52 The Story of 5 cr aggies 



coming to take me and kill me, perhaps; 

 so, though I felt weak all over, I called 

 up all my strength and hopped and 

 fluttered right up to Fessor and jumped 

 for safety upon his foot. 



Then he seemed to be ashamed of 

 himself, and said something to Mamma 

 about its being " too bad to tease a poor 

 little Scraggles like that." So you see, 

 I knew he had done it to tease me. 

 But he picked me up and loved me so 

 sweetly and gave me two pinion nuts 

 which he chewed up for me, so that I 

 could n't help forgiving him. 



Oh! and I mustn't forget to tell you 

 about how he used to dig up slugs and 

 worms for me. While I would be hop- 

 ping about on the lawn he would go to 

 a corner of the lawn and begin to dig. 

 As soon as I saw him digging I did n't 



