master
got out of the buggy to see what was the matter; and there, close by the
horse's fore-feet, was a baby on its knees.

Was not Prince a good, wise horse to refuse to harm the baby? Another
time, when a little boy came up behind him, when the flies were
pestering him, Prince, instead of kicking him, just lifted up one of his
hind-feet, and pushed him gently away.

Prince is very fond of sugar; and, as his master's little girls used to
feed him with it, I think that is one reason why he is so kind to all
children. Whenever Prince sees these little girls, he will make a queer
whinnying noise, the meaning of which is, "Oh, do give me a lump of
sugar!"

In the picture, the hostler is offering Prince some oats; but Prince
knows that the man has some sugar, and so he refuses the oats. He wants
his sugar first.

ANNA LIVINGSTON.

HOW TADDY LEARNED HIS LESSON.

TADDY and his mamma had just got nicely settled, she with some sewing,
and he with a little primer, out of which he was beginning to learn his
lesson, when mamma was called away to see a neighbor who was sick. She
only stopped to tell Taddy to study his lesson like a good boy, while
she was gone. But, instead of looking on his book, the little boy, as
soon as he was left alone, began to look out of the window. In an open
lot behind the house he saw grown-up Jamie, who lived next door, skating
on a little sheet of ice.

Taddy's eyes began to grow round. "Don't I _wish_ I was a big boy too,
so I could skate!" he said to himself.

Then he saw Jamie take off his skates, and lay them down on the ice, and
go off on an errand for his mother.

All at once it popped into Tad's head to slip down the back-stairs, and
out through the gate, and just _see_ if he could not skate.

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"I'm sure," said he, "it can't be so very hard: the boys do it _so_
easy! What if I do tumble down a few times at first! I don't mind a
little bump."

So he sped down the stairs, tied on his cap and scarf, tucked his
mittens in his pocket, and was off for the ice.

"The skates are too long for me, but that is no matter. I know how to
put them on. There! now they're on. Hurrah! here I g--! Oh!"

Down he sat, before he had hardly got upon his feet. He got a hard bump;
and his bare hands rubbed upon the ice till they were so cold, that, if
he hadn't made up his mind to be stout-hearted, he would have been glad
to go