dead leaves and
-flowers, he used to put his head on one side, and seemed to be
-considering for what purpose this or that was done.
-
-Mamma was planting a quantity of sweet peas, in order to have a second
-and late crop, after the first had begun to fade. She planted them in
-circles, twelve peas in each, and a white marker was stuck in the
-centre of each patch. As it was fine warm weather, Mamma expected that
-these peas would very soon appear; but in a few days, when she went to
-look at them, she saw that all the white markers had been pulled up and
-thrown on one side.
-
-So she called to us, "Children! I am afraid you have meddled with my
-seed markers; for they have all been taken out, and I stuck them firmly
-in the ground; some one must have touched them."
-
-We assured Mamma that we were not the delinquents; indeed, we were too
-fond of all the beautiful flowers to injure them in any way.
-
-When we looked closer, we saw that there was an empty hole in each
-place where Mamma had planted a pea. They had every one been picked
-out.
-
-Whilst we were wondering who could have done this, the gardener passed,
-and Mamma showed him the empty holes, and the markers pulled up; and
-asked him who he thought likely to have done such a piece of mischief.
-
-"I shouldn't wonder if it war he," said the gardener, pointing to
-Jacky, who, as usual, was close to Mamma, listening attentively to all
-we said.
-
-"Jacky, Jacky!" shouted he, making some of his awkward jumps at the
-same time, and going close to the ring of little holes, he peeped down
-them, with his head on one side, as if to make sure that he had left
-nothing at the bottom.
-
-We could not help laughing at the queer old-fashioned manner of the
-creature; but, at the same time, it was very annoying for Mamma to lose
-all the pretty and sweet flowers through Jacky's greediness.
-
-She said she would plant some more immediately; and she sent my sister,
-with Jacky on her wrist, to the front of the house, with orders to stay
-there till the planting was finished, so that the mischievous bird
-might not watch the whole process, and would not know where the seeds
-were planted.
-
-I staid to help Mamma; we planted rings of sweet peas in different
-places from the old ones; and instead of white markers, which might
-attract Jacky's notice, we stuck in a great many bramble-sticks, all
-round every patch, so closely that a much smaller bird than Jacky would
-have found it difficult to squeeze himself in between the rough prickly
-twigs. Then we thought that all was safe, and we let Jacky come back to
-his perch.
-
-The next day he had not touched the brambles; but I suppose he had
-thought it necessary to do something in the way of gardening; so he had
-fetched up, from the farthest end of the kitchen garden, a roll of
-bass, or strips of old matting, that was used for tying plants and
-flowers to sticks. This he had pulled into little shreds, all about the
-lawn and the flower-beds, and a great deal of time and trouble he must
-have spent upon his work. How the gardener did scold! saying, that it
-would take the whole afternoon to clear away the litter, and that Jacky
-did more mischief than he was worth; and so on.
-
-But Jacky was a privileged person, and did pretty much as he liked; so
-it was of no use to complain about him.
-
-It was most amusing to see how he teased the gardener when mowing was
-going on; he would watch his opportunity, and when no one chanced to be
-looking, he would run away with a bit of carpet or piece of old
-flannel, that the gardener used to wipe his scythe; or else he would
-drag away the hone, or sharpening-stone, and hide it under his
-lilac-bush.
-
-So gardener, finding him a great nuisance on mowing days, told us that
-he should certainly mow off Jacky's head or legs some day; for he would
-come hopping about among the cut grass; and if taken up and landed in
-his tree, he would immediately come down again, and thrust himself just
-in the way.
-
-So for the future, we took care on mowing days to shut up Jacky in the
-nursery, or in the dining-room, where he used with a rueful countenance
-to watch all proceedings through the window, pecking now and then in a
-spiteful way at the glass.
-
-  [Illustration: THE SPARROW-HAWK AND CAT.
-  _Page 45._]
-
-Whilst Jacky was in our possession, we had a sparrow-hawk for a short
-time. Papa brought him home one evening in a paper bag; he was a very
-handsome fellow, with such brilliant eyes, and such a beak! He was
-perfectly wild, and bit furiously at any hand that approached him; so
-we covered up his head in a pocket-handkerchief, whilst gardener
-fastened a small chain round his leg. Then we fixed a short stump in
-the grass, not far from Jacky's lilac, and fastened the end of the
-chain to the stump. So he could run and hop about for a yard or two
-round the stump; we intended to keep him there until he became a little
-tamer, and hoped that the example of his neighbour would teach him good
-manners. But instead of taking Jacky as a pattern, the new comer
-bullied him in a most dreadful way. We might have saved ourselves the
-trouble of chaining him, for he snapped the chain in two with his
-strong beak, and came down from his stump quite at liberty to roam
-about. Strange to say, he did not go away altogether, but walked in at
-the dining-room window. We were seated at tea, and not knowing that the
-hawk had liberated himself, we were quite startled at hearing a curious
-flapping in the corner of the room, but we soon saw the two brilliant
-eyes, and there sat Mr. Sparrow-hawk, on the top of the book-case. We
-took him out and confined him to his stump again. There he staid
-quietly all night; but next day we heard Jacky pitying himself in his
-bush, and we found him fidgetting about in the top of the lilac, and
-fearing to come down, because Mr. Sparrow-hawk was walking about at the
-bottom, and whenever poor Jacky ventured down, he was darted at by the
-new comer, and hastily scrambled up the bush again. This was done out
-of pure love of teasing, for the hawk would not condescend to touch
-Jacky's food, consisting of sopped bread; but yet he would not let the
-poor old grey-head come down to eat his own breakfast. Jacky was quite
-crest-fallen, and we procured a stronger chain which held Mr.
-Sparrow-hawk fast on his stump for several days, during which time
-Jacky regained his equanimity.
-
-But then the chain was burst again, and this time the hawk took to
-chasing the cats as well as tormenting Jacky. We had two cats, they
-were very good friends with Jacky, and used wander about the garden a
-good deal; quite unconscious of what was in store for them; they
-commenced playing about Mr. Sparrow-hawk's stump, when down stepped the
-gentleman and nipped the tail of the nearest cat quite tightly in his
-sharp beak, poor pussy shrieked and mewed, and we had to go to her
-rescue. At last we left off chaining the hawk, as we found that he did
-not try to escape, but sat on his stump or else came into the house;
-and we often were startled by finding him perched on a table, or on the
-bannisters, but at the same time he would not become tame, and he so
-terrified and annoyed poor Jacky, that we soon sent him away; and
-certainly the cats and Jacky must have rejoiced, when they found the
-savage owner of the stump had disappeared. The only sign of
-civilization which Mr. Sparrow-hawk had shown, was one evening, when a
-gentleman who visited us, happened to be playing the flute in the
-drawing-room. The hawk never came into the room when any one was there,
-and had very often heard the piano and singing; but probably the
-peculiar sound of the flute had something very pleasing to the bird's
-ear, for although this room was full of people, he came to the open
-window, hopped in, and gradually approached the flute-player, till he
-perched himself on the end of the flute. When the music ceased, the
-hawk, quietly took himself out of the window again, and next day was as
-wild as ever.
-
-One of Jacky's great pleasures during the summer, was bathing or
-washing at the sink in the back kitchen. We always took care that he
-was provided with a large saucer of water, which stood beneath his
-lilac bush, but this did not appear to be sufficient. One day when the
-cook was pumping water out of the sink-pump, Jacky jumped up, and put
-his head under the stream, shouting and fluttering, with expressions of
-the greatest delight; and after this he generally came every day into
-the back kitchen, and called and hopped about until cook came and
-pumped over him. Such a miserable half drowned creature as he looked,
-with all his feathers sticking close to his body; then he used to
-repair to the kitchen and sit before the fire, till he became dry.
-Sometimes he got upon the fender, and when the fire was large, it made
-his feathers appear quite to smoke, by so rapidly drawing out the
-water. Once he was actually singeing, when the cook snatched him up and
-put him out of the window, and it was strange that he seemed to like
-the roasting at the fire, quite as well as the cold water.
-
-He soon discovered the time that tea was prepared in the kitchen, and
-regularly came to the window to ask for tea and bread and butter; so a
-saucer of tea and a piece of bread and butter were placed on the
-window-sill for him, as punctually as the cook's own tea was prepared;
-and Jacky sipped his tea, and ate his bread and butter like any old
-washerwoman. But whilst sitting at the kitchen window he spied all
-sorts of things on cook's little work-table that strongly tempted his
-thieving propensities, and coming cautiously one morning, when the cook
-was absent, he pretty well cleared the table; very many journeys in and
-out must it have cost him, for when the poor cook returned to her
-kitchen, she began exclaiming. "Who has been meddling with my work and
-all my things?" and she called to me and my sister, and asked if we had
-hidden her work materials to plague her. "No indeed," we said, "we have
-not been here this morning at all."
-
-"Well then," said she, "what has become of my thimble, my scissors, and
-reels of cotton, my work, that I laid upon the table, and there was
-also an account-book of your Mamma's, and a pen; I don't see one of
-them!" We hunted about for the missing articles. The kitchen window
-looked out on a plantation, not far from Jacky's bush. My sister looked
-out. "Oh!" cried she, "there is one leaf of your account-book on the
-border." "And I declare," exclaimed cook, who had run to the window,
-"there is one of my new reels twisted round and round yon rose tree; I
-do believe it's that mischeevous bird." We were delighted. We both
-sprang out of the window--"There's your thimble," I shouted, "full of
-wet mould!" "And here are your scissors," cried my sister, "in Jacky's
-drinking saucer! And there is your half-made shirt, hanging on the rose
-bush beneath the window!" Poor cook could not forbear laughing. "Well,"
-said she, "he must have been right-down busy to take off all these
-things in about five minutes. Gather up my things for me, like good
-bairns." So we ran about picking up the things; the cotton reels were
-restored with about half their supply of cotton, as he had twisted them
-all round about the stems of different plants; the pen was stuck into
-the earth, and as for the account-book, the leaves were all about the
-garden, some he had even carried down to the cucumber frame, quite at
-the other end. But he was such a favourite, that even this sort of
-trick was allowed to pass unpunished. He furnished us with much
-amusement; and I am now coming to his sad end.
