t both of them. You know
you don't. Find the boy who hadn't any Christmas presents, and give one
of the wagons to him. Let that wooden soldier go with it; for what do
you want of a soldier, when you have a gun of your own?

"And what if you should give away something that you do want very much;
why, it wouldn't hurt you a bit: you would feel all the better for it.
Just try now, Tom, and see if you wouldn't."

Perhaps the little boy would take my advice; and perhaps he wouldn't,
but, if he should, I'm sure he would make a much more cheerful picture
than he does now.

UNCLE SAM.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

THE DOG AND THE SHADOW.

A DOG, crossing a bridge with a piece of meat in his mouth, saw in the
water what he took to be another dog, with a piece of meat twice the
size of his own. Letting go his own, he flew at the other dog to get the
larger piece from him. He thus lost both,--that which he grasped at in
the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream
swept it away.

[Illustration: Music]

JACK & GILL

Old Nursery Rhyme extended.

Music by T. CRAMPTON.

VOICE

AND

PIANO

1. Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water;
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
Jack got up and said to Jill--
As in his arms he caught her--
"If you're not hurt, wipe off the dirt,
And then we'll fetch the water."

2. Jack and Jill went round the hill
To tend the geese and gander,
But strolled away to sport and play,
And left the geese to wander:
A fox came down and pounced on one,
And stole it for his dinner.
While Jill and Jack came running back,
But Foxy was the winner.

3. Jack and Jill went down the hill
To scare away the crows there:
Jack fired his gun, and soon killed one,
But blew off his own nose there.
Says Jill, "Good luck, my darling Jack!
I'll go and fetch your master;
And don't suppose you've lost your nose,
We'll stick it on with plaster."

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

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