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Why, that pig has but two legs, and that duck has four!

Well, I can rub out two of the duck's legs, and give them to the pig.

There, now I will draw a man, with a whip in his hand. The man has come to put the pig in the pen.

Why, the man is not as tall as the pig! O then, I must rub them all out, for they are not well done.

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SHEEP SHEARING.

We have all seen the pretty sheep and lambs at play in the green fields on a fine sunny day, with their warm coats of wool on their backs. Every year the sheep are wash'd in a clear pool of water till they are quite clean. When the wool is dry, men cut it off with shears.

The sheep are very glad to get rid of this wool, as it is much too warm for them in the hot summer days. The farmer is glad also, for he can sell the wool. Thus you see, both the farmer and the sheep are pleased when shearing time comes.

When the wool is sold, it is made into many useful things for us to wear and use.

THE SHEEP.

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La-zy sheep, pray tell me why,
In the pleas-ant fields you lie,
Eat-ing grass and dai-sies white,
From the morn-ing till the night?
Every thing can some thing do,
But what kind of use are you?

(SHEEP)

True, it seems a pleasant thing,
Nip-ping dai-sies in the spring;
But O, how many days I pass
On the cold and dewy grass!
Or I get my din-ner where
All the ground is brown and bare.
Then the farm-er comes at last,
When the mer-ry spring is past,
Cuts my wool-ly coat away,
For your clothes in win-try day.
Little mas-ter, this is why
In the pleas-ant fields I lie.

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How useful hay is in the winter, when the snow is on the ground, and the days are so short and cold, that no grass will grow ! I will tell you how hay is made.

You have all seen the pretty green grass

It grows high and gets ripe in the sunny months of May and June. When the grass is ripe, mowers are sent into the fields and meadows. They cut the grass down with the scythe.

The grass is then left for a day or two, that the sun may dry it. Then men, women, boys, and girls, go into the fields with rakes and forks, and throw it about, or, as they call it, "make the hay."

After the hay is made, and is quite dry, it is put on wagons and carried to a spot, near the out-houses, called a barton, and there piled into a stack. It is then thatched and left till winter comes. Then the farmer cuts out the hay for his cows and horses.

It is pleasant to be in the fields at haymaking. The smell of the hay is delicious, is it not?

If the season is very wet, sometimes the hay is spoil'd. Make hay while the sun shines, is a rule we ought always to follow.

THE GOLDEN RULE.

Be to others kind and true,
As you'd have others be to you.

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spring

THE SEASONS.

summer autumn

The buds begin to sprout in spring,

winter

The grass to grow, the birds to sing;
Then, sum-mer comes with per-fumed hand,
And covers with gay flowers, the land;
Next, Au-tumn, with the gold-en hair,
Scat-t'ring bounties every where;
Last, Winter follows in the train,
And sends them all to bed again.

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HEN-NY-PEN-NY, COCK-Y-LOCK-Y, DUCK-YDAD-DLES, GOOS-Y-POOS-Y, AND TURKEY-LURK-Y.*

One fine sum-mer morning a Hen was picking peas in a farm-yard under a pea-stack, and a pea fell on her head with an aw-ful thump! So she thought the sky was fall-ing. Well, off she set, to tell the King the sky was fall.ing.

She gaed, and she gaed, and she gaed, and she met a Cock. And the Cock said,

*This story, the Editor understands, has everywhere proved so attractive to children, that he transfers it from the Graduated Series.'

"Where are you going to to-day, Hennypenny?"

And she said,

"Oh, Cocky-locky, the sky is falling, and I am going to tell the King."

And Cocky-locky said,

"I will go with you, Henny-penny." So Cocky-locky, and Henny-penny

they

gaed, and they gaed, and they gaed till they met a Duck. And the Duck said,

"Where are you going to-day, Cocky-locky and Henny-penny?

And they said,

"Oh, Ducky-daddles, the sky is falling, and we are going to tell the King."

And Ducky-daddles said,

"I will go with you, Cocky-locky and Henny-penny."

So Ducky-daddles, and Cocky-locky, and Henny-penny-they gaed, and they gaed, and they gaed till they met a Goose. So the Goose said,

"Where are you going to-day, Duckydaddles, and Cocky-locky, and Henny-penny? And they said,

"Oh, Goosy-poosy, the sky is falling, and we are going to tell the King." And Goosy-poosy said,

"I will go with you, Ducky-daddles, Cockylocky, and Henny-penny."

So Goosy-poosy, and Ducky-daddles, and

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