84 The Story of Scr aggies 



wanted to know more about Scraggles. 

 As I told the story, others desired to 

 hear it. Then in a lecture on " The 

 Radiant Life " I told it again, and thou- 

 sands were touched to tears by the 

 simple narrative of the sweet little bird's 

 beautiful and trustful life. 



Fortunately, my familiarity with the 

 camera had made me desire to make 

 some photographs of Scraggles some 

 three weeks before her death. My 

 daughter and I made several, and then 

 a friend came and made two or three 

 others, so that now we feel really blessed 

 in possessing these counterfeit present- 

 ments of the little creature. 



When our friends saw these photo- 

 graphs they desired copies of them ; and 

 when, after the publication of " In and 

 Out of the Old Missions," strangers be- 



