e, and seemed to pine so, that her owner,
Mrs. Gilbert, who was a humane woman, and took a great interest in dumb
animals, sent for Grim to come back.

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It would have pleased you to see the meeting. The instant the goose
heard Grim's familiar bark, she started up, and ran with outstretched
wings to greet him. She came as near to embracing him as a goose could.
Grim seemed well pleased with her delight, and barked his
acknowledgments in a tone that could not be mistaken.

The goose soon regained her appetite, and was not again parted from her
dear Grim. The best of this story is, that it is true. So you see that
even geese are not so stupid but that they show gratitude to those who
befriend them.

Indeed, geese seem to be constant in their affections. They know, also,
how to show anger. I remember once seeing a boy tease some geese in
order to make them angry. They ran after him in a rage, seized hold of
his clothes, and nipped him smartly to punish him for the insult.

Once, in Scotland, a young goose became so fond of its master, that it
followed him everywhere, no matter how great the distance, and even
through the crowd and tumult of a city.

UNCLE CHARLES.

WHAT WILLY DID.

WHEN the gas was lighted,
Willy's mamma said,
"Maggie, feed the children,
And put them both to bed."

When the milk was eaten,
Maggie went for more:
So she put the baby
Down upon the floor.

Then the naughty Willy
Climbed up for a match,
And he lit it quickly
With a little scratch.

But it burnt his fingers
When the flame arose,
And suddenly he dropped it
On the baby's clothes.

Up it blazed so fiercely,
That, when Maggie came,
There was little baby
Screaming in the flame.

Maggie put the fire out,
And saved the baby too;
But Willy was so frightened
He knew not what to do.

He was sorry, too, for baby,
With arms all burnt and sore;
And so he never meddled
With matches any more.

H. F. W.

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LEARN TO THINK.

WALTER DANE was in a hurry to go off to play at ball with some of his
schoolfellows; and so he did not give much though