case and its contents were hidden away, and no word was spoken of their existence.

I waited a few days to see if the elders would relent, but to no purpose. The bird *till pined on its perch. No kindly hand seemed likely to open the cage door aud let it fly. There sat Teecie, day alter day, in her nursery chair, hemming aprons for nurse, or darning the children's stockings, looking longingly out of