BILLY AND HANS 



pany, I had never been able to make 

 Hans stay for more than a minute or 

 so. The whole nature of the crea- 

 ture became changed. He reconciled 

 himself to life but never again became 

 what he had been before. His gaiety 

 was gone, his wandering ambitions 

 were forgotten, and his favourite 

 place was my pocket — Billy's pocket. 

 From that time he lost all desire to 

 escape ; even when I took him out 

 into the fields or woods he had no 

 desire to leave me, but after a little 

 turn and a half-attempt to climb a 

 tree, would come back voluntarily to 

 me, and soon grew as fond of being 

 caressed and stroked as Billy had 

 been. It was as if the love he bore 

 Billy had changed him to Billy's like- 

 ness. He never became as demon- 

 strative as Billy was, and to my wife, 

 who was fond of teasing him, he 



