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 *tured canary, "I should like to make your acquaintance. You go about so much you must see and hear a good many things that we don't."

"Well, I guess I could tell you a thing or two that would make your feathers curl," answered the stranger.

Just then the children came along with the little gray kitten that had been washed and fed, and seated themselves on the steps of the piazza.

"Hallo!" called out the sparrow to the little gray kitten, "how in the world did you turn up here?"

"Do you know her?" asked Mrs. Polly.

"Well, I should rather think I did, seeing as I have lived, as you might say, in the same family."

"How is little Nancy?" asked the little gray kitten. "I have worried a good deal about that child since I left home. That's the little girl I told you was so