BILLY AND HANS 



or if I delayed he would climb down 

 the curtain and come to me. One 

 night I was out late, and on reaching 

 home I went to take him, and not 

 finding him in his place, alarmed the 

 house to look for him. After long 

 search I found him sitting quietly 

 under the chair I always occupied in 

 the study. He got very impatient if 

 I delayed for even a moment putting 

 him to bed, and, like Billy, he used 

 to nip my hand to indicate his dis- 

 content, gently at first, but harder 

 and harder till I attended to him. 

 When he saw that we were going 

 upstairs to the bedroom he became 

 quiet. 



Whether from artificial conditions 

 of life, or, as I am now convinced by 

 greater experience of his kind, because 

 he suffered from the loss of Billy 

 (after whose death he never recovered 



