up in the air! And now that boy with a blue cap has caught it. Well done, my boy! That is the way to play. Give your whole heart to it, while you are at it, and then when you go to school, try to work as hard, and give your whole heart to that also. 3. Those girls, too, seem very happy, skipping with their ropes, and playing with their balls. Their cheeks look nice and red. And now they are all ready for their school. 4. When school is over, off they run home to tell their mothers of their good work at school, and of their happy games. When it is time for bed, off they go, and are soon fast asleep. They are up early next morning, ready for school and play. Thus may their days pass by, making these boys and girls good, and clever, and strong. QUESTIONS.-What is the best way to make our play bright and happy? How should we work, and how should we play? HELPING FATHER AND MOTHER. no pains, no care plough, a large tool mile, a great many yards 1. Boys and girls should not wish to play all the time they are out of school. They should try and help their father and moth er in the garden, or in the house. 2. Even little boys may do much, for they can pick up stones and pull up weeds in the garden, or sweep away the dead leaves, and tie up the flowers. 3. A girl can help her mother in very many ways, and this will make her glad when mother has much to do and feels tired. 4. She can nurse the baby, or fetch the water, or run to the shop when her mother wants anything. She may also help her to wash the house and sweep the yard. 5. If boys and girls do no work when they are young, they may grow up with bad habits, and so come to want when they are men and women. No one cares to give idle people work, for they take no pains with what they have to do. 6. Most people must do some work, or they will earn no money to buy food and clothes. We see how hard the little bees work to get honey, flying about all day from flower to flower. 7. Birds work, and get moss and sticks and wool for their nests, and food for their young ones. 8. Horses work in the fields, and in the towns. They draw heavy loads, and carry men on their backs many miles. 9. Dogs work as well; they mind the house at night, and help to drive the sheep and the cows from one place to another. CATS an'-gry, in a bad temper an'-y-thing boys and girls try to do? Name some How can girls help their mothers? do when they grow up? Name some AND DOGS. drown, to kill by putting into water 1. Cats and dogs do not like each other. When a dog sees a cat, off he will run, and bark, and try to catch her. Puss puts up her back, and looks very angry, and she will scratch him if she can; or she will run up a tree, where the dog cannot get at her. 2. But if cats and dogs live in the same house, and have grown up with each other, sometimes they become very great friends. 3. I have seen them lying asleep, with the dog's paw round Pussie's neck, as if to take care of her, and keep her from harm. They will eat from the same plate and seem like brother and sister. 4. Let me tell a little story I have read about a cat and a dog that lived in the same house. The dog The dog was called Bob: he had never liked cats, and would not have much to do with the cat in the same house. The cat lived mostly in the barn, to keep the rats from the hens and chickens. 5. Puss had some kittens, and the man, thinking there would be too many to keep, took three of them to drown. He did this in a cruel way, just tossing them into the pond, where they might sink or swim. 6. Bob was very happy on the hearth-rug in the room, when in rushed poor Puss, looking quite wild, and dripping with wet mud. She went to the dog, and looked at him very hard. The dog jumped up and ran out with her to the yard. |