66 TELEPHONE TEDDY 



drink is water. The dear lady who is so good 

 to him is a cousin of Frances E. Willard, and 

 lives in Churchville, New York, where Miss Wil- 

 lard was born. 



When Mrs. Ross is at her desk writing, 

 Teddy often alights on her shoulder or pecks 

 playfully at her pen as though wishing he 

 could put in a word. When she is sewing, 

 Teddy thinks it great fun to pull the thread 

 out of her needle, for that is the only way he 

 can try to help. 



He flies gayly about three pleasant rooms 

 that open into one another, and sings merrily 

 to the pretty bird he sees in the long mirror 

 back of the mantel, but he likes best of all to 

 help answer a telephone call or send a mes- 

 sage. 



As soon as his good friend goes to the tele- 

 phone, Teddy takes his favorite place on top 

 of her head, and peers wisely into the telephone 

 as he tries to find the speaker at the other end 

 of the line. Sometimes he becomes greatly 

 excited, and while his gay little head bobs 

 briskly about, he will hop quickly back and 

 forth from the speaking tube to the receiver or 

 enjoy a swing on the connecting cord. 



