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“ But I think I hear the larger girl, who is standing up, say to the sitters, "Children, don't you know better than to sit there on the damp earth? You will every one of you catch a cold. Get up this instant." ”

“ After he has been standing in the barn for two or three days, he acts like a wild creature when he is taken out, and will whisk round corners, and scamper up and down the hill, as if he really meant to tear every thing to pieces. ”

“ He is very fond of my aunt, who usually drives him; and, when she goes to ride, he always expects her to give him something good,—an apple, or a crust, or a lump of sugar. If she has nothing for him, he will grab the corner of her veil, or the ribbons on her hat, and chew them, to teach [120] her not to forget him next time; and he will lap her face and hands, like a dog. ”

“ The boys used to get long poles, with which they would beat off the nuts. Sometimes they would climb the trees, and shake or beat off such nuts as they could not reach from below. And we girls used to help pick them up, and put them into baskets.
Some years chestnuts are very scarce. I remember one year there was only one tree that had any nuts on; and we could not reach them: not even a man could climb it.
One day, Henry, who was a very kind man, said, "Perhaps we will cut that tree down: it will make good rails, and then you children can get all the nuts." ”

“ These little alligators grow to be huge creatures, sometimes more than twenty feet long. They live in the creeks and little rivers that run into the St. John's. They rarely go very far from the shore. They live partly on land and partly in the water. ”

“ Only smile on your lesson, 'twill smile upon you;
How glibly the words will then jump into view!
Each word to its place all the others will chase,
Till you'll wonder to find how well you can do.
If you cry, you will make yourself stupid or blind,
And then not an answer will come to your mind;
But cheer up your heart, and you'll soon have your part,
For all things grow easy when hearts are inclined.
C.
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EMMA AND HER DOLL.
Emma has placed her doll Flora against the pillow. ”

“ John's River, and up some of the small streams, where alligators may be found.
We went some thirty miles towards the south, and then turned into a small river, where the scenery on both sides resembled that given in the picture. Cypress-swamps and high trees overgrown with moss everywhere met our view. On the banks, and generally on fallen logs, might be seen alligators basking in the sun.
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THE SPIDER AND HER FAMILY.
Every child has seen spiders in plenty, spinning their webs in some corner ”

“ So, when Polly heard Tony's kind words, she flew down to the cross-bar, and, when he held out his hand, she lighted on it, and Tony slid with her down the post to the ground.
"Well done, my lad," said the policeman. He went with Tony, carrying the bird, to No. 10, Maiden Place; and Miss Dorothy was so much pleased that she gave Tony three dollars instead of two. On his way home he bought that copy Of Virgil.
Dora Burnside.
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FEEDING THE DUCKS.
A mild summer day, and one, two, three, four children sitting on the ground by the pond, and feeding the ducks! ”

“ For five weeks or more his adopted mother supplies him with food.
In the picture a thrush is represented as feeding a young cuckoo, that has probably driven off all the thrush's own children.
Dora Burnside. ”

“ That is what the larger girl ought to say; for many children take bad colds by sitting on the grass. The other day, as I went through the Central Park in New York, I saw a maid in charge of three children, one of them an infant, and she was letting them lie at full-length on the grass. ”