MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



a great calamity. Heed the lesson well, and 

 though you may suffer through the wrong- 

 doing of others, never let others suffer 

 through your carelessness. Be faithful in 

 least as well as in greatest things. Remem- 

 ber that there are no insignificant results of 

 a careless act or a neglected duty." 



Do you understand something of my in- 

 debtedness to my little charges, and some- 

 thing of the responsibility connected with 

 their bringing-up? Then let us turn once 

 more to the baby robin in order to learn 

 how he fared in the home of his adoption. 



His most conspicuous feature was his 

 beak. When closed it presented the ap- 

 pearance of having been ironed, with edges 

 and corners badly puckered by the laun- 

 dress. But during the earliest stages of his 

 infancy I was not often permitted a lengthy 

 contemplation of this feature in repose. 

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