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FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
hidden behind a pine-trunk, and they all
proceeded without fear. When everybody had
entered the beautifully lit-up church, I took a
circuit, not to frighten the horses, who might
sniff me in the wind, and then I seated myself
in a neighbouring copse, and looked at the
lights, which mean at this season bright love to
all. When the singing began I heard a deep
voice mingling in with it, stronger than all the
others put together. Sometimes this voice
would hum or sing loud strains by itself, and
then, as it were, the people’s voices would pour
into it like a flood, and it sounded so beautiful
and strong that I think it must have been
heard above in the heavens. I wonder what
it was ? When the dawn lighted the
wanderers home I slunk into the wood, happy
at having witnessed so much of Christmas
festivities."
" But how came you to be captured ?" I asked.
" Suppose he went and popped the question
to Anna, and was fairly caught," said the
Yankee bear with an inimitable twang.
All the bears laughed at his jest, even
Nahley himself.
" I did not go near the homestead again for
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