Now, as I've heard, this little trout
Was young and foolish too,

And so he thought he'd ven-ture out
To see if it was true.

And round about the hook he played,
With many a longing look,
And-" Dear me," to himself he said,
"I'm sure that's not a hook."

"I can but give one little pluck;
Let's see, and so I will."
So on he went, and, lo! it stuck
Quite through his little gill.

And as he faint and fainter grew,
With hol-low voice he cried,
"Dear mother, had I minded you,
I need not thus have died."

Script Exercise.

Write

The names of beasts that

you know.

A BAD boy found a bird's nest on a tree, and taking the eggs out of it, he carried them away.

The birds came back to the nest, and were sorry to find that it had been robbed by some bad boy.

So he took the eggs, and hid them away in the room where he slept, and where he thought no one could find them.

A few weeks after this, he was going by the tree where the nest was made, and he saw the birds flying around it as if they were at home.

He climbed up into the tree, and found that the birds had laid three eggs more. These he did not take, but said to himself that he would wait till the young birds were hatched.

So he watched the nest, and went to see

it very often. At last he found three little birds in the nest; and when they had grown to be so large that they were nearly ready to fly, this cruel boy took them out of their nice warm nest, and carried them home.

One of them died on the way, but two were alive when he came to the house. His father saw him with the birds in his hand, and asked him where he had got them.

He said that he found them on the side of the road, and he was so afraid they would be killed he had brought them home to take care of them, as they had no mother.

This was a sad un-truth, but it shows us that one wick-ed thing leads to others. This boy went on from bad to worse. First he took the eggs, then he took the young birds, and then he told a lie.

He grew up to be a bad man, and it was not strange that he came at last to a bad end.

THE eagle is a very large and fierce bird. It is a bird of prey, and can carry off geese and cranes with ease. It also carries away kids, fawns, lambs, and even little chil-dren, and tears them in pieces as food for its young.

In the north of Scot-land, some years ago, a boy about two years old, was

carried off by an eagle; but the child's mother, having seen where the fierce bird had built its nest, ran to the spot, and, after a great deal of hard work with the eagle, she had the good fortune to re-cov-er her child.

In the country at the foot of the Alps, many years ago, some chil-dren were playing on the green in front of their parents' door. A bird of prey, that had been watching them over head, all at once made a swoop upon a very young child, and carried it off in his talons.

On the very same day, a hunter had hid himself near an eagle's nest, to wait for a shot at the bird as he came home to his ey-ry. After watch-ing for some hours, he at length saw a large bird flying slowly towards the rocks, but seeming twice as large as a common eagle.

The hunter's sur-prise was great when he saw that the bird carried a child in his talons. He heard its cries, and clearly saw its face. He prayed to God, took aim at the bird, and fired. The shot took effect,