Characters
- Weeps: An owl being hit with rocks in an oil barrel before being rescued by Billy
- Wol: An owl found under a bush after a storm
- Billy: The boy who adopts Wol and Weeps
- Bruce and Murray: Billy's friends
- Mr. Miller: A teacher who wants to get pictures of owls in a tree
- Ophelia: The former maid of Billy's family
- Fifi: Billy's French teacher
- Mutt: Billy's dog
- Rex: Bruce's dog
- Mom: Billy's mother
- Dad: Billy's father
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“The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”
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