Alumnae Recorder . 20 ALUMNsE RECORDER. C0tfbren0 feetter. My Dear Nieces and Nephews : The editors of the Recorder have very kindly told me that I mightwrite you another letter this year if I wish, and of course I did wished. Ihardly know what to tell you this time ; but, on the whole, I dont believeI know anything that you will like better than the story of some singingmice. One evening last fall I had been sitting writing till I was half asleep,and resting a little, just saying to myself that one of the panels of my writ-ing desk did not fit as closely as it should, when I was surprised to
Alumnae Recorder . 20 ALUMNsE RECORDER. C0tfbren0 feetter. My Dear Nieces and Nephews : The editors of the Recorder have very kindly told me that I mightwrite you another letter this year if I wish, and of course I did wished. Ihardly know what to tell you this time ; but, on the whole, I dont believeI know anything that you will like better than the story of some singingmice. One evening last fall I had been sitting writing till I was half asleep,and resting a little, just saying to myself that one of the panels of my writ-ing desk did not fit as closely as it should, when I was surprised to heara faint singing. Still more was I surprised when, on listening for a few. moments, I discovered that the sound came from behind the very panelat which I had been gazing. I took hold of a piece of carving, and gavea little pull. Out came the panel, and what do you suppose was behindit? A secret pigeon hole, or box intended for holding private papers,but now occupied by—Im afraid you wont believe me—a mamma mouseand her three babies ! A few days before I had been opening English walnuts, to stick thekernels on candy, and had thrown the shells into my waste basket. ThereMrs. Mouse had evidently found them, for she was using half of one as acradle. She had put a scrap of cotton in it, and there were the three babymice as snug as could be, with the little mother sitting beside them andsinging them to sleep. She was not rocking the cradle, for it was pretty ALUMNjE RECORDER. 21 full, and it might have tipped over and spilled the babies; besides, she hadprobably heard me reading aloud from a paper, a day or two before, thatmany learned doctors now think rockin
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