fur are new,
And she can run
To me and you.

XVIII.

The bad old dog
Did go a-way,
And in a pit
He hid all day.

XIX.

As out he ran,
A man sat by--
He had a gun--
The dog did _die_!

XX.

For the big man
Was sad for Mop,
And so his gun
Did go off--pop!

XXI.

And now my Mop
All day can run,
And get her nap
Out in the sun;

XXII.

Or eat all day;
And now you see
She is as fat
As fat can be.

XXIII.

We can let Mop
Go to and fro,
For the bad dog,
Who bit her so,

[Illustration:

"Her eye is out,
But you can see
She is as fat
As fat can be."--P. 26.]

XXIV.

Did get a pop;
It was not fun,
For he did die,
By the pop gun.

XXV.

Now Mop and you
And I can go
To spy a rat,
All in a row.

XXVI.

But by one eye
Old Mop can spy
A rat as far
As you or I.

SAM, THE BAD BOY.

A boy was out one day. It was Sam. He had his new hum top. He did say
to his mam-ma: "Oh! see my top! Can I go out and try my new hum top?"

[Illustration: "Sam let the big boy try his top."--P. 29.]

"Yes, my son, but do not go into the old hut."

"Oh! no, mam-ma," Sam did say; and out he ran in the air.

By and by, a big boy did run up to him and say: "Sam, let me try the
top? oh! do."

Sam let the big boy try, and, O my! how the top did go! and did hum,
hum, hum so, Sam did say it was a big bee.

But, oh! sad to say, the big boy did let the top fly off in-to the
hut; and Sam did not do as he was bid, for he ran in to get it.

He saw an ax in the hut.

"Oh! see the ax," Sam did say, "I can try it on the old log, out in
the lot; yes, I can see if it can cut."

Was he not a bad boy to say so? for his mam-ma did say to him one day:
"You are but a bit of a boy; so you can not do as a big man can do. Do
not get the ax; if you do, you may cut off a leg or an arm, and you
may die; so do not go to the hut at all, and to-day, too, she did
say: "Do not go to the hut."

But the bad boy got the ax, and ran out to the old log.

And now, oh! oh! I am sad to say the ax did not cut the log. No! it
cut off Sam's big toe!

How he did cry and hop! His mam-ma ran out, and saw her boy out by the
log; the ax was by him, and his big toe was off.

It is no fun at all to get a