YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



sun, and Tit-Willow and Dandy Jim acted 

 worse and worse, and I was beginning to 

 tremble, because papa had to scold. He 

 had his head under the black cloth till his 

 face streamed with perspiration; but just as 

 he thought he had us all right we fell into 

 another melee, and he lost all patience and 

 threw his cap at us and sent us scattering. 

 Then he turned the garden-hose on to cool 

 the air, but Dandy Jim thought that was 

 great fun and just spread out his blue-black 

 wings and shook them in the water-drops - 

 a shower-bath was what he longed for. As 

 for Tit- Willow, he didn't care a whit as he 

 waltzed away, for he would wade out at low 

 tide into the salt water, and fish out a mum- 

 my-chub for his breakfast with his big dou- 

 ble paws. I've seen him do this, and many 

 a time I've watched him catch a fish through 

 the air-holes in the ice. 



Papa was sorry afterwards that his pa- 

 tience didn't hold out till he got a better 

 picture of us, for before another spring 

 Dandy Jim's wings grew out, and he flew 

 away from the farmer papa hired to keep 

 him and went with seven old wild crows, 

 who used to fly over and around the island 



