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TRAITS OF CHARACTER.

were stuck between the wires, and again Mimi and Josephine were good friends.

"Kind little creature," said Josephine to herself, "he loves me as much as ever-he forgets all my unkindness to him !" Mimi was again as happy as he could be.

About a month after this, it happened that Mr. and Mrs. Gourlay were obliged to take a distant journey into the country.

" Josephine," said they both to her, as they stepped into their chaise, " remember Mimi-we trust him to your care."

Josephine promised to remember him, and hardly were her parents gone than she ran to supply the cage with everything that the bird could want.

At the end of eight days, she thought she should like to have some of her young friends to come and drink tea with her; and she had a merry little party. They played at blind-man's buff, at puss in the corner, and hunt the slipper, and at last they danced. When her young friends left her, Josephine went to bed quite tired.

The next morning she awoke, thinking of the pleasure of the evening before; and while she was dressing, she asked the nurse to go and invite her young friends to come again directly after breakfast. But the nurse refused to go so early. It would be quite early enough, she said, if they came in the afternoon.

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