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Show THE LATEST THING IN PETS. ' . One ofihe oddest pet-th.tt ever ex-; -isteu belong to a liu.,-h I iu Seventy-1 t street. A v s,llir iih t u-r al the'-grtle the'-grtle jasi summer with what she supposed sup-posed was a lunch box under her arm. Ihdy s suprisu a tmal-e-like he common md Ulrle Somuone had brutlu'tho crcituro home ye.tr or so l.trorc, and let it loose m Ihe yardeii. When the children began to pi ty there, out from its hole came the turtle, and singling out thia child gave evidence of intelligence beyoud ' belief. The turtle was called Pedro, and the little gir h.,d but to call that name two or three tunes at tho hack dour to see the old box waddling up Irom the bottom ot the garden directly. di-rectly. Any one else approaching or attempting familiarities, Ihe clumsy leet were drawn promptly in, and tho wise old head retired within its shell! and no sign of life would l'edro give I But let the child take it, the claws closed round one ol her fingers, and I the head, run out lo its fullest exteot ol neck, would he wagged against her with every token of love a turtle could i give. Theie came a time duriii" the summor when the little mistress was sick. The mother, silting in thodusk, thought she saw a dark object moving in the room, and shortly alter, hcario" a pumping on the stairs, wont niit and found it was l'edro returning to his hole ,n the yard. Each day lor weeks, with tho opening open-ing of the outside, door, in would walk Pedro. The girl generally found him waiting on the steps. He would go to the stairs, stand upright in the cowicr, and setting his bttie feet into the stair above, pull himself up. This operation he would repeat till he reached the landing. It the door into the sick child's room was closed, be waited patientlv to be allowed to cuter. When taken up and laid beside its unstress it made no effort to move, but lay for hours, with its solemn head wagging from side to side. At niglitit waddled cfi'to the stairs, and then the racket commenced, as it fell ofl each Btep in clumsy fashion, sounding like that famous clock in the Ingoldsby legends that went hopping hop-ping after Mr. Ap. Jones New York ArcadUm, |