sooner than water will
give you web-feet to swim with.

12. "All that you have taught my children on dry land, I shall be
pleased to repay by teaching the next brood you have to swim and dive."
At this the gander stretched out his throat and laughed.

13. "You should allow yourself more time to think," said old Dame
Turkey, the wife of the turkey-cock, as she stood on one leg to listen.

14. "You are always in a hurry and a bustle. Don't mind so much about
the affairs of other people, and take things calmly, as I do. If you
had been more like me, you would not have made this mistake about the
duck."

15. "We have not all the same habits,--the same nature," said Mistress
Betty, softly. "And I see that it is of no use trying to make other
folks' children like our own." Dame Turkey nodded her head in a very
wise manner.

16. She must have been a very clever old dame, for she knew when to
keep silent. As for Betty, she grew to be a very modest, useful hen,
with no pride or conceit about her.

17. At the present time, though she is getting old, she is still a
worthy fowl. She lives at the same farm, and would divide her last worm
with a chicken or a friend. But she has never tried to turn ducklings
into chicks again.

* * * * *

_Write:_ The little ducks saw the pond. They ran to it and went in. It
was of no use for the hen to call them back. They went after their own
mother-duck.

Questions: 1. Where was Snowdrop to be found? 2. What did
the ducklings do when they saw the pond? 3. What did the
guinea-hen call out? 4. What did Betty do? 5. What did Dame
Turkey say? 6. What sort of hen did Betty become?

WORDS FOR SPELLING.

DICK AND HIS CAT.

1.

fa'-mous
Whit'-ting-ton
walk'-ed
pave'-ments
in-stead'
door'-step
for-lorn'

2.

hid'-ing
pleas'-ant
ei'-ther

3.

emp'-ty
pas'-sion
laugh'-ed
pa'-ti-ent
greet'-ing
for'-eign

4.

daugh'-ter
whis'-per
beau'-ty
fetch'-ing
may'-or

5.

wreck'-ed
reach'-ed
pal'-ace
cush'-i-on
leap'-ed
mor'-sel
fam'-ine

6.

sur-pris'-ed
strug'-gled
coax
flan'-nel
wrap'-ping
caught
glimpse
feast'-ing
in'-stant
scar'-ed
roy'-al
trea'-sure

7.

Eng'-land
learn'-ed
hand'-some
friends
need'-ed
great'-est
faith'-ful
treat'-ed
purr'-ed
laur'-el

TRUSTY.

1.

land'-lord
bread
cheese
ven'-ture
beam'-ing
bus'-tle
crouch'-ing
shad'-ow
dis'-mal
blink'-ed
voice