. Jackanapes. Daddy Darwin's dovecot. The story of a short life . equal haste, snatched up the tell-tale heap of flowersand threw them into a disused pigsty, where it wasunlikely that Daddy Darwin would go to look for hispoor pink hollyhocks. SCENE PRIL was a busymonth in the Dove-cot. Young birdswere chipping theegg, parent birdswere feeding theiryoung or relieving each other on the nest, and Jackand his master were constantly occupied and night Daddy Darwin went to bed; but, thoughhe was tired, he did not sleep long. He had solda couple of handsome but quarrelsome pigeons t
. Jackanapes. Daddy Darwin's dovecot. The story of a short life . equal haste, snatched up the tell-tale heap of flowersand threw them into a disused pigsty, where it wasunlikely that Daddy Darwin would go to look for hispoor pink hollyhocks. SCENE PRIL was a busymonth in the Dove-cot. Young birdswere chipping theegg, parent birdswere feeding theiryoung or relieving each other on the nest, and Jackand his master were constantly occupied and night Daddy Darwin went to bed; but, thoughhe was tired, he did not sleep long. He had solda couple of handsome but quarrelsome pigeons toadvantage, and had added their price to the hoard inthe bed-head. This had renewed his old fears, forthe store was becoming very valuable; and he won-dered if it had really escaped Jacks quick observa-tion, or whether the boy knew about it, and, perhaps,talked about it. As he lay and worried himself hefancied he heard sounds without- -the sound of foot-steps and of voices. Then his heart beat till he couldhear nothing else; then he could undoubtedly hearnothing at all; then he certainly heard somethingwhich probably was rats. And so he lay in a cold THE DAY HAS EYES: THE NIGHT HAS EARS. 43 sweat, and pulled the rug over his face, and made uphis
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