her patience with the most audacious indifer- j euce. But why talk about Tom? I could not help believing, nor do 1 ever intend to help be- j lieving, that older heads than Tom's plotted the cruel caging of that bonniC hud. • Tho bird drooped on its perch; but who I caYcd? Nurse vowed it was a shame, and ' showed more kindness than usual to the pri- j