COUSIN CATHERINE’S SERVANTS. 63

“ But that is only two of your paints,” said Edith. ‘Who
made all the rest?”

“It would take too long to tell. Some are made of plants,
some of stones,” said Cousin Catherine. ‘But I am much
obliged to piggy and all the other animals and plants that give
me my paints and brushes, for I should be very dull without
them. I should not know how to fill up my time.”

“Couldn't you play on the piano?”

“Oh, yes; but not unless my servants were good enough
to help me. I can play on the violin too, that is, I could once.
But I could have no music from either, if an elephant, a horse,
and a silkworm did not do something towards it.”

“Can't you play on the piano without an elephant?” said
Edith, and she laughed merrily. ‘Oh, Cousin Catherine, how
funny that is!”

“See, here in this other picture are the servants that help
about music.”

“There are two elephants in the front,” said Edith; “what
are they doing? And a silk-
worm up there—and, oh, what
a long tail that horse has got!”

“When I wasa girl I saw
elephants at work like that in
India,” said Cousin Catherine, .
“They were picking up logs
of wood. They did it so well,
andworked so cleverly—lifting
the logs with their trunks, and
stacking them neatly. Then
as soon as the pile became too tall, so that both elephants together
could not lift up the logs high enough to put them on the top,
they placed two of the largest logs side by side to lean against