LIST OF COLOURED PLATES.
| The squirrel sprang here, there, and everywhere | [Frontispiece] |
| The snow was falling so thickly I could scarcely see him | [32] |
| I saw them huddled together on the floor of the cage | [48] |
| Laurence hid himself in the twinkling of an eye | [64] |
| She coquetted with the birds round the drinking pan | [80] |
| Seven furry infants!... The heartlessness of it! | [96] |
