got too far ahead and showing manifest 

 delight when we stopped to allow it to catch 

 us up, or when, its exercise being deemed to 

 be duly accomplished, we took it up and 

 replaced it in a pocket. Indoors, as I say, it 

 had its basket, to which it was often thought 

 safer to transfer it even in the daytime. So 

 long as one of its young owners remained in 

 the room it would lie snugly and happily in 

 its mansion even if the lid were closed. But 

 if we all went out it would immediately be- 

 come conscious of its solitude and would cry 

 piteously, until one of us returned and spoke 

 to it, when it would cease its wailing and 

 snuggle into its flannel once more. We tried 

 this trick before all the servants and with any 

 visitor who came to the house, and it never 

 failed. As I look back upon it, it seems to me 

 that we sported cruelly with affection and 

 companionship. 



S On the second morning one of the boys 



had a brilliantly happy thought. " Why 



not," he said, " give it a swim in the big 



31 c j SS bath?" 