-
-The wall which separated our garden from the road, was very rough and
-old, full of holes and crumbling mortar. Once or twice, when sitting at
-the windows, we had seen a small animal run across the gravel walk; we
-could not discern whether it was most like a rat or a weasel, and
-probably it came in through one of the holes in the wall. We did think
-of Jacky; but knowing that he always roosted at the top of the lilac
-bush, we supposed that he was quite out of the reach of rat or weasel.
-One morning quite early, our Papa whose window was open, heard a very
-strange sort of chattering from poor Jacky, so unlike his usual
-language, that he got up and looked out of his window. Seeing nothing,
-and hearing no more, he went to bed again; but when Mamma went as usual
-to give Jacky his breakfast, no call of pleasure came from the bush, no
-Jacky was there, and he was no where to be seen.
-
-"Then a weasel has taken him," said Papa, when we told him; "the
-singular cry he made this morning, was doubtless when the weasel seized
-him." And when we searched about the garden, there we found on a grass
-bank, at some distance, the remains of our poor pet. The weasel had
-bitten him behind the ear, and sucked the blood; his feathers were a
-good deal ruffled, but no other bite had been made. We blamed ourselves
-much, for not having safely fastened him in a cage every night in the
-house. But now we could do nothing but bury the body of poor Jacky.
-
-
-
-
-PRICKER, THE HEDGEHOG.
-
-
-Shortly after poor Jacky's death, Papa called us into the garden.
-
-"Children!" he said, "Here is something for you in my handkerchief.
-Guess what it is; but don't touch."
-
-The handkerchief looked as if something very heavy was in it; and we
-guessed all sorts of things, but in vain.
-
-At last Papa let us feel, and my sister grasped it rather roughly; but
-withdrew her hand quickly, with five or six sharp pricks.
-
-"Oh! it is a nasty hedgehog," cried she; "look how my fingers are
-bleeding!"
-
-"Not a _nasty_ hedgehog," I said, "but a curious nice creature; where
-did you get it, Papa?"
-
-"It was given to me this morning for you," he replied; "It will live in
-the garden; and you must sometimes give it a little milk, and it will
-do very well; and perhaps become quite tame."
-
-The little creature, when placed on the grass, did not curl itself up
-and appear affrighted, but looked about him, and ran quickly to and
-fro. We brought some milk out in a saucer, but he could not manage to
-get his nose over the side; so we made a little pond of the milk on the
-grass, and he dipped his black snout into it, and then sucked it up
-greedily.
-
-This hedgehog soon became very tame; when we took him up in our hands,
-he did not curl up in afright, but let us look at his feet, and touch
-and pat his curious little pig's face. He helped himself to what he
-liked best in the garden; and we never found that he rooted up
-anything, or did the slightest damage; he liked the milk which we gave
-him daily; and when we were playing on the grass, he used to run about
-us, as if he liked our company.
-
-We had been told that we should never be able to keep a hedgehog; that
-they always climbed over the walls, and escaped to the fields and
-hedges.
-
-But although we did not in any way confine Pricker, he never attempted
-to leave us, being apparently quite content with his run of the kitchen
-garden, flower garden and house; for we sometimes carried him into the
-kitchen, and up stairs into the nursery, where he would roll himself up
-into some snug corner, and remain apparently asleep for an hour or
-more.
-
-When we had had Pricker for some weeks, we received a present of a
-second hedgehog. He was larger, but never became so tame as our first
-friend; he did not like to be taken up in our hands, and we never could
-obtain a good look at his black face and legs, as he rolled up on the
-slightest touch; and when Pricker was running about on the grass, his
-shy companion used to remain hidden beneath the leaves and plants.
-
-We had, at this time, a very favourite dog; and at the first coming of
-the hedgehogs, we were in some fear that Tawney would kill them, for he
-was a most eager hunter of rats, weasels, rabbits, cats; in short, of
-anything that would run from him.
-
-But every one assured us that a dog would not kill a hedgehog, on
-account of his sharp prickles; and the first time that we showed
-Pricker to Tawney, he made a sort of dart at him, and received, of
-course, a violent prick on the nose; at this he retreated, barking and
-licking his lips, and dancing round poor Pricker, with every desire to
-attack again; but hoping to find a spot unprotected by the formidable
-spikes.
-
-Pricker, however, having tightly rolled himself up, such a spot was not
-to be found; and, after a great deal of noise and excitement, Tawney
-retired, and we never observed him to venture again.
-
-When Pricker was running on the grass, or when we were feeding him with
-milk, Tawney used to play about without condescending to take the
-slightest notice of the little animal; in short, he pretended not to
-see him. So that we felt quite easy about the safety of Pricker and his
-comrade.
-
-What it was that induced Tawney not only to _see_ Pricker, but to
-attack him again, we do not know, as nobody was witness of the
-catastrophe.
-
-On going into the garden one brilliant morning, Tawney made his
-appearance in a very excited state, bounding about our feet with a
-short delighted bark, that was not usually his morning salutation; and
-on looking more closely at him, we saw that his nose was bleeding;
-indeed, his whole head and ears were much ruffled and marked.
-
-We did not at first think of Pricker; but on wiping Tawney's face with
-a wet towel, we found that he was bleeding from many wounds.
-
-"The hedgehog!" we exclaimed, "He must have killed poor Pricker."
-
-So we commenced a grand hunt through the garden, looking under all the
-cabbage-plants, and in all the usual haunts.
-
-Behind the cucumber frame we found our hedgehog; but as he curled up
-the moment we looked at him, we knew that it was not Pricker; and on
-further search we discovered the mangled remains of the poor animal,
-whose natural armour had not been sufficient to protect him from so
-brave and plucky a little dog as our Tawney, who must really have
-suffered greatly from the deep thrusts into his face and head before he
-could have inflicted a mortal bite.
-
-Now, we thought, what shall we do with the other; as, doubtless,
-Tawney, would not allow him to live, having found himself the conqueror
-in the present instance.
-
-Papa said that a gentlemen, one of our neighbours, had been telling him
-that his kitchen was infested with black beetles; and that he had tried
-beetle-traps, and all sorts of methods of getting rid of them in vain.
-Papa had told him that the surest way was to keep a hedgehog in the
-kitchen, as they devour black-beetles greedily.
-
-"Now," said Papa, "as you cannot keep the little creature in safety
-here, you had better make a present of it to Mr. D----; and I advise
-you to carry it to him at once."
-
-Accordingly, we took the hedgehog to our neighbour, and it was duly
-installed in the kitchen.
-
-In a day or two, we went to enquire whether the beetles were
-decreasing.
-
-Alas! the poor hedgehog had fallen a victim to his own greediness; for,
-having eaten too many beetles, he was found dead amidst a heap of the
-slain.
-
-
-
-
-DRAKE, THE RETRIEVER.
-
-
-It happened at this time that we passed another winter in Ireland; and
-missing our garden, and other occupations, my father made us a present
-of a dog.
-
-Drake was a large handsome retriever of a dark brown colour, with very
-short curly hair. I believe that sort of dog is called the "Irish
-Retriever;" they are certainly very common in that country. I remember
-to have seen many of them; but our Drake, we thought, was handsomer
-than the generality; his coat was more curly and of a better colour,
-and he was taller--for they often have rather short legs in proportion
-to their body. He was a very rough bouncing creature, full of life and
-activity; many a tumble, and many a hard knock we received in our games
-with him; he used to bound at us, and putting both paws on our
-shoulders, roll us over like ninepins.
-
-It was winter when he came to us--a very hard winter, almost constant
-frost, and now and then heavy falls of snow--we were at that time in a
-small fort on the bank of the Shannon; and although that is a very
-broad, deep, and rapid river, it was once, during the winter, quite
-frozen over for more than a week; and, after that, when the strongest
-current remained unfrozen, there was still a great deal of ice on the
-sides, and all among the sedges and rushes that grew among the flat
-banks.
-
-Drake liked the cold very much, and liked rolling in the snow, and
-being pelted with snow-balls, which was our chief amusement out of
-doors during the winter.
-
-In the house we had fine games of hide and seek; we hid a glove or
-pocket-handkerchief under the sofa-cushion, or in the curtain, or in
-Mamma's pocket, and telling Drake to find it; he would rush frantically
-about the room, snuffing in every hole and corner, until he brought to
-light the hidden article. Then we had races, in and out the bed-rooms
-and sitting-rooms, up and down the stairs, and round the tables; but
-these races generally ended by something being thrown down, or, at
-least, by our clothes being torn in Drake's exultation at catching us.
-
-Whilst the hard frosts lasted, Papa had Drake out with him a great
-deal.
-
-Wild geese and wild ducks abounded on the river; but they were
-extremely difficult to shoot; they generally flew in great numbers, and
-seemed to keep a sentinel, or one to look out; for it was almost
-impossible to approach them near enough to have them within the reach
-of a shot.
-
-It was now that Drake's fetching and carrying propensities became most
-valuable.
-
-Papa had a flat punt constructed; it was a most curious-looking boat,
-so flat that it scarcely stood out of the water at all; inside was
-fixed a large duck-gun on a swivel, and then there was just room for
-Papa, and one man, to lie down at the bottom, with Drake; it was rowed
-by one paddle at the stern.
-
-  [Illustration: DRAKE, THE RETRIEVER.
-  _Page 57._]
-
-The geese and ducks used to come to feed on the river's banks very
-early indeed in the morning; and so watchful and shy were they, that
-even in the flat punt, Papa found that he could not come at all near
-them unperceived. Off they would all go again, making such a flapping
-with their great wings, and quacking as they went.
