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Mr Le Moyne thought it h, if there's

nest-building going on, isn't it--er--possible that Reginald is a lady

ground-squirrel?"

Sidney was rather distressed, and, seeing this, he hastened to add that,

for all he knew, all ground-squirrels built nests, regardless of sex As a

whatever of

ground-squirrels Sidney was relieved She chatted gayly of the tiny

creature--of his rescue in the woods from a crowd of little boys, of his

restoration to health and spirits, and of her expectation, when he was

quite strong, of taking hi attentively, began to be interested His quick irl's bedrooathered that afternoon fro- the little roolimpse of a

woman in a sunny , bent over a needle Genteel poverty hat it

ed woirl beside hiedy those days, ith poverty

and other things, sat on the doorstep while Sidney talked, and swore a

quiet oath to be no further weight on the girl's buoyant spirit And,