Laura said she was sure that the dead partridge 

 was one of the little ones that Dorcas had hatched, 

 and that when it found itself in danger it had 

 remembered them, and had come back to them for 

 help. 



She buried it in a box under the rosebushes 

 and put up a headstone. " That's so its mate will 

 know whereto find it," she said, but the mate never 

 came to look. 



LIMPETY 



It seems a curious name for a cat, — Limpety ; 

 I suppose they called' me that because I was lame 

 and limped. 



It happened — my getting lame I mean — when I 

 was quite a kitten. The way of it was that I 

 caught my foot in a rabbit trap when I was cross- 

 ing a field. Oh, how scared I was when I found 

 myself caught, and how I mewed and mewed ! 



After a while I heard some people coming, — 

 boys, and they had dogs with them. Then I tore 

 my foot loose and ran as fast as I could through 

 the tall grass, and so on into a thick wood. There 

 I climbed a tree. 



