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Nothing seemed to 

 please Jim more than 

 to get in everyone's 

 wa)' when v\e w ere 

 about the daily liouse- 

 work, and ironinjj; day- 

 was liis dehght. If pos- 

 sible lie would get in 

 the clothes basket and 

 jump up and down on 

 the clean clothes with 

 his dirty feet, and when 

 drive,;i off, run undc-rthe 

 table cackling with 

 great glee. But his 



gravest fault was his inquisitiveness. No human being possessed a larger 

 bump of curiosity than he, and it often caused him great inconvenience. 

 Alas it \\ as the death of him. It happened on a beautiful day in October; 

 one of those days when our hearts are filled with joy, and everything 

 seems to go along just right. Well, Jim had spent the day in mischief 

 generally; parading around on the backs of the terror stricken hens; driv- 

 ing the chickens from their meals; calling for something when he didn't 

 want it; startling some unsuspecting member of the family by suddenly 

 alighting upon their head and shoulders, and then flying away cawing 

 mockingly. He was snapped at by Nero, when poking his beak into his 

 ear; rescued in time from pussy when his curiosity led him to molest her 

 kittens; he was scolded by his master when he picked his shaving pad to 

 pieces, and by his mistress when he picked currants from her cake. At 

 last he was put out of doors. Still he 

 couldn't rest easy. Our hired man 

 (a more tender hearted man never 

 lived than he), was cutting up some 

 small twigs for kindlings. Jim would 

 not let him alone, but kept lighting 

 on his head and bothered him in all 

 ways possible. He also thought it 

 was his duty to assist in putting 

 twigs up on the chopping block. 

 Alas, at one trip he missed his calcu- 

 lations, and before the fatal weapon 

 could be stopped it had done its ter- 

 rible deed, and poor Jim never moved 

 again. 



iLORKNCb E. Dunn. Auburn, 



