on taking it. One rainy day, we sent him to the station
with three umbrellas, and he delivered them all safely. One day his
master went out to the barn without his hat. Tasso did not think this
was proper: so he took the hat in his mouth and carried it out to him.

I could tell you many other amusing things about Tasso. He is always
attentive and obedient, and every one who knows him loves him and trusts
him.

F. A. S.

MAKING CHEESES.

"DOES the little fairy
Work in a dairy?
I hear her talk about making cheese,--
She with her locks the color of money,
Hanging long and crinkled and sunny
Down to her waist,--a golden fleece."

Oh, such a laughter
As rings out after
My words, is the sweetest sound I know!
Sparkle the eyes that had been dreaming:--
"Aunty dear, if you want to see me,
I'll show you how to make one,--so!"

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Soon as she utters
This, out she flutters,
Her full fresh frock as white as the snows;
Round she whirls, and then in a minute
Sits down quick, and the air within it
Puffs it out like a full-blown rose.

That's what she pleases
To call "making cheeses."
I'm sure I could give it a better name.
Call it playing at daffy-down-dilly,
Call it playing at white day-lily:
Either will suit me just the same.

Lily for brightness
She is, and for whiteness;
A golden centre her long locks grow!
And isn't that head, so shimmering, sunny,
Daffy-down-dilly-like, yellow as money?--
Rogue she is anyway, _that_ I know.

MRS. CLARA DOTY BATES.

MY PETS.

I AM a little girl seven years old. I live way up in the woods of Maine,
in the little town of Howland, forty miles from anywhere. Now you may
wonder how I can amuse myself, so far away from the world: so I am going
to tell you.

I live on a great farm, with grandpapa, Aunt Peeps, and Nan, and Will. I
have a pair of top-boots, so I can play out doors in wet weather. I was
glad when grandpapa brought them home; and the first thing I did was to
find a g