Many a secret she tells me alone,

Which never a bird or a bee has known!”

Quoth the little brown bat: “There is house-room for me,

When the winter comes, in some hollow tree;

Or under barn eaves, near the fragrant hay,

I sleep the dull winter hours away.”


[THE LOST CHARTER]
(Based on an Arabic Legend)

persons

Bounce, a wire-haired Terrier;