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tails and magpies. The first young bird fledged 

 after her lamented majesty's death last year de- 

 veloped a perfectly drawn black edge over the 

 whole arc of its otherwise pure white tail. 



Other souvenirs, forgotten at the departure and 

 which await their owner's return, were a little 

 wooden spade and a golliwog. The poor golliwog 

 presumably must have strayed away from the 

 house and lost his bearings. When his mistress 

 departed he was not to be found anywhere and 

 was given up for lost. What was my astonish- 

 ment, therefore, about a week later, to find him 

 sitting on one of the cross seats of the punt which 

 floats under the name of the little " Princess " on 

 the stream running through the garden, exalted 

 in its humility by the appellation of " The Drain." 

 The poor creature, though still possessed of suffi- 

 cient strength to sit up, had a most wobegone 

 appearance, and the way in which his head 

 drooped upon his chest, and the vacant, glassy 

 look in his eye, denoted eloquently the mental and 

 physical privation and suffering he must have 

 undergone. I was really quite startled when I 

 saw him again, not having heard from any one 



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