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The next day Dick began to rebuild the house He had fetched the stay-sail froreat business cutting the canes and dragging them out in the open Erass, played with the bird that had vanished during the stor after

The child and the bird had grown fast friends; they were friendly enough even at first, but now the bird would soht round his body--at least, as far as the hands would go

It is a rare experience for a htened bird in his hands; next to pressing a woman in his arms, it is the pleasantest tactile sensation he will ever experience, perhaps, in life He will feel a desire to press it to his heart, if he has such a thing

Hannah would press Koko to his little brown stomach, as if in artless admission of where his heart lay

He was an extraordinarily bright and intelligent child He did not pro achieved the word "Dick," he rested content for a long while before advancing further into the labyrinth of language; but though he did not use his tongue, he spoke in a host of other ways With his eyes, that were as bright as Koko's, and full of all sorts of mischief; with his hands and feet and thehis hands before hi nearly all the shades of pleasure; and though he rarely expressed anger, when he did so, he expressed it fully

He was just now passing over the frontier into toyland In civilisation he would no doubt have been the possessor of an india-rubber dog or a woolly lamb, but there were no toys here at all Eht froo, on one of his expeditions, had found it lying half buried in the sand of the beach

He had brought it back nowelse, and they had kept it on the shelf in the house The cyclone had i near by, if in derision; and Hannah, when it was presented to hiust But he would play with flowers or bright shells, or bits of coral, ue patterns with them on the sward