BILLY AND HANS 



what he would do, and stopped at the 

 threshold, he bit her hand gently to 

 spur her forward to the bed. When 

 put on the bed, he nestled down in 

 the fur of my bed-cover perfectly con- 

 tented. As long as I kept my room, 

 he was brought up every day, and 

 passed the day on my bed. At other 

 times the two slept together in an 

 open box lined with fur, or, what they 

 seemed greatly to delight in, a wisp 

 of fragrant new-mown hay, or the 

 bend of the window-curtain, so nestled 

 together that it was hard to distin- 

 guish whether there were one or two.' 



« My wife adds the following Note : — 

 " In this bend of the curtain they would lie 

 asleep the whole day in cold weather after 

 having dragged over them their woollen and 

 fur covers. They would scrape the wool 

 from the former to line the nest with, and 

 in this soft retreat passed most of their time. 

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