-
-So Papa, having noticed a flat swampy sort of place, some way down the
-river, set out late at night in the punt; and, reaching this
-feeding-ground, waited there till the flock came flying over them. They
-made themselves heard sometime before they arrived; and then Papa, the
-man, and Drake, all crouched down and remained immoveable until the
-birds were right overhead; and then, bang went the great duck-gun, and
-down tumbled, at least, half-a-dozen great fat geese.
-
-Now was Drake's time; and but for him no geese would have been brought
-home, although many might have been shot.
-
-Out of the punt sprang Drake, and soon carried back one or two that had
-fallen into the open water; then he would carefully get upon the thin
-ice, between the rushes and the coarse grass, and bring to light any
-wounded bird that had sought to find a shelter there. Then again into
-the water where great thick reeds prevented the boat from going; if the
-birds dived, he dived after them; and, in short, none escaped him; he
-swam after them, scrambled along the ice after them, rummaged in the
-weeds all stiff with frozen snow, and having seized one and hurried
-back to the boat with it, off he would start for another.
-
-But when the flock had once received a shot, they came no more to the
-same place that night; so no more was to be done, unless a chance bird
-or two on the way home. Sometimes they flew one or two together; we
-have seen them from the windows of the fort, fly quite close to the
-bridge in the daytime; but only great hunger could have driven them to
-this.
-
-When the party reached home, and the birds were spread out on the floor
-to be looked at, how pleased Drake was, and how proudly he snuffed from
-one to the other.
-
-The wild geese were very handsome birds, not so large as common geese,
-but very plump, and with a beautiful dark brown plumage. They were very
-good to eat, for they do not live on fish, as some suppose, but eat
-only the weeds and grass that they find in certain spots along the
-river's bank. But the ducks were handsomer still, very nearly as large
-as the geese; less tough when cooked, and having brilliant blue
-feathers in each wing. Then there was a smaller kind of duck, with
-green feathers instead of blue, in the wings; this green was like the
-humming bird's green, as bright as emerald.
-
-Besides these, there were teals, very pretty-looking things with
-silvery looking feathers on the breast, and a variety of small ducks,
-and curlews. All pretty, and all good to eat; we had to thank Drake for
-every one of them, as without his help very few would have been picked
-up; there was so much thin ice along the river, that would not have
-borne a greater weight than Drake, so when they fell upon this, they
-were quite out of man's reach, to say nothing of the difficulty of
-groping out a wounded bird from a wilderness of long grass and rushes,
-growing in pretty deep water. Drake highly enjoyed the night
-expeditions, and when the punt was getting ready, or the gun cleaning,
-he would jump about and bark, as if to say "I know what is in
-contemplation."
-
-When the winter was nearly passed, we went back to England, leaving
-Drake in the fort; being much played with and sometimes teazed by the
-soldiers, he became very rough, and rather inclined to snap and bite.
-Shortly afterwards he was sent to us in England, and on his arrival we
-brought him in, to have a game with us in the house. We had a large
-ball, and were making Drake fetch it, when we rolled it to the end of
-the room. This went on very well for some time, excepting that Drake
-did not give the ball up without a growl, which he had never done
-formerly; and at last, he laid down with it between his fore feet, and
-I desired him to bring it in vain, so I went to him and took it in my
-hand, when he flew at me with a growl, and bit my cheek. It was not a
-very severe bite, but Mamma said she would not keep the best dog in the
-world after he had bitten one of us, and that Drake must immediately be
-sent away. Then Papa wrote to a gentleman who knew what a clever dog at
-finding game Drake was, and he agreed to buy him. So he was sent off
-without our seeing him again.
-
-
-
-
-TAWNEY, THE TERRIER.
-
-
-We now come to the very chief of our favourites, our dear dog Tawney.
-Before he arrived, we only had a setter who lived in his kennel in the
-yard, and we never petted him much; and once when Papa went away for
-several months, he took the dog with him, so we were without any guard.
-
-At this time a great many robberies had taken place, and houses had
-been broken into in the neighbouring town. There appeared to be a gang
-of house-breakers going about. And when Mamma was writing to our
-Grandmamma, she said that she quite expected a visit from this gang,
-some night, as Papa was away, and no man in the house. Grandmamma
-replied that the best safeguard was a little terrier, sleeping inside
-the house, and that she would send her one; and in a few days we
-received a beautiful terrier, close haired and compact, with such
-brilliant dark eyes and of a yellowish colour, more the colour of a
-lion than anything else, so we named him "Tawney." A bed was arranged
-for him in a flat basket, which was placed every evening near the back
-door, and we soon found what sharp ears he had, and what a good
-watch-dog he would prove. If Mamma got up after every one had gone to
-bed, and opened her own door as softly as possible, Tawney heard the
-lock turn, and barked instantly. He always gave notice when anybody
-entered the front gate, or came into the yard, and we felt sure that no
-housebreaker could approach the house _unheard_ at least.
-
-Tawney became our constant companion. He took his meals with us, sat
-under the table during our lessons, walked out with us, joined in all
-our romps and games; and was really almost as companionable as another
-child could have been. At hide and seek, running races, leaping over a
-pole, and blind man's buff, he played as well as any boy, and when we
-drove in the pony carriage, he amused us excessively. He darted into
-every door or gate he found open, and in passing through the town he
-behaved so badly with respect to the cats, that we were obliged to take
-him into the carriage, until we had quite left the streets. If he saw a
-poor quiet cat sitting at a door he flew at her; and if the cat took
-refuge in the house, Tawney followed, barking and yelping, and doing
-all he could to worry poor puss. Of course this was not at all pleasing
-to the inmates, and generally Tawney emerged, as quickly as he entered,
-followed by a flying broom-stick, sometimes by the contents of a pail
-of dirty water; and often by an angry scolding woman, whom we had to
-appease as we best could. Then if he saw a little child with a piece of
-bread, or a mug of milk, he would seize upon the food, knocking down
-the child by the roughness of his spring; and then we had again to
-apologise and explain, and regret, and so on; and although all these
-pranks were done in the joy and delight of his heart, at starting for a
-good run in the country, that was no comfort to the aggrieved cats and
-children; and he became so unbearable when in the town, that we used to
-make a circuit to avoid the streets, or else as I said before, take him
-inside the carriage.
-
-Then when we reached the lanes and roads, we gave him his liberty,
-which he thoroughly enjoyed. How he raced before us, how he sprang over
-the hedges and walls, sometimes disappearing entirely for a field or
-two, and then suddenly darting out from some wood or garden! Once or
-twice he returned to the carriage with his nose bloody; we could not
-discover what he had been worrying. But it must be confessed that he
-was a fierce little animal, and had no idea of fearing anything.
-
-Sometimes he disappeared altogether when running after the carriage,
-and more than once staid out all night and even two nights; but always
-returned safely and in good plight, as if he had not been starved.
-
-We used to wish that he had the power of telling us his adventures on
-these occasions: where he had slept; what pranks he had played; and in
-how many scrapes and difficulties he had found himself.
-
-His greatest delight was when Papa took him with us to hunt a stack for
-rats. Oh! what a wonderful state of excitement was Tawney in; he used
-to sit staring at a hole in the stack as if his eyes would spring from
-his head, and shaking in every limb with delightful expectation. Then,
-when the rat bolted from his concealment, what a sharp spring did the
-little fellow make; and having dispatched his victim, would peer up to
-the top of the stack and seem to examine so carefully all up the side,
-to discover another hole that looked promising. If none offered, he
-would run off to another stack, and snuffing all round it, search most
-carefully for signs of rat holes.
-
-One of Tawney's most annoying tricks, was his love of fighting; he
-scarcely ever met with another dog, without flying at him and provoking
-him to a severe contest, in which torn ears were his usual reward; but
-this sort of hurt was perfectly disregarded by him.
-
-On one occasion, we went a journey to the sea-shore, and Tawney was put
-into a dog-box, with several other dogs.
-
-While the train was in motion the rattle and noise prevented us from
-hearing them; but at the first station a most tremendous yelping,
-snarling, and shrieking arose from the dog-box; and, on opening the
-door, the whole number of dogs were tearing and biting each other; no
-doubt, having been invited to the contest by our naughty Tawney. The
-combatants having been separated by dint of dragging at their tails,
-legs, and bodies, Tawney, with damaged mouth and ears, though wagging
-his tail and wriggling about with pleasure, was consigned to a solitary
-prison for the rest of the journey; and the remaining dogs were left to
-lick their wounds in peace.
-
-We were anxious to see what Tawney would think of the sea; we had
-neither river, pond, or lake, near our home in the country, so had
-never had an opportunity of trying his powers of swimming.
-
-The first day that we went down to the shingle, the sea was very rough;
-great tops of white foam rolling over on the beach; and we had no idea
-that the little fellow would venture into the midst of such a very
-novel-looking element.
-
-However, we flung a stick in. "Fetch it, Tawney! Fetch it!"
-
-And in plunged the bold little animal; the first wave threw him up on
-the beach again, looking rather astonished; but he did not hesitate to
-try again. The water being so rough, we did not urge his going in any
-further, fearing that he might be washed away; but on smooth days, he
-would swim out a long way, and bring back any floating thing that was
-thrown in; and he enjoyed his swims as much as any regular water-dog
-could do.
-
-He had a habit of paying visits by himself, when we were at home; he
-used regularly to go down the road to a farmer, at some little
-distance, every morning about eight o'clock, and quietly return,
-trotting along the footpath at nine, which, doubtless, he knew to be
-the breakfast hour.
-
-Whilst we were at the sea-side, he used to visit a family with whom we
-were intimate. Running to their gate, he waited till some one rang, and
-entered with them; if their business was not in the drawing-room, he
-again waited till some other person opened the door, and then he
-settled himself on the hearth-rug for about half an hour; after which,
-he took leave by wagging his tail, and came home again.
-
-The lodging in which we were, was one on a long terrace, the front
-looking on the sea, and the back having a long strip of yard opening
-into a lane. The kitchen being in front, Tawney found that he was not
-heard when he barked to be let in at the back of the house.
