ng all the fun!

JOSEPHINE POLLARD.

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IN THE COUNTRY.

FANNY and Willy are having a nice ride on the back of the great
cart-horse.

Mamma points at Willy with her sun-shade, and says, "Hold on tight,
little boy." Pink, the dog, says, "Bow-wow! Take me up there with you."

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Kate and Jane have the care of the biddies. They feed them with corn
every day. The hens flock around the door as soon as the two girls come
out.

Kate and Jane both say that the hens are fond of them; but I think they
are still more fond of the corn.

A. B. C.

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DODGER.

DODGER is a full-blooded Scotch terrier. His eyes are the brightest of
all bright eyes; and he acts just as one might suppose from his name. He
dodges here and there,--under the sofa, and behind the stove, and up in
a chair, and sometimes puts his paws up on the baby's cradle.

The other day, the baby's red sock dropped off from his foot; and Dodger
slyly picked it up, and, going to a corner of the room, ate off the red
tassels that were on it. I don't think he will do it again; for he did
not act as though they tasted very good.

Dodger has many cunning ways. He will bring his master's slippers, sit
up straight, pretend to be dead, and do many other funny things. Just
now his master is trying to teach him to shut a door.

Dodger belongs to a little boy in Hartford, Conn., who has read "The
Nursery" for five years. The little boy's name is Georgie, and I am

GEORGIE'S MAMMA.

THE MOTHER-HEN.

BY the side of my home a river runs; and down close by the banks of it
lives a good family named Allen. Mr. Allen keeps a large number of hens
and ducks. One old hen had twice been put to sit on ducks' eggs, and
hatched two broods of ducks.

The first brood she hatched took to the water as soon as they saw it, as
all little ducks will. The old hen was almost crazy at such behavior on
the part of her chicks, and flew down to the water's edge, clucking and
calling at a great rate. However,--to her great surprise,
probably,--they all came safely to land. Every day after that, when the
little ducks went for a swim, their hen-mother walked nervously back
and forth on the shore, and was not easy till they came out of the
water.

By and by, after those ducks had all