!

My kite may fly up in the tree;
My sled be stuck in mud;
And all my hopes of digging wells
Be nipped off in the bud:

But with a little box of nails,
A gimlet and a screw,
I'm happier than any king:
I've work enough to do.

ANNA E. TREAT.

COOSIE AND CARRIE.

COUSIN CHARLES said, "Come and see the sheep." So I went to where he was
standing on the front porch, and calling "Co-nan, co-nan, co-nan!" The
gate was open; and the sheep and lambs were coming into the yard.

I asked, "Why do you tell John to drive the sheep into the yard?"
Charles answered, "Because it has been raining hard; and the brook in
the meadow has grown so big, that I am afraid the sheep will get drowned
in it.

"Last year we found a sheep lying dead in the brook. Her two lambs were
standing near by, crying for her. We took them to the house, and fed
them with milk. We named them Coosie and Carrie. Mother can tell you
about them."

Then I ran to auntie, and said, "Oh! tell me all about Coosie and
Carrie." So my aunt told me about them; and this is what she said:--

When the two little lambs were first brought
in, Mary, the cook, made a nice bed for them in
one corner of the kitchen. Then she put some
warm milk in a bottle, and took one of the
lambs up in her lap and fed it. Oh, how pleased
it was! And the other lamb stood by crying
until its turn came.

The lambs soon grew fat and strong, and ran
about the yard. But they made themselves quite
at home in the house; and we could not keep
them out.

One day I went into my room; and there were
Coosie and Carrie jumping up and down upon my
spring-bed.

I sat down and laughed heartily; and the lambs
kept on jumping, and looked as if they were
trying to laugh too. But I could not have such
saucy lambs about the house any longer: so they
were driven to the meadow with the rest of the
flock.

Auntie and I laughed again, to think of the lambs' frolic; and I said,
"O auntie! how I wish they would eat out of my hand now! Do you think
they will?"

"I am afraid not," said she. "They have been with the flock a whole
year, and I suppose are no longer tame; but you can try. Take some
apples to them."

So, with so