-
-But the servant did not approve of coming up the steep kitchen stairs
-to let in Mr. Tawney, when the back door was level with the kitchen,
-and only a step for her; and, in some way, Tawney comprehended this;
-for he used to come to the front of the house; and the area of the
-kitchen-window being close to the front door, he was sure that his bark
-was heard. Then he raced round the end of the terrace, and through the
-lane, to the back door; and by the time cook had gone to open it, there
-was Mr. Tawney ready to enter.
-
-There being no fear of housebreakers or thieves here, the dog was
-allowed to sleep in Mamma's bed-room; we provided him with a box and
-some folds of carpeting at the bottom, and made him, we thought, a soft
-comfortable bed.
-
-But Tawney much preferred sheets and blankets, and, my sister sleeping
-in a little bed in the corner of Mamma's room, he used to wait till she
-was fast asleep, and then slip himself on to the bed so quietly as not
-to wake her; and, getting down to the foot of the bed, would remain
-there till morning.
-
-But Mamma said he must stay in his box; and forbad my sister to allow
-him to get on the bed.
-
-As, however, he never tried to do so until she was asleep, she could
-not prevent it. So Mamma listened, and when she heard Tawney very
-softly leave his box and go to the bed, she got up and whipped him, and
-put him back in his box, ordering him to stay there.
-
-Several nights this took place; till Tawney had the cunning to wait
-till Mamma also was asleep, when he crept into the warm resting-place,
-and staid there in peace till the morning.
-
-When daylight appeared, he returned to his own bed, in order to avoid
-the morning whipping, which he knew would come, were he discovered in
-the forbidden place.
-
-When we were returning home, we were to make some visits in London; so,
-thinking it best not to take Tawney, we entrusted him to a man who was
-going to our own town, with many charges as to feeding and watching
-him.
-
-And when we had left London and arrived at home, there was poor Tawney
-safe and well, and extravagantly delighted to see us.
-
-When we enquired about his behaviour on the road, of the man who had
-brought him, he told us that he had been in a terrible fright at the
-London station, thinking that he had lost Tawney entirely.
-
-He had to cross London from one station to another; and there was an
-hour or two to spare before the starting of the train from the second
-station; so, wishing to leave the station for that time, and fearing to
-risk Tawney in the street, he tied him up, as he thought, safely in a
-shed belonging to the station. He was also taking with him some luggage
-belonging to us, among which was a large round packing-case, that
-usually stood in Mamma's room; these were shut up in a store-house at
-the other end of the station.
-
-At the appointed hour our friend returned to the station, and went to
-claim the dog; but no Tawney was in the shed, only the end of the
-broken rope which had fastened him. In great anxiety he ran about
-enquiring of all he met. No one knew anything of the dog, no one had
-seen him pass out of the station; and after fruitless search in all the
-waiting and refreshment rooms, and in short through the whole station;
-he was reluctantly obliged to go for the luggage in order to pursue his
-journey, when, on opening the door of the store-house, what was his joy
-on beholding the missing Tawney, seated on the top of the round packing
-case, that he well knew to belong to his mistress. How he found out
-that the luggage was in the store-house, and how he got in, we could
-not of course discover; and it only confirmed us in our opinion of
-Tawney's intense wisdom. We and Tawney enjoyed ourselves much for some
-weeks, taking long walks, long drives, and hunting rats in all the
-neighbours' stacks. We had some fine games in our own field, and a
-great deal of basking in the sun, as it was a beautiful summer, with
-constant sunshine.
-
-I mentioned, that Tawney used to enrage the people in the cottages by
-trying to worry their cats. On one of these occasions, when he had made
-a dreadful confusion at the door of a cottage containing children,
-upsetting a tub of soap-suds, dirtying the clean sanded floor, and
-frightening an old woman nearly out of her wits, by his reckless
-endeavour to seize on the cat; a man had come angrily out of the
-cottage, and coming close up to the carriage, declared with a clenched
-fist, and a furious countenance, that if Tawney ever approached his
-door again, he would kill him. Papa, who happened to be with us, said
-that if he would give Tawney a good beating, it would punish the dog
-without punishing us; and as he was a great favourite, he begged that
-he would not think of killing him. Then we drove on, leaving the man
-standing sulkily in the road.
-
-Whether Tawney had gone alone to this cottage for the purpose of
-worrying the cat, or whether the man had taken his revenge for the
-first offence, or whether he had done any thing in the matter, we shall
-never know; but we could not help suspecting him when the following sad
-affair happened.
-
-It was a very sultry day, too much so to run or to do anything but lie
-on the grass, which we did during the whole morning. Papa sat reading
-on a bench placed in the shady side of the house, and we were on the
-grass beside him; Tawney lay roasting in the sun, and, now and then,
-panting with heat, came to us in the shade, or even went into the
-dining-room window and flung himself down under the table; some steps
-led into the garden from the window, and as the window-sill was not
-level with the dining-room floor, but raised about two feet above it,
-we had a stool or sort of step inside the window, as well as outside;
-Tawney generally sprang through, without troubling himself about the
-steps.
-
-Soon after Tawney had entered the house, apparently for the purpose of
-cooling himself, we heard a tumble, then another, and I got up to see
-what he was doing. "Why Papa," I cried, "what can be the matter with
-Tawney, he is trying to jump out of the window and cannot reach the
-sill, and falls back again." Papa came to see, and again the dog made
-an ineffectual spring at the low window-sill. Papa lifted him out into
-the garden, saying he supposed he had half blinded himself with lying
-so long in the hot sunshine. But we continued to watch him, and
-presently we saw his limbs twitching in a sort of fit, and he ran
-wildly about us. Papa called to the gardener, and they took him into
-the stable, forbidding us to approach him, as they feared he was going
-mad; they dashed water over him as he lay exhausted on the straw in the
-stable; but soon the fits became more and more violent, and our poor
-dog in a few hours was dead.
-
-A man that examined him by Papa's desire, said there was no doubt that
-he had been poisoned by strychnine. He might have picked up something
-so poisoned while running in the roads, or it might have been purposely
-done by the angry man to whom I alluded. We never found out the manner
-in which it had been administered, and could only regret most heartily
-the loss of our dear playfellow. We had not another dog for a very long
-time, and never shall love one so well as Tawney.
-
-
-
-
-PUFFER, THE PIGEON.
-
-
-What pretty things are pigeons, how happy and nice they look sitting on
-the house-top, and walking up and down the sloping roof with their
-pretty pink feet and slender legs; and then how they flutter up into
-the air, making circles round the house, and now and then darting off
-on a straight flight across the fields. Soon after we came to live at
-our country house, my sister had a present of a pair of fantail
-pigeons, quite white. They were beauties, not the slightest speck of
-any colour was on their feathers; and when they walked about with their
-tails spread out in a fan, and their necks pulled up so proudly, we
-thought them the prettiest creatures we had ever seen. Our Papa allowed
-us to have a nice place made for them in the roof of the stables, with
-some holes for them to go in at, and a board before the holes for them
-to alight on; inside there were some niches for nests, and as the
-fantails were quite young, we soon ventured to put them in there. At
-first we spread a net over their holes, so that they could only walk
-about on the board outside; and when we thought they knew the look of
-the place well, we let them have their entire liberty, and they never
-left us.
-
-Next we obtained a pair of tumblers, these were small dumpy little
-birds, of a burnished sort of copper colour, and such queer short
-little bills; when they were flying, they turned head over heels in the
-air, without in the least interrupting their flight. Then we had some
-capuchins, they were very curious-looking creatures, white and pale
-reddish brown, with a sort of a frill sticking up round their necks,
-and the back of their heads. We called them our Queen Elizabeths, for
-their ruffs were much more like her's than like a monk's hood, from
-which resemblance they are named. Besides these, we had several common
-pigeons, some pretty bluish and white. We fed them regularly in the
-yard, and when they saw us run out of the house, with our wooden bowl
-full of grain, they came fluttering down and took it out of our hands,
-and strutted about close to us so tamely and nicely; and then they
-would whirl up again in the air.
-
-We lived quite close to a railway station, and at one time of the
-autumn, a great number of sacks of grain were brought there for
-carriage to distant parts of the country; for the corn fields were very
-numerous about us. In the process of unloading these sacks from the
-carts, and again packing them on the railway trucks, a quantity of corn
-was spilt about, and our pigeons were not slow to find this out; we
-noticed they were constantly flying over into the station-yards; and
-sometimes when we went to feed them in the morning, they did not come
-for our breakfast at all, having already made a great meal at the
-station. There was an old pigeon-house in the roof of the luggage
-store, which formed part of the station buildings; and our ungrateful
-pigeons actually went and built some of their nests in this pigeon
-house in preference to our own. At least, they laid their eggs there;
-as for building a nest they never did, they trod an untidy sort of
-hollow in the straw and wool we placed for them, and there laid their
-eggs.
-
-We often wondered why it was they did not build beautiful compact and
-smooth nests like the little hedge birds. That was the only thing about
-the pigeons that we did not like--their dirty untidy nests, and the
-frightful ugliness of the newly-hatched pigeons. The first nest they
-had, was made by the white fantails, and we had anxiously watched for
-the hatching, expecting that we should have two beautiful little soft
-white downy pigeons, something like young chickens, or, still better,
-young goslings. And how disappointed we were when we saw the little
-frights, with their bare great heads and lumps of eyes, and their ugly
-red-skinned bodies, stuck full of bluish quills. After that we did not
-much trouble ourselves about the young pigeons, until they came out
-with some feathers, and tried to fly; but for all that, it was very
-provoking to see them go off to another house.
-
-Our favourite of all, was a large handsome pouter or cropper. He was of
-a kind of dove colour, mixed with green and bluish feathers, and when
-he stood upright, and swelled out his breast, he was quite beautiful.
