THE GOAT AND HER KID.

1. Did you ever see a goat? Here is one with a young kid. What is a kid?

a short tail.

2. A goat

has small

horns and

Here is a picture

of a goat and kid. Does not the goat look a little like a sheep? What does the little kid look like?

3. A goat is about as large as a sheep, but it does not have

wool on it like a sheep; it has hair. Do you see that long hair under its chin?

4. Some people milk goats, and like the milk to put into their tea; but I like the milk of the cow.

5. What do you think a goat eats? Does it eat flesh, like a dog? or hay and grass, like a cow? Can you tell by its looks?

6. A goat eats hay and grass, but it likes to eat browse better. Do you know what browse is? A goat likes to browse.

7. Did you ever see a goat? I have a goat, and my goat has a kid. I feed them in a red box.

8. The box has a lid to it, and I once hid the little kid in it. The old goat did not know where it was, and she could not find it.

9. But when I fed the goat, then she found her little kid abed, and fast asleep in the box.

10. O how glad she was! She was so glad she could hardly eat. Were you ever so glad as that?

WILLIE AND HIS PONIES.

1. What nice ponies these are! How they hold up their heads and stick up their tails! They must be gay ponies.

2. Why, Berty, these are not ponies. A pony is a small horse; sometimes a very small horse.

3. Yes, I know a pony is small-as small as a goat, sometimes, isn't it? And does not that make a goat a pony? 4. A goat is not a horse, is

it ?

5. No.

6. Then a goat can not be a pony, for a pony is a small horse. Willie's ponies are not horses. Are they ponies?

7. No, they are not ponies, but he calls them ponies. What are they? are they goats? 8. No.

9. Are they sheep?