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contravened. This is all I can say. You 

 will live to see how righteous, benevolent, 

 and promotive of happiness and profit for 

 us and our Masters our colony laws all are. 

 Good-by, my sweet young daughter. Re- 

 member your name. The rest you must 

 find out for yourself, and it will all come 

 readily, since the involuntary promptings of 

 instinct arrive without observation, as our 

 bodies grow without our seeing or knowing 

 it. Touch my tongue. There; once more 

 good-by. Queen, Queen, Queenie, ee-e-e." 

 And she was gone! I did not sorrow. 

 Some way that was not in my nature. I 

 was just full of wonder, and strange ex- 

 pectation about some great destiny! But 

 I then knew that what I thought was 

 "Cheep, Cheep-e," was really "Queen, 

 Queenie," and, being just a young lady, I 

 liked the last best and thought of myself 

 that way ever afterwards. It all seemed a 

 very strange charge to me, but I did not 

 seriously question, and soon fell to having 

 only a slight curiosity about it, for I pre- 