-He became tamer than any one of the pigeons; he would come to the
-window when we were breakfasting, and take crumbs of bread from our
-fingers, he would perch on our shoulders when we called to him in the
-yard, and liked to strut about at the back door, and to come into the
-kitchen and to peck about beneath the table; we called him Puffer. But
-he too was very fond of going to the station, and sitting on the
-store-house roof; and at last, really half our pigeons had their nests
-in the station house instead of in ours. We went and fetched them out,
-nests and eggs altogether, several times; and then we persuaded the
-station men to block up the door of the old pigeon-house, which
-prevented them from laying their eggs there, but they still greedily
-preferred that yard to our own. Then came the harvest time. There were
-many fields of corn within sight of our house, and we perceived that
-our naughty pigeons took to flying out to these fields, instead of
-going so much to the station. How beautiful they looked with Puffer at
-their head, darting along in the sunshine, till they were almost out of
-sight; and in about an hour they would come back again, spreading
-themselves all over the house-top, and lying down to bask in the sun,
-and to rest after their long flight, and the good meal they had made in
-the corn-fields. Puffer would always come down to us, however tired,
-and let us stroke him and kiss his glossy head and neck.
-
-One day after they had all flown far out all over the fields, we heard
-a shot at a distance; we were not noticing it much, beyond saying to
-each other, "There is some one shooting;" but the gardener who was with
-us observed, "I wish it may not be some one firing at your pigeons. The
-farmers can't bear their coming after the grain; I am sorry they have
-taken to flying away to them corn-fields." This alarmed us, and we
-watched eagerly for the return of the pigeons. "Here they come," I
-exclaimed, and presently they were all settling as usual about the
-house top, Puffer in the midst quite safe. "Count them, Sir," said the
-gardener. So we set to work to number the fantails, tumblers, Queen
-Elizabeths, and dear old Puffer; all right, but surely there were not
-so many of the common pigeons; no, two were missing! "They've been shot
-then, sure as fate," said the gardener, "we shall lose them all I
-fear." Next morning we gave them a double breakfast, hoping that not
-feeling hungry, they would not again go to the fields; but off they
-went as usual about mid-day, and very anxiously we watched for their
-returning flight; we could always see Puffer a long way off, he was so
-much larger than the others, and we longed for the time when all the
-corn would be reaped and carried away, out of the reach of our
-favourites.
-
-One by one our pigeons diminished; we begged the gardener to speak to
-the farmers about, and ask them not to shoot our pigeons; but he said
-that it must be very annoying to the farmers to see a tribe of birds
-devouring the produce of their hard labour and anxiety; and that he did
-not wonder at their endeavouring to destroy the thieves. He said that
-if he spoke about it, the farmer would say, "Shut up your birds, and if
-they don't meddle with us, we shan't meddle with them." Then we
-consulted whether we could cage our pigeons; but they had always had
-their liberty, and we were sure that they would not thrive if shut up.
-So we must take our chance, and the naughty things persisted in flying
-over the fields to the distant corn. One day, no Puffer returned to us;
-and in despair we gave away all our remaining pigeons.
-
-
-
-
-DR. BATTIUS--THE BAT.
-
-
-I now come to rather a singular pet. Every one--or rather every
-child--has a dog, or a cat, or rabbits, or thrushes; little birds in
-cages are dreadfully common, and so are parrots; so are jackdaws; and,
-as for ponies and donkeys, what country-house is without them.
-
-But I think that many people have not had a tame bat. It is not
-generally a tempting-looking creature; and I should never have thought
-of taking any trouble to procure one with the intention of petting it.
-
-Our bat put itself into my possession by coming or falling down the
-chimney of my bed-room.
-
-The room was dark; and I heard a scratching and fluttering in the
-chimney for some time. Then I heard the flapping of wings about the
-room; and thought that a robin or a martin had perhaps fallen into the
-chimney and had been unable to make its way again to the top.
-
-I got up, and was seeking a match to light my candle, when the little
-creature came against me, and I caught it with both hands spread over
-it.
-
-I felt directly that it was not a bird; there is something so
-peculiarly soft and strange in the feel of a bat; and I was nearly
-throwing it down with a sort of disgust.
-
-Second thoughts, which are generally best, came in time to prevent my
-hurting the poor little creature; and I lighted the candle, and took a
-good look at my prize.
-
-It was about the size of a small mouse; it kept its wings closely
-folded, and I placed it in a drawer, and shut it up till morning, when
-I and my sister had a long inspection of my prize.
-
-I do not know of what variety it was; for there are, I believe, a great
-many different kinds. He had not long ears; his eyes were very small
-indeed, though bright.
-
-We had never handled a bat before, and were not soon weary of examining
-his curious blackish wings; the little hooks, where his fore-feet,
-apparently, should have been; his strangely-deformed hind feet; and his
-mouse-like body and fur.
-
-We wrapped him up and shut him in a basket, and during the day, I
-caught a handful of flies, of all sizes, and put them into the basket.
-
-When it grew dusk, we opened the basket, and he soon came out and
-fluttered about the room for a time; we found that he had eaten all the
-flies, but not the wings of the larger ones.
-
-When he had been at liberty for some time, we easily caught him again,
-and shut him up; and when he became a little more used to me, I left
-him out all night, being careful to close the opening into the chimney;
-and he used to have the range of mine and the adjoining room during the
-night.
-
-We tried him with a variety of food. I had fancied that bats ate leaves
-and fruit; but he never touched anything of that kind. He would eat
-meat, preferring raw to cooked; and would drink milk, sucking it up,
-more than lapping.
-
-He evidently did not like the light; but sometimes would make flights
-about the room when candles were burning; and, occasionally, I took him
-about in my jacket pocket in the day-time. If I took him out to show
-him to any one in the broad day-light, he never unfolded his wings to
-fly, but remained quietly in my hand with his wings folded.
-
-We had been reading a book in which one of the characters, a strange
-old man, was named Dr. Battius; so we called our bat after him; and I
-do think the little creature learnt to know me. He never fluttered or
-tried to get away from me; and would always let me take hold of him
-without manifesting any fear.
-
-He went several long journeys in my pocket; once I had him with me in a
-lodging by the sea-side, and amused myself much with him. He would sit
-on the table in the evening, lap his milk at my supper-time, and would
-vary his exercise by crawling or progressing along the floor, darting
-about the room, or hanging himself up to something by his hooks, and
-letting his body swing about.
-
-He cleaned himself carefully, used to rub his nose against the soft
-part of his wing, or rather his black skin, for it was not much like a
-wing, and would scratch and clean his body with his hind feet.
-
-People used to say, "How can you keep such a repulsive sort of animal?"
-
-But, in fact he was not a dirty creature; he spent as much time rubbing
-and scraping himself, as any cat would do; and he ate nothing dirty,
-raw beef and flies being his chief food, with a very little milk.
-
-We had heard and read that bats have some extraordinary way of seeing
-in the total darkness, or else that their touch is so delicate, that
-they can feel when approaching any wall or hard thing; and it was so
-with Dr. Battius, excepting on one occasion--the night when I first
-caught him; then he struck against my chest; so that I secured him
-easily, by clasping both hands over him.
-
-But I never after saw him strike against anything; he used to fly about
-my room at night, and I never heard the least tap against any object;
-he even would come inside my bed curtains, and fly to and fro; but I
-could not detect the slightest sound of touching them.
-
-The black skin that formed his wings was so wonderfully soft to the
-touch, that perhaps he felt with that, when the wings were spread out.
-
-I cannot imagine that his crushed-up little eyes could see in the dark;
-they appeared scarcely good enough to see at all in any light.
-
-This poor little creature lived in my care for many months.
-
-I went to visit some friends who were not fond of any animal in the
-house; and I knew that this dusky little creature would inspire
-disgust, if not terror, among some of the party. So, unwillingly, I
-left him at home.
-
-But my sister being away too, the servant, perhaps gave him too much
-food, or he missed his exercise about the room. One morning he was
-found dead in his drawer.
-
-I have no idea whether bats are long-lived animals; or whether they
-would, for any time, flourish in solitude. Had I kept the poor little
-doctor with me, I might have found out more about him.
-
-
-
-
-THE CHOUGH.
-
-
-I think I may here describe a bird, which, although he was not our
-property, was watched with much interest by us, and which we never met
-with but once.
-
-It was a Chough.
-
-It belonged to an officer who was living in the same barracks; and we
-first saw it perched on the window-sill of his kitchen.
-
-"Is that a crow?" asked my sister, pointing to it, as we stopped to
-examine it.
-
-"That cannot be a crow," I answered; "its legs are yellow, as well as
-its beak; and it is more slender, and a more bluish sort of black."
-
-When we approached and offered to touch it; it did not draw back or
-appear shy, but allowed us to stroke its back and look at it quite
-closely.
-
-It was a very handsome bird; its plumage beautifully glossy; its claws
-hooked and black; and its tongue very long. It was pecking at a plate
-of food that was near it; but did not appear very hungry.
-
-Presently, the officer's servant came to the window, and we enquired
-what it was.
-
-"A Cornish Chough," was the answer.
-
-We had never seen one before; indeed, knew nothing about that sort of
-bird. We had, indeed, heard its name in an old song or glee, called the
-"Chough and Crow;" or that begins with those words.
-
-So we asked Mamma about it when we went in, and she showed us an
-account of it, in which we found that it is not at all common
-everywhere, like a crow; but that it only lives in the cliffs of
-Cornwall, Devonshire, and Wales; and has sometimes, but rarely, been
-seen about Beachy Head, and in no other part of Europe, excepting the
-Alps. So that it is really a very uncommon bird.
-
-The same account said that they could be taught to speak like a
-jackdaw.
-
-But we never heard this one say anything, or make any noise, except a
-sort of call or croak, with which he answered the servant who attended
-to him.
-
-We always stopped to stroke and pat him when we went out to walk; and
-he was a great pet with the soldiers, and went about some years with
-the regiment.
-
-He showed his intelligence and quickness in a very curious way.
-
-During the time that the regiment was quartered in Scotland he was
-lost; he had either wandered out of the barrack-gate, and had failed to
-find his way back again; or he had been picked up and carried away by
-some thief. He was, however, never seen or heard of for many months,
-and was given up as lost.
