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THE HOME OF A NATURALIST. 



looking very much ashamed and crestfallen, and as 

 though he was exceedingly afraid his well-meant, 

 honest zeal had for once carried him too far. I do 

 not know whether the effort had been too much for 

 his feeble strength, or whether the reproaches of 

 conscience — he had a conscience, without doubt — 

 proved more than he was able to bear; but the fact 

 is he survived Toby only a few days ; and they were 

 buried tenderly and sorrowfully side by side in a little 

 patch of ground consecrated as the cemetery of Our 

 Pets. 



"BALAAM THE BRAHMIN." 



