45753 Emily Gapp 13
45754 Janet Dunk 14
45755 John Dixon 10
45756 Minnie Pomeroll 12
45757 Ernest Cutting 12
45758 Gertrude Cutting 8
45759 Ada Cutting 7
45760 Geo. C. Hudson 9
45761 Wm. C. Hudson 11
45762 Henrietta Davis 9
45763 Laura J. Davis 8
45764 W. H. Davis 3
45765 Ellen L. Davis 6
45766 Minnie Witten 10
45767 Ellen Fowler 17
45768 Leopold Bland 13
45769 Caroline Hart 11
45770 Wm. T. Bright 17
45771 C. E. Ayscough 15
45772 Maud Hicks 8
45773 Myra Whittle 15

[_Officers and Members are referred to a Special Notice on page 55._]

TRUE STORIES ABOUT PETS, ANECDOTES, &c.

AN AFFECTIONATE PARROT.

DEAR MR. EDITOR,--The little anecdote I am going to tell you is about a
parrot my aunt once had--named, of course, Polly. She had been taught
many funny and amusing speeches, among which she used to say to a canary
that hung in the same room, "Pretty Poll, shabby canary;" and when the
canary sang she would cry out, "Oh, what a noise! what a noise!" My aunt
having been very ill, had not seen Polly for a long time, not being able
to bear her noisy talking; but one day feeling better, she asked to see
her. She was brought to her room, but seemed very quiet. My aunt, who
could not understand why she was so unusually quiet, called to her,
"Polly, come and kiss me!" The poor bird flew to her mistress, laid her
beak on her lips, and died, it is supposed, of her great joy at again
seeing her mistress, after grieving so long at her absence.

EMILY F. WOOLF.
(Aged 15.)
_138, Edgware Road, London, W._

TWO FUNNY CATS.

DEAR MR. EDITOR,--The following little stories are quite true. A friend
of mine told me of a cat of hers which was in the room with its master
(my friend's father), who was asleep sitting on an arm-chair. The cat
wanted to go out of the room, but could not, as the door was shut. So
she went and patted her master on the ear, then walked away to the door
and scratched at it until it was opened for her. She