-
-The regiment then removed to Edinburgh; and two or three soldiers went
-to visit a sort of zoological garden in the outskirts. There were a
-great number of cages, among other things; and the attention of the men
-was attracted to one of these cages by the violent fluttering and
-exertion made by the inhabitant to get out.
-
-On coming closer to the cage, they perceived that the prisoner was the
-old Cornish Chough; and they asked the keeper if it was lately that
-they had confined it, since it seemed so uneasy.
-
-The man said that it had been in that cage for a long time, and never
-had been otherwise than perfectly quiet and satisfied.
-
-They wished to take it away, saying they knew the bird's former master;
-but the owner refused to part with it, and the soldiers passed on.
-
-On their way back, the keeper was still standing watching the bird;
-who, as soon as the soldiers came again in sight, fluttered and dashed
-itself violently against the bars.
-
-The man said that losing sight of them, it became quiet, and sat
-dolefully on its perch; but the moment it again saw them, it exerted
-all its strength to reach them.
-
-There is no doubt that the poor bird recognised the red-coats, among
-which it had formerly lived, and wished to go to his old friends.
-
-The soldiers told the officer how they had discovered his old pet; and
-he purchased it from the keeper of the garden.
-
-The poor Chough manifested great pleasure at being again in the barrack
-kitchen, and followed the fortunes of the regiment until his master's
-death, when we lost sight of the yellow-billed yellow-legged Cornish
-Chough.
-
-
-
-
-THE KITTENS--BLACKY AND SNOWDROP.
-
-
-"Guess what we have, Mamma! Guess!" cried I and my sister, as we ran
-into the dining-room, with something wrapped up in each of our
-pinafores. So Mamma felt, and found that we had something alive; then
-she guessed guinea-pigs, then rabbits; at last we rolled out on the
-carpet two little kittens.
-
-They were such soft, pretty little things; one was black and the other
-white. I chose the black one, and my sister had the white. They lived
-chiefly in the nursery, and were soon very familiar, and quite at home.
-
-My black one, however, was pleased to be much fonder of my sister than
-of me; it particularly insisted on sleeping on my sister's bed; and we
-sometimes changed beds to see if it would follow her. Blacky would jump
-on the bed, come and look at my face, waving his tail about in the air,
-and seeing that it was his own master, he would bound off the bed and
-go and look in the other, and being satisfied that my sister was there,
-he would curl himself up at her back. In consequence of some illness in
-the nursery, my sister was sent to another room, and Blacky not finding
-her in the nursery, went and looked into all the bed-rooms until he
-found her. Snowdrop, as we called the white cat, used to sleep in a
-large wardrobe, rolled up upon some of the clothes. They were both very
-fond of getting into cupboards and drawers, and often startled us, and
-others, by springing out, when drawers and closet-doors were opened in
-different rooms; we were obliged to forbid them the drawing-room,
-because they would get on the chimney-piece, and on the top of a
-book-case where there was a good deal of china, and we thought they
-would certainly throw down and break it all in their rough games.
-
-At the time we had these cats, we had also the jackdaw and hawk; and
-Blacky and Snowdrop often went to have a game with Jacky, who liked
-them; they used to run after him round his bush, and amuse themselves
-with whisking their tails about, and seeing him peck at them. But when
-they tried the same game with the hawk, they found a very different
-creature to deal with; for the savage bird darted at the playful little
-creatures, and very nearly bit off Blacky's tail; and afterwards, if he
-saw them in the garden, although they did not offer to approach his
-stump, he would slyly steal among the shrubs and bushes, till he got
-near enough to them to make a dart at their tails, and many a savage
-bite he gave them.
-
-We did not keep these cats long. Blacky disappeared entirely; whether
-some one stole him for the luck of having a black cat, or what became
-of the poor little fellow we did not know. Snowdrop was fond of running
-on the top of the garden-walls, and of hunting little birds about the
-roads; and it seems strange that so active an animal as a cat should
-allow itself to be run over, but Snowdrop, in hunting a bird across the
-railway, which ran on the other side of our garden wall, was actually
-killed by the train.
-
-
-
-
-BLUEBEARD, THE SHETLAND PONY.
-
-
-Our donkey, Neddy, was never replaced; but instead of him we had a far
-better pet, a beautiful little Shetland pony! We had left Ireland, and
-went to live in England; we had a nice garden, a paddock and some
-fields, and a stable; and when we saw all this, we ran to Papa and
-begged that we might now have another donkey, as there was plenty of
-room for him. But Papa said we might now very well ride a pony, and
-that he would look out for a nice one. Shortly after this he went to a
-large horse-fair at Doncaster, and almost before he could have arrived
-there, we began to look out and watch for his return with the pony.
-
-We made all kinds of guesses about the size and the colour that the
-pony would be, and wrote out a long list of names suitable for a
-Shetland. I wished that it might be black, and my sister wished for a
-cream colour; but I believe that no such thing exists as a
-cream-coloured Shetland. And after all our expectation, Papa came home
-so late, that we did not see him that night.
-
-We besieged his door next morning, shouting, "Did you find a pony? Have
-you bought the pony?" Yes, a pony had come, but we were not to look at
-him until Papa came down; and after breakfast, Papa sent for it to the
-dining-room window. Oh! what a nice little roly-poly of rough hair it
-was. It was very small, and its funny little face peeped out from the
-shaggy bunch of hair over its eyes, in such a sly way. Its mane was a
-complete bush, and its tail just swept along the ground. And all over
-its body the coat was so thick and soft, and so long, that the legs
-looked quite short and dumpy. Altogether, it was the most darling
-little fellow any one could imagine; its colour was dark-brown, and its
-mane and tail nearly black.
-
-Papa promised to get a nice saddle and bridle for it, as we declared
-that Neddy's old pad was so shabby, that it would be a shame to put it
-on this little beauty. But, meantime, we were well satisfied to use it,
-and commenced our rides forthwith; scarcely a day passed without our
-making a long excursion. Sometimes Mamma walked with us, and sometimes
-only nurse; we used to trot along the road for some distance, and then
-canter back again to Mamma, so that we had a long ride, whilst she only
-took a moderate walk; and we soon had explored every lane and bye-road
-near our new home.
-
-After much debate about the pony's name, we had fixed on two or three,
-and finding that we could not agree on the important subject, we wrote
-out the names on slips of paper, and drew lots. "Bluebeard" was the
-name that we drew the oftenest, so that was decided; and as he really
-had a very long beard, we thought it very appropriate.
-
-Although Bluebeard was a decided beauty, it must be confessed that he
-had a great number of tricks, and was not the best-behaved pony in the
-world. When we were out riding, if we met any carts on the road, or in
-passing through the streets, Mamma or nurse used to lead him by the
-bridle; this _we_ used to consider a great affront to our horsemanship,
-and Bluebeard, doubtless, thought it an affront to himself, for he
-could not bear to be led; he shook his head, and tried to get the
-bridle out of their hand, and failing to do so, he revenged himself by
-biting and tearing Mamma's shawl or dress; and our poor nurse had
-scarcely a gown left that was not in rents and holes from Bluebeard's
-teeth; she said it took her half her time to mend her clothes, for she
-never went out with us and returned with her clothes whole. This amused
-us very much; but Mamma thought she should have liked Bluebeard better
-if he had been less playful.
-
-With good living, and the care that was lavished on him in our stable,
-he soon became fatter, and very frisky, so full of wild spirits and
-play, that we could not quite manage him. So Mamma had a very small
-basket-work carriage made, just to fit Bluebeard; it was painted
-dark-blue, and was very pretty; it had two seats, so just carried us,
-and Mamma and nurse.
-
-Now we drove out one day, and rode the next; the carriage was so low,
-that we could jump in and out as Bluebeard trotted along; and we liked
-to run, holding on by the back, to see whether we could run as fast as
-Bluebeard at his fastest trot; and when we jumped out, he used to turn
-his head round and look for us, and sometimes made a full stop till we
-got in again. Mamma thought that the heavier work of drawing the
-carriage with four people in it, would prevent Bluebeard from becoming
-too frisky and unmanageable, as, certainly, it was far greater labour
-for him than a quiet trot with only myself or sister on his back; but I
-believe that the more work he had, the more corn he ate, for he
-scampered along with the carriage as if it were nothing at all, and
-grew more and more skittish. It was very amusing to watch for donkeys
-as we drove along the roads, for he could not bear to meet one; if he
-spied the long ears at a little distance, he used to fling up his head,
-stand still for an instant, and then turn sharply round, and rush away
-in the opposite direction to the offending object; this he did whether
-we were riding or in the carriage. It signified but little when we
-rode; for all that happened was our tumbling off, when he twitched
-himself round; and as he met Mamma and nurse a little way back on the
-road, he was always stopped.
-
-But in the carriage it was a very awkward trick, and we should often
-have been upset, had not the front wheels turned completely under the
-body of the carriage, so Bluebeard could twist round, and put his head
-quite inside without upsetting us.
-
-Once or twice, when going up a hill, a donkey suddenly put up his head
-from behind the hedge. Round flew Bluebeard with such a jerk, as nearly
-to throw us out of the carriage, and having whisked us round, he tore
-down the hill at a furious rate. All that could be done on such
-occasions, was for one of us to jump out and hold his head before he
-had time to turn round; and, therefore, we always kept a sharp look out
-for donkeys on the road. This dread of Bluebeard's was the more
-strange, as he was extremely friendly with a poor half-starved donkey
-that was sometimes put into the same field with him. He used to rub his
-head against it, talk to it, (that is, hold their noses near together),
-and seemed quite to like its company. But any other donkey inspired him
-with downright terror. Another bad trick when in the carriage, was
-kicking, which he often did, sometimes throwing his heels so high that
-he got them over the shaft, and then we had the fun of unharnessing him
-completely, in order to put him in again.
