StNicholas [serial] . er forgotten itand show no sign of forgettingso long as swans shall sail thismoat. How have these birds of to-day learned their lesson ? I donot know, unless each swanmother has taught it to her ba-bies, advising them always toring the bell when they needfood. Swans are said to live onas long as fifty years, so it isnot improbable that some oneof this little group is reallymuch older than it looks andit may even have been one ofMiss Edens own birds. It is an interesting andamusing sight to watch thelittle procession on a summerday. Sometimes you have towait a long while t
StNicholas [serial] . er forgotten itand show no sign of forgettingso long as swans shall sail thismoat. How have these birds of to-day learned their lesson ? I donot know, unless each swanmother has taught it to her ba-bies, advising them always toring the bell when they needfood. Swans are said to live onas long as fifty years, so it isnot improbable that some oneof this little group is reallymuch older than it looks andit may even have been one ofMiss Edens own birds. It is an interesting andamusing sight to watch thelittle procession on a summerday. Sometimes you have towait a long while to see thebell rung. The lodge-keeperswife told me that since theblack swans had arrived thedemands were some days sofrequent that she was obligedto take in the string, to thegreat disgust of the little crea-tures ; and that they ate soravenously that they made aheavy demand on her store ofbread (usually supplied from the palace table).The picture shows the old swan ringing thebell and his family waiting for the BY MELVILLE F. FERGUSON Marmaduke Merrimac Mason was, you mustunderstand, several persons all rolled into one—nodoubt that was why so many things were all thetime happening to him He was, to begin with,an angel child His mother said so, and sheknew. He was also a perfect little fiend. Forthis we have the authority of his nurse, who wasintimately acquainted with him, and who nevertold a fib. He was gentle and affectionate—sosaid his grandmother, a famous judge of was a bouncer, and could hold his own withany youngster of his size in the neighborhood,his father declared Now, there were days when one side of Mar-madukes character stuck out so plainly that youcould nt see the other sides at all, and this wasone of them The side the nurse usually sawwas on top, absurd as it may seem for a side tooccupy that position. Even his mother admittedthat he must have climbed out of bed wrong footfirst. The fact is that Marmaduke was simply suffer-ing from an attack
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