me. I like best to have my new table to my grandmother's plate, hop on 

 mother hold a grape in her right hand the edge, and see if she has anything I 

 while I perch on her left and suck all the like. When dinner was ready to be 

 rich, sweet juice next the skin out first ; served I went over on the sideboard, 

 then I take the grape over on the table made holes in all the butter balls, then 

 on a paper and knock it until all the seeds took some mashed potato and boiled on- 

 come out before I eat it. I like bananas, ion and put them to cool in a big hole I 

 too, and go to the fruit dish and open one had made in an apple. Few people know 

 myself. Every morning I perch on the that birds are ever sick at their stomachs, 

 plate or finger-bowl and eat my orange. I had been in the habit of eating a little 



We usually have our orange in our shaved hickorynut that was put in a half 

 room, and sometimes I get so impatient shell and kept in a dish on the back parlor 

 I fly over to the bed, back to the orange, table. When I came down stairs I usual- 

 and beg my new mother to get up. I al- ly took a taste, and it seemed to agree 

 ways take a drink out of the finger bowl with me. For a change I ate a little chest- 

 and often said to myself, "What a fine nut, and soon began to feel bad, so 

 bathtub this would make." When fall went off by myself and tried to go to 

 came I began going to bed at 5 o'clock, sleep. When my new mother saw me she 

 and at 7 was awakened and taken out to said she knew I was not well, for I never 

 dessert. One night I became tired of wait- acted that way in the daytime. She put 

 ing and went out into the .dining-room me in my cage, and sat down beside me. 

 very quietly, and the first thing I spied I would close my eyes and open my bill, 

 was a finger-bowL so thought that was and she thought I was dying until I open- 

 just the time for a bath. In I went. They ed my bill very wide and out came the 

 heard the splashing and looked up to see chestnut in a lump a half inch long and a 

 everything as well as myself soaking wet. quarter wide. 



Of course they thought it very cunning, My mother's writing desk is a fa- 

 but after I did it for three nights I was vorite place of mine. I get into drawers, 

 told two baths a day were too much for pigeon holes and ink ; pictures arid all 

 me. I made up my mind if I could not sorts of small things I throw on the floor, 

 take a bath in the finger-bowl at night, I Once I stole ever so many dimes and 

 would in the morning and, as I refused to pennies. I can lift a silver dollar and 

 go near my old bathtub, the bowl was often carry a coffee-spoon all about the 

 given me for my own. There was a room, so you see I have a very strong bill, 

 bowl of Wandering Jew on the dining- If anything is lost all say "Dewey must 

 table, and several times I took a bath in have taken it." One day my new mother 

 the center. All said I made a beautiful looked until she was tired for her thim- 

 picture, but when they found I was tear- ble. When she asked me for it, I pretend 

 ing the vine all to pieces it was not so ed I did not hear, but as she was going 

 pretty and many lectures were given to into the dining-room I dropped it down 

 me, but I heeded them not, and if taken on her head from the top of the portiere, 

 away I would walk (for I can walk as well I often perch on a basket on top of the 

 as hop) all over the table on the ends of book case in the writing room. When I 

 my toes and look every way but towards saw a new white veil beside me I went to 

 the bowl ; then, when no one was looking, work and made ten of the prettiest eyelet 

 grab a piece and take it up on top of a holes you can imagine, right in front; 

 picture. One day I trimmed all of the pic- some were round and some star-shaped, 

 tures, and there was none left in the As I grew older I said, "I will not sleep 

 bowl, so I had to look up some other mis- in my cage." For a few nights I insisted 

 chief. upon sleeping on the brass rod at the 



When I go out to dinner I have my own head of the bed, then changed to the top 

 little table cloth and plate put by my new of the curtain. I have a piece of soft flan- 

 mother's. I usually take a little of ev- nel over some cotton put on the ledge 

 erything; chicken and cranberry jelly is and on the wall, so I will not take cold, 

 very good. Sometimes I do not behave If it is very cold I get behind the frill of 

 very well, for I go tiptoeing across the the curtain, so no one can see me. If 



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