-
-It sometimes took a very long time to catch him, though the field was
-very small; he would come close to the groom, and when he put out his
-hand to catch him, he would give his head a toss and gallop off round
-the field; now and then, when weary of his fruitless attempts at
-catching him, the groom would set the field-gate wide open, and
-Bluebeard would dart through it, along the lane, and up the hill to our
-house. But it was rather a risk doing so, as it was quite a chance
-whether he would go home, or in any other direction.
-
-When he was fairly in the stable, and cleaning and harnessing had
-commenced, he by no means ceased from his playful tricks: he would roll
-in the straw with his legs kicking up; then he would bounce about in
-all directions, to prevent the bridle from being put on; and shake his
-head till all his shaggy mane fell over his eyes.
-
-All this was meant for play and fun; but the groom often was
-reprimanded for unpunctuality, in not bringing the carriage to the door
-for half-an-hour or more after the time when it was ordered. Certainly,
-if Bluebeard would not be caught, and then would not be harnessed, it
-was not the groom's fault. However, he began to be very sharp and cross
-with the pony; and once pulling him roughly up from sprawling on his
-back, instead of standing still to be combed, Bluebeard dashed his head
-at him and gave him a bad bite on the chest.
-
-When Mamma came out to put a plaister on the bite, she was very angry,
-and said that if Bluebeard bit in his play, she could not allow us to
-keep him; and she desired that he should not have half so much corn.
-
-But I do believe the groom paid no attention to this order, and gave
-him just as much as before; for the wicked little pony never became one
-bit quieter, and we often had to beg hard that sentence of dismissal
-should not be pronounced.
-
-Whenever Papa had time to take us riding with him, or could spare his
-horse for the groom, we had a nice ride, Bluebeard having a long rein
-which Papa or the groom held, we found that he went a great deal better
-than when Mamma walked with us; indeed, he had then no time to play
-tricks, for it was as much as he could do to keep up with the great
-horse, whose walk matched with our gentle trotting; his trot to our
-cantering; and when the horse cantered, Bluebeard was put to his full
-speed.
-
-We enjoyed these rides immensely; but, unluckily, they were few and far
-between, as the horse could be spared very seldom; therefore, we still
-continued our plan of Mamma walking, and we riding by turns; and it was
-a great excitement to us, watching for Bluebeard's tricks, for we were
-much afraid of his being sent away as too tiresome; and we tried in all
-ways to prevent and to conceal his delinquencies.
-
-I very frequently went over his head, for he liked to go precisely the
-way he chose; and if we came to a turning in the road, and I pulled the
-bridle in one direction, Bluebeard was certain to insist on going the
-other. Then he tugged, and I tugged; but his neck was so strong, and
-his mouth so hard, that I seldom could succeed in making him go my way;
-and unless some one came to my assistance, the dispute generally ended
-by Bluebeard putting his head between his legs, and pitching me over
-his head.
-
-My sister suggested that the best way to manage him would be always to
-urge him to go the way we did not wish, and he, being certain to differ
-from us, would take, as his own choice, the road that we really
-intended.
-
-This was the same plan as that suggested for refractory pigs, who will
-never go forwards; viz., to pull them backwards, when they will at once
-make a bolt in the desired direction.
-
-But I objected, that it was a shabby way of proceeding to manage him by
-deceit, and I preferred being flung over his head in open contest; and
-the plan was given up as too cowardly; and as my rolls were generally
-in the soft sandy lanes or on the grass by the road side, I never was
-in the least hurt.
-
-My sister, too, had several tumbles which made us laugh very much.
-
-We came once to a place where three lanes met, and Mamma called out to
-my sister, who was riding some way in front, to turn to the right; so
-she pulled the rein, and, as a matter of course, Bluebeard shook his
-mane, tossed his head about, and intimated that he intended to turn
-down the opposite lane to the left. Then my sister pulled and pulled,
-whipping Bluebeard at the same time; but his coat was so immensely
-thick, that he really did not feel a switch the least in the world,
-especially from a little arm like my sister's. So he did not stir, but
-kept twisting his head along the left-hand lane.
-
-"He will kick in a minute," I said; and Mamma ran quickly to take hold
-of his bridle.
-
-When naughty little Bluebeard felt her touch the rein, he made a bolt
-down the lane so suddenly, that he dragged Mamma down on the ground,
-and flinging up his heels at the same time, sent my sister flying, and
-she came down upon Mamma; so there they were rolling over each other in
-the dusty lane.
-
-Bluebeard scampered a short way down the lane and then came back to us,
-whisking his tail, as if to say, "You might as well have come my way at
-once, without causing all this fuss."
-
-And whilst we were employed in shaking the dust off Mamma's and
-sister's clothes, he stood looking at us in a triumphant kind of
-manner.
-
-But after all, he did not have his own way; for when my sister was
-mounted again, Mamma took the bridle and led him down the lane to the
-right and all the way home; and he was not in favour with Mamma for
-some time after.
-
-When the winter came on, his coat grew so thick and heavy, and his mane
-and tail so bushy and long, that he really looked like a great bundle
-of hair rolling along the road; for his legs scarcely showed as high as
-his knee. As for his eyes, it was a mystery how he saw at all; for they
-were not visible, except when we pulled back the hair to look at them:
-there never was such a curious rolypoly-looking little creature.
-
-When the cold of the winter was passing away, it was agreed that
-Bluebeard had better be clipped, his coat being really much too heavy;
-no sheep's fleece could have weighed more.
-
-So we had the pleasure of seeing the little fellow carefully shorn of
-his thick dress; his long bushy tail was left at our particular
-request, and also plenty of mane; we liked that, because we found it a
-great help to clutch a handful of mane, when he tried to kick us off;
-but his eyes were left free to look out, and very saucy they looked.
-
-We were astonished to find how small he looked, and how thin and
-elegant his stumpy little legs appeared, we thought they scarcely
-seemed strong enough to bear our weight; and in the carriage he would
-appear a perfect shrimp.
-
-Then his colour was entirely altered. Instead of dark brown, he was now
-a pale sort of grey; indeed, we could scarcely believe that the same
-pony was before us.
-
-He did not look so droll and round, but much prettier; and we felt
-quite proud of him the next time we rode out with Papa.
-
-When he was next put into the pony-carriage, he almost appeared too
-small for it; and one bad effect of clipping him was, that he evidently
-felt so light and unshackled, that he could not restrain his wish to
-prance and jump; he now perpetually was kicking his legs over the
-shafts; and so, two or three times during a drive, we unharnessed him
-before we could replace him where he ought to be--between the shafts;
-instead of having his fore legs inside, and his hind legs outside.
-
-Mamma said that this was dangerous, and that she feared Bluebeard might
-either break his own legs by this trick, or would upset the carriage
-and break ours. And we began to fear that Bluebeard would some day
-bring on his own dismissal.
-
-One day, Mamma rode Bluebeard herself; and in spite of the greater
-weight, which he must have found very different from that of such small
-children as my sister and myself, Bluebeard kicked so much, and behaved
-altogether in such an improper manner, that Mamma declared he was no
-longer a safe pony for such young children, and said she should expect
-to see us brought home with fractured skulls or broken limbs, if we
-were allowed to ride him.
-
-All our beggings and prayings had no effect. Bluebeard was sold to a
-man in the neighbouring town.
-
-When this man said that he wanted the pony for a little boy to ride,
-Mamma said that he was too ill-broken and too unmanageable for any
-child, and that she did not wish to sell him for that purpose.
-
-But he said that he intended to tie the boy tightly on to the saddle,
-and should make a groom walk with him with a long rein; and then should
-have no fear about the boy's safety. And he bought him, notwithstanding
-Mamma's warning.
-
-We were so sorry to see the poor little fellow led away; our only
-consolation was, that in a year or two we should become too big for
-Bluebeard; and then, at any rate, we must have parted with him.
-
-Now and then we saw the little boy riding him; and the groom that was
-with him showed us that he was strapped on to the saddle by a strap
-across each thigh, and also a strap below each knee; so that it was
-really impossible that he should fall off.
-
-Mamma said it was not at all safe for a child to be fastened in that
-way; for if Bluebeard should take into his head to roll on his back, he
-would most probably kill the child. But as she had warned the father,
-and had told him of all the pony's bad tricks, it was no longer her
-affair to say anything about him, or to meddle with his arrangements.
-
-It was a long time before Papa met with a pony to suit us better. The
-next one was to be so large, that he would last us for many years; he
-must be frisky enough to be pleasant and amusing, and yet must have no
-bad tricks; no kicking and running away; and, above all, he must be
-very pretty indeed, with long tail and mane.
-
-All these qualities were not so easy to find combined; and before I
-talk about the next pony, I will mention some of our other pets.
-
-So good bye to dear little naughty Bluebeard.
-
-
-
-
-JOE, THE GERMAN DOG.
-
-
-Being for some months in a German town, we proposed, before returning
-to England, that we should procure one of the strange-looking little
-German terriers, with long backs and short legs; and we made inquiries
-as to where we could obtain one of the real German breed. We found that
-there are several different races of these dogs; they have all the long
-back, and short bandy legs; but one kind is very large, with pointed
-nose and long tail; another kind is small, with excessively soft hair,
-small head and magnificent large eyes; another kind is small, rather
-wiry in the hair, and unusually long and pointed in the nose.
-
-After seeing several, we at last had one offered to us that we liked,
-and bought; he was of the last-described species; his body long and
-narrow, his legs very short and crooked, and his feet enormous, big
-enough for a dog of three times the size; his tail was long, and
-dangled down in an ungainly sort of way; his head was small, and his
-nose much elongated and pointed; his eyes small and sparkling, and his
-ears rather soft and long. Altogether, he was the queerest-looking
-little animal you would wish to see. We named him Joe, and commenced
-his education by showing him, that he was not to consider our baby
-sister a species of rat, and to worry her accordingly, and by teaching
-him to sleep on a rug in the corner of one of the bed-rooms. He was a
-very sociable merry little fellow, liked scampering after us through
-the range of rooms, all on one floor or flat, and enjoyed running along
-the roads and in the park with us; but he was terribly chilly; he could
-not bear sleeping on his mat, always wanting to be on the bed, or at
-least muffled up in a flannel gown; and in the day, he was happiest
-when he was allowed to creep under the stove and lie there, really
-almost undergoing baking. I never saw an animal bear so much heat with
-satisfaction to himself.
