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"He came back, I see," said Louise thoughtfully.
"That's just it!" cried Cap'n Abe, shaking his head till the tarpaulin
fell off and he forgot to pick it up. "That's just it. He come back of
his own self. I didn't try to ketch him. When it grew on toward sundown
an' the air got kinder chill, I didn't hear Jerry singin' no more. I'd
seen him, off'n on, flittin' 'bout the yard all day. When I come in here
to light the hangin'-lamp cal'latin' to make supper, I looked over there
at the window. I'd shut it. There was Jerry on the window sill, humped
all up like an old woman with the tisic."
"The poor thing!" was Lou's sympathetic cry.
"Yes," said Cap'n Abe, nodding. "He warn't no more fit to be let loose
than nothin' 'tall. And I wonder if _I_ be," added the storekeeper.
"I've been caged quite a spell how.
"But now tell me, Niece Louise," he added with latent curiosity, "how did
you find your way here?"
"Father says--'Daddy-professor,' you know is what I call him. He says if
we had not always been traveling when I was not at school, I should have
known you long ago.


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