6. With no thought of doing any good, but for mere sport, they put a bell on its neck and let it go.

7. The rat ran to join its friends; but the strange sound of the bell made them afraid, and they ran off, some this way, and some that, as you see in the picture.

8. Our young rat at once knew the cause of their flight, and, full of the joke, it ran after them, and rang the bell as loud as it could.

9. And thus it drove them from hole to hole, and from room to room, till at last they all ran out of the house.

10. The young rat now had the music and the house all to itself. For a while it was real sport to run around, and ring the bell, and eat of all the good things it could find. But at last it got tired of living alone.

11. The bell, which had pleased it so much, was now its great trouble; for, in spite of all its efforts, it could not get near a single rat.

12. Our rat then tried to get the bell off. It pulled at the bell with its fore feet, till it wore the skin off its neck. But all in vain. The rat was tired and sick.

13. It cared no more for rich

food and sport; and, one day, as sadly and slowly it crept from room to room, it came in the way of puss, who cleared the house of its last rat, and freed the rat of its grief and life in a moment.

1. There is a child-a boy or girl,

I'm sorry

it is true

Who doesn't mind when spoken to;

Is it you? It can't be you!

2. I know a child-a boy or girl,
I'm loth to say I do-

Who struck a little playmate child:

I hope that wasn't

you.

3. I know a child-a boy or girl,
I hope that such are few-
Who told a lie—yes, told a lie!
It cannot be 'twas you!

4. There is a boy-I know a boy,
I cannot love him, though-
Who robs the little birdie's nest:
That bad boy can't be you.

5. A girl there is a girl I know,
And I could love her, too,

But that she is so proud and vain:
That surely isn't you!

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JOHNNY AND THE BLUE MARBLE.

1. John. Mother, what verse in the Bible do you think it best for a little boy to learn?

2. Mother. Thou God seest me, is a very good one. Little boys are apt to do things when alone that they ought not to, for they think no one will know it.

3. John.-Does God look into boys' pockets?

4. Mother.-Yes.

5. John. I wish God could speak as well as see. But He can't can He, mother?