FIFTEEN] HAPPY ANIMALS 
Ohio, who had this sense of kinship for everything 
about him. “He had only to throw himself down 
upon the lawn in front of his home, and the little 
creatures of the air and the shy squirrels would for- 
get their timidity and come near to him. Little 
birds would gradually close in upon him, until they 
stood on his hands. He had a caressing tone 
which proved irresistible to them, and if they were 
speeding after a bug in another direction, they 
would turn at his call and go to him.” He had a 
pet hen which was entirely given up to this senti- 
ment of affection. He would say, “Come here, 
Topsy,” and the fluffy hen would leave her com- 
panions and gotohim. ‘ Nowsing for us, Topsy!” 
he would say, and the foolish-looking creature 
would stand, and make her unmusical laying song, 
till he told her to stop. ‘“‘ Come into the house with 
me, Topsy! and sing to my friends in there.” 
Thereupon she allowed herself to be set upon a 
stool, where she sung her guttural sang to the de- 
light of the household. The same authority tells 
us that she knew another lad, in California, with 
rouch the same power. One day his mother saw, 
with consternation, fourteen strange cats at his 
heels who had never before seen him, but were 
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