When Teddy sometime wanted rest,
What if a giant came and sat
Beside him when he slept the best,
And rolled him this way, rubbed him that,
And teased him, as he does the cat?

Do you believe he'd smile and blink,
And bear the teasing patiently?
I think he'd wink a sleepy wink,
And say, not over pleasantly,
"O giant, please to let me be!"

MRS. CLARA DOTY BATES.

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PICTURES FOR MARY.

WHEN little Jack Horner was eating pie, he put in his thumb, and pulled
out a plum. When Mary's mother reads to her out of a book, the little
girl acts a good deal like Jack.

She puts out her finger, and points to the pictures. She thinks them
the best part of the book. They are her plums.

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If Mary calls out, "Moo-o-o," you may know that she sees a picture of
cows. Here is the very one she found a day or two ago. In it you see two
cows,--a big one and a little one. The big cow is standing up, and the
little cow is lying beside her.

The little cow has no horns. Mary calls it "a little cow," because it
looks too old to be called a calf.

Here is the very picture that Mary was looking at when she called out,
"Ba-a-a!"

How many sheep do you see in it? There are two lying down: there is one
standing up: that makes three. Is that all?

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Look very sharp. See if you can't find more of them. Mary found some
straying about on the hills. She thought she could see lambs too; but
sheep, when a long way off, look very much like lambs.

A. B. C.

THE CHAMOIS.

THE chamois is a sort of antelope. But first let us say something of the
pronunciation of this word _chamois_. It is often pronounced as if it
were spelled _sham'my_. This is, perhaps, the easiest mode. But it would
be nearer to the French mode to pronounce it _sham-wah_, the last _a_
having the sound of _a_ in _wall_.

The family of antelopes consists of nearly seventy species, upward of
fifty being found nowhere but in Africa. The whole of America, North and
South, contains but one species. All the antelopes have a most delicate
sense of smell, and few quadrupeds can equal them in fleetness. They
will outrun the swiftest greyhounds.

The antelopes live in herds, and are very careful not to be surprised:
so t