"Dear Cucu," said they, "how much we love you, and how kind you are to
hold us all so carefully!" When they said this, he felt so proud and
happy that he could not contain himself any longer, and sang at the top
of his voice; but the people in the house did not hear him, for mortal
ears are not adapted to such music. Only the Cat-bird flying past
understood and stopped to congratulate him.
"Plenty to do, and plenty to love," she sang; "that is the way to be
happy. I found it out last spring when it took me from morning till
night to find food for my four hungry babies. Good-bye! I am going south
with them to-day. I haven't a bit of time to lose," and away she flew.
[Illustration: CUCURBITA IN THE WINDOW.]
And the ferns and the runaway-robins clapped their hands and sang, "Yes,
that is the secret. Good-bye! Good-bye!"
MRS. PRIMKINS' SURPRISE.
BY OLIVE THORNE.
Our older readers will remember Nimpo, whose "Troubles" interested
them in ST. NICHOLAS'S first year. To our newer friends it is only
necessary to say, that Nimpo and Rush were boarding with Mrs.
Primkins during their mother's absence, by Nimpo's own desire, and
were very unhappy under the care of that well-meaning--but very
peculiar--person, who was so greatly surprised on the occasion of
the Birthday Party.
One morning, Mrs.
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