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In a moment Teddy had unlocked the door they had passed through, and it had swung to behind them. Up the stairs they ran, and there they were standing in the sunlight near the rain-butt. "I am free! I am free!" cried the Bird-maiden, joyously. "Oh! thank you, little boy. And now for home."
As he walked slowly up the path swinging his shovel by the handle, he noticed that there was a rat-hole just back of the rain-butt, and he thought what fun it would be to dig it out, so he put the cage down on the ground and set to work with his shovel. The earth broke away from the rat-hole in great clods, and he found it so easy to dig that very soon he had made quite a big hole.
"Who brought the message?" asked the Doctor, taking off his spectacles and laying down his book. "A swallow," said Chee-Chee. "She is outside on the rain-butt." "Bring her in by the fire," said the Doctor. "She must be perished with the cold. The swallows flew South six weeks ago!"
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