S.
Wild pea Purple, white Dry sandy soil; North and
South.
Wild red raspberry White Thickets, road-sides; N. E.,
South, and West.
Wild sarsaparilla White Moist woods; North and West.
Wild touch-me-not Orange, brown Thickets, shades, beside
streams. Common.
Wood-sorrel Violet Rocky, damp woods; Orange,
N. J., South. Rare.
Wood-sorrel White, red veins Deep cold woods; Mass. to Pa.
Wood-sorrel Yellow Copses and open fields;
everywhere.
Yellow-wood Showy white Rich woods and hills;
flowers Middle States.

[Illustration: SWINGING "BRER RABBIT."-DRAWN BY PALMER COX.]

THE ADVENTURES OF A RAT RACE.

BY JAMES B. MARSHALL.

The carpenters came on a certain Monday morning to make some needed
alterations about Mr. Wilson's stable at the rear of his house yard. And
you know what a noise carpenters will make when working; far more than
enough to disturb the most contented of rats.

Peggy O'Conner, who was moving to and from the kitchen hanging up linen
to dry in the yard, said she saw no rat pass by her; but as a rat was
found in the library, it must have come there by way of the side yard
from the stable.

It was a rather warm summer morning, but with enough of a breeze blowing
to start Uncle Leonard sneezing if he should drop off to sleep while
sitting in a draught. Now, merry Uncle Leonard was asleep in an
easy-chair down in the library, where the two window-sashes were raised
and both doors were open. He had gone there, as usual, to read the
morning paper, but gradually it drooped nearer and nearer the end of his
nose, as usual, until it finally spread itself adroitly over his closed
eyes, to fend off the flies. Then he began to make that soft
steam-enginery sound that most stout gentlemen make when asleep, about
as loud as the purring of "Cattegat," Lou and Amy's cat.

Cattegat always followed Uncle Leonard to the library if possible, to
escape Lou and Amy, who, during their vacation, were trying to teach him
to hold a lump of sugar on the end of his nose while seated on his hind
paws. Cattegat, who liked the