"Papa ith going to give very nith prithes," said Katy, taking a very poor way to console her cousins; but she meant well. "We think he ith going to give thome one a canary-bird. Thith morning there hath been a bird thinging--oh, tho thweetly!--in the libr'y where papa hath the pritheth, and will not let uth go in, and Aleck thaid it wath a canary."