366 FRANCIS TEEVELTAN BUCKLAND. 



and the Hag goes immediately to the fender and 

 warms herself like a good monkey ; as she, being 

 older, seems to know that if she misbehaves her- 

 self she will have to be put back into her cage. . . . 



" Tiny steals whatever is on the table, and it is 

 great fun to see her snatch off the red herring from 

 the plate and run off with it to the top of the book- 

 shelves. While I am getting my herring, Tiny 

 goes to the breakfast table again, and, if she can, 

 steals the egg ; this she tucks under her arm, and 

 bolts away, running on her hind legs. This young 

 lady has of late been rather shy of eggs, as she 

 once stole one that was quite hot, and burnt her- 

 self. . . . 



" Having poured out the tea, I open the < Times ' 

 newspaper quite wide, to take a general survey of 

 its contents. If I do not watch her carefully, 

 Tiny goes behind the chair, on to the book-shelf, 

 and comes crash into the middle of the 'Times/ 

 Of course, she cannot go through the ' Times ' ; but 

 she takes her chance of a fall somewhere, and her 

 great aim seems, to perform the double feat of 

 knocking the ' Times ' out of my hand and upset- 

 ting the tea-pot and its contents ; or, better still, the 

 tea-pot on the floor. Lately, I am glad to say, she 

 did not calculate her fall quite right ; for she put 

 her foot into the hot tea and stung herself smartly, 

 and this seems to have had the effect of making 

 her more careful for the future. All the day of 

 this misfortune she walked upon her heels, and not 

 upon her toes as usual. 



