tired of the street, and wanted to get back to
Miss Dorothy. So, when Polly heard Tony's kind words, she flew down to
the cross-bar, and, when he held out his hand, she lighted on it, and
Tony slid with her down the post to the ground.

"Well done, my lad," said the policeman. He went with Tony, carrying the
bird, to No. 10, Maiden Place; and Miss Dorothy was so much pleased that
she gave Tony three dollars instead of two. On his way home he bought
that copy Of Virgil.

DORA BURNSIDE.

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FEEDING THE DUCKS.

A MILD summer day, and one, two, three, four children sitting on the
ground by the pond, and feeding the ducks!

But I think I hear the larger girl, who is standing up, say to the
sitters, "Children, don't you know better than to sit there on the damp
earth? You will every one of you catch a cold. Get up this instant."

That is what the larger girl ought to say; for many children take bad
colds by sitting on the grass. The other day, as I went through the
Central Park in New York, I saw a maid in charge of three children, one
of them an infant, and she was letting them lie at full-length on the
grass.

I told her she must not do so; but she said the weather was warm, and
there was no danger. As I knew the parents of the children, I told her
she must take the children up at once, and let them sit on the seats
near by.

At length she obeyed me. Two days afterwards I called on the parents of
the children, and then learned that every one of the little ones was ill
with a cold. I told the mother what I had seen at the Central Park and
she told the maid that never again must she let the children sit on the
bare grass. The maid promised she would not do so again.

AUNT MATILDA.

A BABY LAY.

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WHAT does the kitten say? "Mew, mew, mew!"
She shall have some nice milk, warm and new.

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Up jumps the dog, and says, "Bow, wow, wow!
I'm as good as kitty, and I'm hungry now."

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What does the cow say? "Moo, moo, moo!"
And the pretty little calf tries to say so too.

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"Ba-a!" says the little lamb,--"baa, baa, baa!"
What does she mean? Is she calling her mamma?

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The rooster struts around, and cries, "Co