10. No.

11. What do you think they are? Look at the picture, and see if you can tell.

12. They are dogs!

13. Yes; Willie's ponies are dogs; they are large black dogs.

14. But they are not all black. There is some white on them.

15. One of them has a white lip, and the tip of one ear is white. This one he calls QUIT. 16. What a funny name! QUIT!

17. The other he calls QUICK. He has a white spot on one hip, and the end of his tail is white.

18. Quit and Quick! Who

ever heard of such funny names for dogs! Quit and Quick! 19. Now, Quick, you quit quick, will you! O, ho! how funny it is!

20. And Willie has a little house for his dogs.

the house his barn.

He calls

21. At night he puts the dogs into this barn, and feeds them in a box, as he would feed a horse. 22. But they do not eat hay

and corn like a horse. Dogs can not eat hay. Do you know

what a dog eats?

23. Willie has a little harness

He

and wagon for his dogs. harnesses them to the wagon,

and then gets in and rides.

24. He has lines to drive his 'ponies,' and he drives them as we do horses. And he drives them very fast, too, sometimes.

25. But his wagon will not break, nor will his harness rip, for they are very strong.

26. Willie lets them go as fast as they please; and they can go almost as fast as a horse

can run.

27. That is a little too fast for Willie to ride. Don't you think so?

let us run out into the lot and see the sheep and lambs. How pretty they do look on a bright summer morning!

3. They get up early, and run and jump about, and seem to have real fun.

4. Come! get out of your cot; and let us go and run with them before the sun is so hot.

5. You know father says

Early to bed and early to rise,

Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

6. If we go soon, may be we can kill a fox. Father said there was one in the lot yesterday morning, and that it killed one of the little lambs.

7. But we must be off soon,