MISS JENNY'S FORLORN ADVENT 



and exacting. It was she who used to plow, 

 scornfully through her food, scattering it in 

 all directions when there was rather a scant 

 proportion of mocking-bird food to the 

 grated carrot. " Put a beggar on horse- 

 back/' remarked a friend as she watched 

 the tramp Jenny's disdainful reception of 

 her breakfast when it was not quite up to 

 the mark. 



It was owing to Jenny's all-devouring 

 greed that her career was in danger of be- 

 ing cut short just as her happiness had be- 

 gun. She and Chupes were in the habit of 

 going on foraging expeditions, and during 

 one of these excursions she discovered a 

 shoe-lace. Happily it had no metal tips, 

 and happily, also, it was attached to a shoe. 

 She began to swallow and succeeded in 

 stowing away all that remained loose at one 

 end. When she met the shoe, she naturally 

 had to stop. She then drew herself back 

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