e-ver play a-ny
tricks with it, or try to tease it, for par-rots when an-gry can
bite pret-ty hard. Poll and her young friends seem to be quite on
good terms, but I should not like to have my fin-ger so near her
bill, unless I were cer-tain of her be-ing in a good hu-mour.
Par-rots a-muse us much by their be-ing able to learn to talk far
bet-ter than a-ny o-ther bird.

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THE FLOW-ER GAR-DEN.

What a pret-ty scene a flow-er gar-den af-fords! Roses, tu-lips,
wall-flowers, and ma-ny oth-ers, a-like pleasing to the sight and
the smell. The lit-tle boy de-serves to en-joy all the plea-sure
that the gar-den can pro-cure him; for he is at work with his
tools, his spade, his bar-row, and his roll-ing stone, which shews
a de-sire of mak-ing him-self use-ful. I be-lieve, too, he has
kind-ly gi-ven his eld-est sis-ter the rose at which she is
smell-ing, and he will I have no doubt, help the young-est in
fill-ing her bas-ket.

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THE NEW DOLL.

We must con-fess that the lit-tle lass with the doll in her hand,
makes a ve-ry cle-ver and care-ful nurse. She is shew-ing her new
trea-sure to her friend on her right with no small de-gree of
pride, at which we need not won-der, nor at the man-ner in which
the oth-er ap-pears to ad-mire it, for it is a ve-ry hand-some
af-fair. It must have cost the lit-tle girl's pa-pa and ma-ma a
great deal of mo-ney, and I hope she will know how to va-lue and
take care of it, and not throw it a-bout af-ter she has had it a
lit-tle while, and get tir-ed of it, as I have known some silly
children do.

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A WALK WITH MA-MA.

This lit-tle boy and girl, may ve-ry well be in high spi-rits.
Their ma-ma is not of-ten a-ble to go out with them, for the
in-fant takes up a great deal of her time, and she has ma-ny oth-er
things to at-tend to at home, so that the chil-dren most-ly walk
with the ser-vant. But to-day, ma-ma is at lei-sure, and they have
set out for a nice walk in the fields, ba-by and all. The child-ren
seem rea-dy to skip with de-light, and e-ven Tray shares in their
joy. We wish the par-ty much pleasure.

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A RIDE WITH MA-MA.

Well, this is a tru-ly sty-lish set-out. The pair of long-tailed
hor-ses are per-fect beau-ties, and the post-lad has no need to use
the whip to them. I do not won-der that the lit-tle folks enjoy
their ride so much, in such a nice car-riage, and through such a
love-ly co