1. Do you know what a pet lamb is? Jenny has a pet lamb. Here is a picture of it. 2. Jenny lives in a city, where lambs are not seen very often, and she wants all her little friends to see her lamb, and to know how glad she is. 3. So, when she met Mary this morning, she told her about her lamb, and Mary went to see it. Shall I tell you what the girls said? 4. Jenny had not seen Mary for a long time, but the first thing she said to her was, 5. O Mary! I have a little lamb! a little pet lamb! Won't you go and see it? 6. M.-Yes, I should like to, if mamma will let me. is it? Where 7. J.-It is in the yard up at our house. I hope your mam ma will let you go. It is such a nice little lamb! I do want you to see it. 8. M.-I will run right into the house and ask mamma. O, how glad I am! Mamma says I may go. 9. Why, Jenny! how black it is! I thought lambs were white. 10. J.-No; not always. Most lambs are white; but isn't this a real black one? 11. M.—Why, it is as black as jet. Where did you get it? 12. J.—Uncle Ralph gave it to me. When he found it in the lot, it was so wet and cold it could not go. 13. M.-But how it can run and jump now! 14. J.-And yet it is so gentle I can call it up to me. See, now,-Topsy! Topsy! come to me. Do you see, Mary, it is coming right up to me. 15. M.-How did you make it so gentle? 16. J.—0, I would feed it, and pat it, and put my face on it, and talk gently to it. 17. M.-But how did it know what you said? 18. J.-I do not know that it did, yet it would act as if it did. 19. M.-O, I see now how it was! You were good to |