You want fifteen dollars very much
to buy something for it. I am sure you won't be offended with an old
friend for supplying you the means to get this something.
ADA MONTAGUE.
"Just the thing for my stationary tank for the goldfish," exclaimed
Carl. "I've wanted it for a long time;--it isn't good to keep them in
globes; but how in the world did she find out? I've never told any one."
Mrs. Morris smiled, and said, "Barry must have told her," as she took
the money from Carl to put away for him.
Mrs. Montague got to be very fond of her new pet. She took care of him
herself, and I have heard her tell Mrs. Morris most wonderful stories
about him--stories so wonderful that I should say they were not true if
I did not how intelligent dumb creatures get to be under kind treatment.
She only kept him in his cage at night, and when she began looking for
him at bedtime to put him there, he always hid himself. She would search
a short time, and then sit down, and he always came out of his
hiding-place, chirping in a saucy way to make her look at him.
She said that he seemed to take delight in teasing her. Once when he was
in the drawing-room with her, she was called away to speak to some one
at the telephone.
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