ead,
A roll like this you see.

One turnover she puts on top,
Because it pleases me.

Now when I saw Miss Pussy's back
As she lay upon the mat,
I thought of Ellen's bread and pie
It surely looks like that,
So adding ears and tail I had,
The rear view of my cat.

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PLAYING COOK.

JENNY was at her little table, making a pudding for her doll's dinner,
when brother Albert came in with Snap the dog, and said, "Let me be the
cook, sister: I know how to make a pudding. First I will break these
three eggs into the dish."

"But I can see no eggs," said Jenny.

"Look sharp," said Albert, going through the motion of breaking an egg.
"Good and fresh."

"I see no eggs," said Jenny.

"You must be losing your eyesight," said the cook, taking a spoon. "Now,
then, I will stir up the eggs; and now I will put in a little flour; and
now I will grate in some nutmeg."

"I think you had better put in some milk," said Jenny.

"Of course, I shall," replied the cook. "Where's the basin of milk?"

"You will find it on the floor," said Jenny.

Albert looked, and cried out, "Go away, Snap!--See, Jenny, that greedy
dog has lapped up all the milk!"

"No matter," said Jenny. "You can get some more where you got the eggs."

So Albert seized the little pitcher, went through the motion of emptying
it, stirred the pudding once more, and then placed it on the little
doll-stove.

"Oh, what a fine cook you are!" said Jenny. "But, when I am very hungry,
I think I shall not come to you for my dinner."

IDA FAY.

HOW A BOY CAUGHT A FISH WITH HIS NOSE.

A FEW years ago, a little boy was out fishing with his mother, on
Crooked Lake, in the western part of New York; or perhaps I should say,
_she_ was fishing, and he was looking over the side of the boat. He
could see the fish darting about here and there, and liked to watch
them, and he put his face as close down to the water as he could to see
them more plainly.

A big trout came along, and saw something smooth and round and white
close to the top of the water. It was the boy's nose. The trout was
hungry, and I suppose he thought it was a piece of meat, or something
else good to eat: so he gave a spring out of the lake, and caught fast
hold of it with his teeth.

Very much startled, the boy jerked his head back