So Peepy took it into the grove, and set it free; and Bella lighted on a bough, and sang the sweetest song you ever heard. It then flew singing round Peepy's head, as if to say, "Thank you! thank you a thousand times, you dear little girl!" If Bella's song could have been translated into words, I think they would have been these:-- "Darling little Peepy, When you're sad or sleepy, I will come and sing you a merry, merry song: So do not be grieving At this tender leaving; I shall not forget you, dear, for Oh! love is strong." Peepy went home rather sad with her empty cage. But what was her joy the next day, to see Bella on the window-sill! She opened the window, Bella flew in, and they had a nice frolic. Then, when the dinner-bell rang, the little bird flew off. Peepy was happy to think it had not forgotten her. IDA FAY. [Illustration: Song of the Monkey] SONG OF THE MONKEY. [Illustration: Music] Words by MARIAN DOUGLAS. Music by T. CRAMPTON. My master grinds an organ, And holds me by a chain; And when the money I pick up, You laugh and shout again; But though I dance and caper, Still I feel at heart forlorn I wish I were in monkey-land, The place where I was born; I wish I were in monkey-land, The place where I was born. 2 There cocoanuts are growing Around the palm-tree's crown: I used to climb and pick them off, And hear them--crack!--come down. There all day long the purple figs Are falling, I declare: How pleasant 'tis in monkey-land! Oh, would that I were there! 3 On some tall tree's top branches The fleecy clouds would sail Just over me: I wish that I Were swinging by my tail! I'd swing and swing so merrily, How happy I would be! But oh! a travelling monkey's life Is very hard for me. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: Obvious punctuation errors repaired. This issue was part of an omnibus. The original text for this issue did not include a title page or table of contents. This was taken from the July issue with the "No." added. The original table of contents covered the second half of 1873. The remaining text of the table of contents can be found in the rest of the year's issues.