-
-He destroyed half the things in the house before he got over his
-puppy-days; but every one liked him, and he generally escaped
-punishment. He was sharp enough to know his way home, in a very few
-days after we bought him. We had him out in the park and missed him, a
-long way from home; seeing no sign of him, we concluded that some one
-had picked him up, and gave him up for lost, having no idea that the
-little young creature would know its way home; and we were quite
-surprised when we reached our own door, to find Joe sitting there
-waiting; he had come along the crooked walks of the park, through the
-streets, and up our long flight of stairs, and our opinion of his
-sagacity rose in proportion.
-
-Shortly after we had bought Joe, we travelled to England, and
-determined to try whether we could manage to take him in the carriage
-with us, instead of letting the poor little fellow be shut up in a
-dog-box on the train, with, perhaps, a dozen other savage dogs. So
-Papa carried him under his cloak; Joe was very good at the station,
-and kept himself perfectly quiet, until we were all seated in the
-railway-carriage. We were beginning to think that we had him safe for
-that day's journey; and as soon as we had shewn our tickets, could let
-him run about the carriage.
-
-The ticket-taker came to the door, had looked all round, and Papa was
-showing his ticket, when, at the last minute, Joe began to plunge and
-push about under the cloak. Papa held him fast, but the stupid little
-animal set up a yelp, just as the man was leaving the carriage. He
-immediately asked if we had a dog, and poor Joe was hauled out by his
-neck, and Papa had to run in great haste to see him placed in a
-dog-box. And for the next three or four hours, Joe howled incessantly.
-
-When we halted in the middle of the day, we managed better; Mamma took
-him under her shawl, and got into the carriage some time before the
-officials came peeping about, and he lay quiet in her lap, and no one
-meddled with him; so the afternoon of his first day of travel was not
-so miserable as the commencement. Altogether, Joe was a good deal of
-trouble on the journey; there was always a fuss about gaining
-permission to have him in the carriage, and we did not know what to do
-with him at the inns, for fear he should go down stairs and be lost. At
-last we reached England, and for a time lived in London.
-
-At first we were much afraid that Joe would be darting out of the front
-door, and would be stolen immediately. But he soon got used to the
-confinement, only having a yard behind the house to run in, and he made
-himself extremely happy. The house in which we were staying possessed
-two dogs, a cat, a variety of birds, and in the yard lived a cock with
-several hens.
-
-Joe and the cat used to have famous games together, rolling each other
-over and over, then racing round the kitchen, over the tables and
-chairs. When pussy was tired, she sat upon a chair and slapped Joe's
-face, whenever she could reach him, as he ran barking round the chair.
-One of the dogs was very old and fat, and did not at all approve of the
-new comer's vivacious ways, but growled at Joe fiercely when he tried
-to entice him to play. The other dog was also too fat to be very
-active; and when Joe found that no fun was to be had with them, he
-merely danced round them now and then, to have the pleasure of making
-them angry, and seeing them show their teeth; and then he left them to
-their slumbers, and scampered off to the cat, who was more suited to
-his age and manners.
-
-Out in the yard he had much amusement with the fowls; at first sight he
-had been rather frightened at them, but soon took pleasure in seeing
-them flutter about and run away from him. The cock, however, did not
-run away, but faced Master Joe, and crowed at him, and ran at him in
-the most valiant manner; and when Joe was too pertinacious in barking
-at him and teazing him, the cock actually sprang upon his back and
-pecked him, until Joe crouched down on the ground fairly beaten. In
-return, however, Joe nearly caused a death-warrant to be pronounced
-against the cock and all the hens, by teaching them to eat eggs.
-
-One morning, the hens were observed to be in a great state of
-excitement, pecking greedily at something on the ground, which, on
-examination, proved to be a new-laid egg, broken and devoured by the
-unnatural hens. The next day another and another was found in the same
-way; in fact, as soon as the eggs were laid, they were brought out of
-the hen-house and broken. So it was agreed, that the hens having once
-contracted this bad habit, could never be cured, and had better all be
-killed. But before this determination had been put in practice, Mamma
-chanced to look out of the window early, just after Joe had been sent
-out for his morning walk, and spied the naughty creature coming out of
-the hen-house with an egg in his mouth. Presently all the hens and the
-cock ran out after him, calling, "Stop thief!" or, rather, implying
-those words by their cackling and noise; and they pursued Joe round and
-round the yard, until they came up with him all in a body, and the egg
-being dropped in the scuffle, was of course broken; and then the hens
-fell upon it and ate it up.
-
-This it seems took place every morning. Joe fetched eggs out of the
-nests; and the hens, after pretending to be very angry, ended by
-joining in the robbery.
-
-The next time Joe was seen with an egg in his mouth, one of the
-servants went out and called to him, when he placed it on the ground so
-gently, that it was not even cracked; and if we could manage to catch
-him before the hens rushed upon him, we always obtained the egg safe
-enough; for he did not break it or eat it himself, only put it into the
-hen's heads to do so; and, probably, his only object was to make the
-whole family of hens run after him, which he seemed much to enjoy.
-
-So the sentence of death against the cock and hens was not pronounced,
-as it seemed the whole fault lay with Joe; and whenever we could catch
-him approaching the hen-house he received a good whipping.
-
-He had, however, that sort of temper which cares not the least for
-whipping or scolding; he never was at all abashed or cowed; but made a
-most dreadful yelling whilst the whipping was inflicted, and the moment
-he was released he would dance about perfectly happy, and immediately
-go and repeat the fault--he was quite incorrigible.
-
-We managed to prevent, in a great measure, his stealing eggs, by not
-letting him out so early; and when he went into the yard people were
-going in and out, that could watch him.
-
-So, to make amends for the loss of his morning's fun, he used to push
-aside the window curtain and blind, as soon as it was light, and stand
-on his hind legs at the window, watching the cock and hens; now and
-then signifying his approval of their proceedings by a short bark.
-
-He slept in an arm-chair, covered up with an old dressing gown. On one
-occasion this was removed, and we thought Joe would do just as well
-without it; but with his great love of warmth, he absolutely refused to
-sleep without a warm covering. He was much perturbed, and ran squeaking
-about the room, till after keeping us awake half the night, we were
-obliged to get up, and supply him with something soft to envelope him
-in the arm-chair.
-
-When Joe was tired of playing with the cat, the dogs, and the fowls, he
-used to go to the top of the house into our baby-sister's nursery. He
-was very fond of her; but usually timed his visits so as to come in for
-her dinner or supper, of which he always had a share.
-
-She used to put her tin of milk on the floor and sit beside it: first
-Joey took a lap or two, then baby had a sip; and so they emptied the
-mug together: and at her dinner, Joe used to eat the pudding at one
-side of the plate, whilst baby worked away at the other.
-
-Then they took a roll on the floor together, and whatever rough pull or
-pinch was bestowed on Joe, he never snapped or hurt the little girl;
-indeed, would let her do anything she liked with him.
-
-He was very long before he gave up his puppy fashion of tearing and
-biting everything. If a book or a piece of work fell on the ground,
-Joey's sharp teeth soon brought them into a deplorable condition. If he
-could get hold of a bonnet, he soon dragged off ribbon, flowers, lace,
-and whatever it possessed; and poor little baby's toys, balls, and
-dolls were never presentable after they had been five minutes in the
-house.
-
-Then he wickedly pulled to pieces the mat at the bottom of the stairs,
-for which he was well whipped; in short, the mischief he did was
-terrible.
-
-His encounters with the cock did not prove sufficient exercise for the
-hardy little fellow; and he began to get so fat, that we determined to
-send him into the country, to some place where he would have a great
-deal of running about out of doors.
-
-We were sorry to part with him for the time we should be in London; but
-we did not wish to see him become too fat to waddle.
-
-So Papa took him with him when he went into the country to visit some
-friends. He placed him with a man who was to teach him rat-hunting; and
-Joe showed that he had an excellent nose, and promised to be a
-first-rate ratter.
-
-But when Papa had returned to London, we heard that poor Joe had made
-his appearance again at the house of the friend whither Papa had first
-taken him. He was looking sadly thin and wretched, and ran into the
-bed-room Papa had used, and searched for him in all directions.
-
-The poor little fellow remained there until Papa made another
-arrangement for him, as evidently he had been ill-used by the
-rat-catcher.
-
-He next was sent to a gamekeeper's, who lived in a nice park, where
-there was a beautiful rabbit-warren, plenty of stacks for ratting, a
-stream to swim in, and fields and farms to range about.
-
-There we hoped he would be very happy; and as poor little Joe is still
-alive, I have not to relate his end at present, and hope that he will
-still afford us much amusement.
-
-                     *      *      *      *      *
-
-Now I think I have described the greater part of the animals, birds,
-and creatures of all kinds that belonged to me and my sister. How much
-pleasure we derived from them! And what a mixture of pity and contempt
-we always felt for children who feared or disliked animals!
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-There was a family of little children near us once, when we had our
-dear dog Tawney; how they used to scream and run whenever they saw him!
-even though he was taking no notice of them in particular. Then they
-would take up stones and throw them at him, really intending to hurt
-him; for their intense fear of the dog rendered them quite cruel; and
-when he found that they tried to hurt him, and shouted at him, he used
-to bark in return, which of course terrified them more.
-
-Then some of our friends had quite a horror of our hedgehog, and our
-bat, and wondered how we could kiss Neddy's nose, and Bluebeard's. I am
-sure their soft nice coats were quite as pleasant to kiss, as many
-people's faces.
-
-I only wish that all little children would love animals, and find as
-much amusement as we did in the care of our Live Toys.
-
-
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