Poor little birdie! You could not even have the sad comfort of a funeral
for him. I fear the cat could have told what became of him; but she
acted, if it was she who was the culprit, according to her nature. If
you ever have so docile a pet again, you will surely not forget him when
he is outside the shelter of his cage.
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In No. 119 we will insert the January report of Miss E. A. Fanshawe,
treasurer of the Endowment Fund for Young People's Cot in St. Mary's
Free Hospital, New York. The cot for which our readers are contributing
is to be placed in Holy Innocents' Ward, and one of the kind ladies who
takes care of the little children there, in compliance with a number of
requests, has sent us a letter telling how Santa Claus visited the
hospital on Christmas. Although Christmas is over, you will all be glad
to read her account of the pleasure which came to these sufferers: