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looked up and saw the old white cow eating up his Jack-o'-lantern.

20. Rollo picked up a stick and ran after the cow, shouting out, "Wheh there! wheh!" as loud and fiercely as he could.

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21. The cow seized another large mouthful and ran off, shaking her horns and brandishing her tail.

22. "The ugly old cow!" said Rollo, taking up the remains of the pumpkin. "My Jack-o'lantern is all spoiled. I will get some stones and stone her."

23. "Stone her! Stone what?" replied Jonas,

coolly. "Stone the cow?" "Yes, of course, that ugly old cow."

24. "Why, what is the cow to blame for ?" said Jonas. "To blame! Why, she has been eating up my Jack-o'-lantern."

25. "I do not think the cow is to blame," said Jonas; "but somebody is to blame, and I can tell you who. If you stone anybody, you had better stone him. The person to blame is the boy that left the Jack-o'-lantern on the log, and thus let the cow get at it."

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26. "I think," added he, with a laugh, "that my old schoolmaster had known of this case, he would have made a good story out of it to illustrate his Two RULES."

XIV.-ISAAC HOPPER AND HIS LAMB.

ISAAC HOPPER had a lamb whose horns

were crooked and had a tendency to turn in. His father had given it to him for his own, on condition that he should keep the horns carefully filed, so that they should not hurt the animal. He had a small file on purpose, and took such excellent care of his pet that it soon became very much attached to him, and trotted about after him like a dog.

2. When he was about five or six years old, British soldiers came into the neighborhood to seize provisions for the army, according to their custom during our Revolutionary War. They tied the feet of the tame lamb and threw it into the cart with the other sheep and lambs. Isaac came up to them in season to witness this operation, and his heart swelled with indignation.

3. He sprang into the cart, exclaiming, "That's my lamb, and you sha'n't have it." The men tried to push him aside, but he pulled out a rusty jackknife and cut the rope that bound the poor lamb.

4. A British officer rode up, and seeing a little boy struggling so resolutely with the soldiers, he inquired what was the matter. "They 've stolen my lamb!" exclaimed Isaac; "and they sha'n't have it. It's my lamb!"

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5. "Is it your lamb, my brave little fellow?" said the officer. Well, they sha'n't have it. You'll make a fine soldier one of these days." So Isaac lifted his lamb from the cart and trudged off victorious.

QUESTIONS.

Did you ever see a lamb? Which should you like best for a pet, -a lamb, a dog, or a kitten? Did you ever see a file? What is a file for? What use did Isaac make of his file? Did the soldiers get Isaac's lamb away from him? What did Isaac do to prevent them? What did the officer mean by "brave little fellow"? Would you rather be a brave little fellow, or a coward?

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XV. THE LOCOMOTIVE.

I.

HE locomotive is a steed

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Most wonderful to view;

He runs on wheels instead of legs,
His joints all turn on iron pegs,
His road is iren, too.

II.

To draw along his monstrous train
Is a prodigious toil;

They fire him up to make him go,

With sticks of wood thrown in below,

And water there to boil.

III.

"Choo-choo!" he says; "choo-choo! choo-choo! Get off the track, you fellows, you,

Or else I'll cut you right in two."

IV.

He's managed by an engineer

Who knows just how to treat him; He makes him stop, he makes him go Backward and forward, to and fro,

And never has to beat him.

V.

He does not fancy tunnels much,
Nor curves upon the line,

But loves to run with might and main
Across a wide extended plain,

Or down a long incline.

VI.

"Choo-choo!" he says; "choo-choo! choo-choo!
Get off the track, you fellows, you,
Or else I'll cut you right in two."

VII.

When he comes near a crossing road,
He goes not quite so fast,
And rings a bell, that all who hear
May know the locomotive's near,
And wait till he has passed.

VIII.

Thus the great trundler travels on
His course from day to day:
Look out for him when he's in view;
The monster can't look out for you;
All he can say is, "Choo-choo-choo!"
When thundering on his way.

XVI. THE MILKY WAY.

IF you go out of doors some fine, bright night, and look up at the sky, you will see, stretching right across the heavens, something that looks very much like a thin, long, narrow cloud. It is called "the milky way."

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