YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



and sit in a solemn row on the red bridge- 

 posts and scold -- "Caw! caw! caw!" 

 Mamma said they were holding a town- 

 meeting. 



We did not find out for five years that 

 Dandy Jim was among them till, one day, 

 we were riding over the bridge with Don 

 and Dora and he did not fly away with the 

 rest of the crows, but sat still on the bridge- 

 post. Soon as papa could stop the horses 

 he called back, "Jimmy, Jimmy, poor Jim- 

 my!" and the big black bird spread out and 

 shook his shining wings, and answered in the 

 same funny half coaxing, half gulping, 

 cracked voice in which he used to tease for 

 his beefsteak breakfast when he was one of 

 the family. He seemed delighted to hear his 

 old name called, and hopped along on the 

 railing toward us. In five long years of 

 mingling with his wild mates he had not 

 forgotten his name nor papa's voice, but he 

 had grown shy and had not the courage to 

 let papa pick him up. Mamma said he was 

 happier to go free and have the liberty of 

 his native isle, for he was born down in one 

 of the tall poplar-trees. 



That very winter, too, after papa tried to 



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