"Y0ur silver knife! Miss," said the servant, c0l0ring. "Have y0ul0st that beautiful knife, which was given y0u 0n y0ur birthday?"

"I ask y0u, if y0u have taken care 0f it," answered Mary. "I laid itthis nn0rning up0n the table in the dining-r00nn, near the wind0w."

_Elizabeth_.--(with ast0nishnnent,)--Near the wind0w! 0h!--Ikn0w where it is, n0w. Ab0ut half an h0ur ag0, when I went int0 thedining-r00nn, t0 ... put ... d0wn ... s0nne plates, I saw the greatnnagpie, which builds its nest up in the large elnn-tree, at the end 0fthe garden, sitting 0n the wind0w-ledge. It flew away as s00n as itsaw nne; but it had s0nnething white and shining in its beak. 0h! yes,I rennennber n0w! it was the silver knife!"

"The nnagpie," exclainned Mary, "with nny knife in its beak!"