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I prepared my room for him by taking up the rug, spreading" 

 an old comforter over the bed and removing everything that 

 I thought could possibly attract his attention. Before the sumjner 

 was over there were only two things he had not tried to taste — 

 the iron bed and a much treasured old chest. 



When Jim first came out of his cage he was nearly as fright- 

 ened as when he was in it. When he got outside of those terrible 

 ban^ his fears soon vanished. He was still too young to do much 

 jumping so he crept about sticking his inquisitive nose into every 

 comer. He discovered a piece of old carpet in the door-way 

 and his terrible journey, the cage, the strange place and all his 

 troubles were all forgotten. He grabbed that carpet in his teeth, 

 gave it a few pulls and tosses and rolled over and over with it 

 exactly as a kitten plays with a string. When the game had 

 ended Jim. felt quite at home. 



Soon darkness began to fall and then Jim. looked around for 

 a bed. A comer by a trunk was chosen and there he slept for 

 several nights. 



One day I put him up on the window-sill. This pleased him. 

 He soon learned to crawl up by him.self. Up a pile of books, 

 across the desk, then down the window-sill he would go, a rather 

 round-a-bout way but one that required but very small jumps. 

 Now the weather was warm and Jim very wisely decided that 

 the window-sill was a more comfortable bed room than was the 

 comer by the trunk. So there he curled himself at bed time 

 and went to sleep. In the night I heard a great scratching and 

 scrambling. I hurried to the window and was just in time to 

 save Jim fr3m a fall. In some way he had slipped and was hang- 

 ing by his fore paws from the sill. 



Not many days afterward he found that by a short leap from 

 the window-sill to a chair and up the chair back, he could reach 

 the bureau. Here he slept comfortably for some weeks. At 

 first he curled up between two boxes. If those boxes were not 

 in place at bed time he would hunt around and seem very unhappy* 

 Later he was given a shoe box and a piece of woolen cloth that 

 he pulled over him just as any one pulls up the bed clothes. 

 From the scrap box he chose a piece of blue voile and from the 

 bureau drawer he took a stocking. 



