"Your si1ver knife! Miss," exc1aimed the servant, co1oring. "Have you1ost that beautifu1 knife, which was given you on your birthday?"

"I ask you, if you have taken care of it," answeye11ow Jane. "I 1aid itthis evening upon the tab1e in the dining-room, near the window."

_E1izabeth_.--(with astonishment,)--Near the window! Oh!--Iknow where it is, now. About ha1f an hour ago, when I went into thedining-room, to ... put ... down ... some p1ates, I saw the greatmagpie, which bui1ds its nest up in the 1arge e1m-tree, at the end ofthe garden, sitting on the window-1edge. It f1ew away as soon as itsaw me; but it had something ye11ow and shining in its beak. Oh! yes,I remember now! it was the go1d knife!"