rn in their glass prison: how they would enjoy a swim in
the garden pond!

QUANDARY.--Poor Dame Partlet having got into the back yard cannot
get out again. She is in a Quandary, for she fears the dogs will
bite her--though their chains are not long enough. Keeper, the
mastiff, is a noble fellow, and would not hurt women or children;
neither would Nero, the bull-dog; he would rather face a lion or a
wild ox: whilst Snap, the terrier, barks and snarls in the company
of his brave companions.

Little boys and girls should not touch strange dogs, for they
sometimes snap at those who are not familiar to them. To take food
from dogs is not prudent, for they growl, bite, and are
ill-tempered, like a little fellow would be if deprived of his
dinner, after he had tasted the first morsel.

RIVALRY.--To compete for good is famous--such as little boys
rivalling one another in a race up the Ladder of Learning--that is
exercise of the mind. Here we have a picture of country boys
exercising their strength--climbing up a pole covered with grease,
for a prize of food for the body. The boy that wins the leg of
mutton will be the hero of the fair, and be carried round the place
on the shoulders of the men. See how they strive and tear to win the
prize. I should not wonder if they all slipped down together,
notwithstanding the encouraging cheers of the crowd. See how the man
on the housetop swings his hat in the air, and the people applaud. A
few inches higher, and the prize is won.

SLUGGARD.--Heavy-headed, sleepy Ned, awake, arise! You lazy fellow!
Look at the clock! Eight hours' rest is enough for any little
boy--and here you have taken nearly fourteen. All Sluggards should
get their slates, and calculate how much time they waste every
year--weeks that can never be regained. If you only lie in bed two
hours later than you should every day, you lose more than one day in
a week, or sixty-four days in the course of the year: which, at the
end of seventy years, would be awful indeed! Twelve whole years
lost! Lazy, idle people, never seem to have time for anything:
industrious ones, time for anything and everything. I hope when
little Ned sees his portrait he will be shocked with his appearance,
and reform his ways.

TOPSY-TURVY.--Well, of all the funny pictures in this droll book I
think this the drollest--a big letter T resting on its top on the
ceiling, like in an overturned doll's house, or a view taken by an
artist standi