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 "My wife and children are pretty well used to taking care of themselves, and they'll be as well off without me as with me. There's a great advantage in the vagabond life I've led; and being of no use in the world you won't he missed, and that's a comfort;" and the sparrow laughed recklessly.

"Don't talk so," said Mrs. Polly; "you know you don't mean it."

"Perhaps I don't," said the sparrow carelessly.

"You've got on your blue spectacles today, I guess," said Mrs. Polly, "and you like to make yourself out worse than you are."

"I'm sure we should miss you very much," said the canary. "We have so little variety to our lives, shut up here in these cages, that it's very pleasant to have you coming and going, and bringing us news from the busy world. Why, we should never have known about little