MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



tiful snowy coat, with its occasional con- 

 trasting black markings intensifying the 

 whiteness, is filled with some foreign sub- 

 stance; great yellow eyes not his own look 

 from his noble head; his black claws, over 

 which the feathers fall like an avalanche, 

 grasp an artificial bar, and he lives under a 

 glass case! 



But let us hope that tHe spirit that ani- 

 mated him, call it what you will, is soaring 

 joyously through icy elysian fields, revel- 

 ling in some Arctic paradise of birds! 



And now let me tell you more of the lit- 

 tle being whose coming to us was one of 

 the results of the snowy owl's visit. He 

 evidently did not care to lose our friend- 

 ship, even when the presence of the enemy 

 no longer drove him to us. True, he picked 

 up his bed and bedding and started house- 

 keeping in parts unknown as soon as the 

 price was removed from his head; but from 

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