thousand

tremble whisper though

THE CHILD'S WORLD.

Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,

With the wonderful water around you curled,

And the wonderful grass upon your breast

World, you are beautifully dressed.

The wonderful air is over me,

And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree; It walks on the waters and whirls the mills,

And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.

You friendly Earth, how far do you go With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow;

With cities and gardens and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles?

Ah, you are so great and I am so small,
I tremble to think of you, World, at all;
And yet when I said my prayers to-day,
A whisper within me seemed to say;

"You are more than the Earth,
Though you are such a dot;

You can love and think,

And the Earth cannot."

-William B. Rands.

Little deeds of kindness,

Little words of love

Make our earth an Eden,

Like the heaven above.

manger

growled

barked

THE DOG IN THE MANGER.

A Dog was in a manger which was

filled with hay. An Ox came to the manger and wanted to eat the hay.

The Dog raised his head and growled.

The Ox tried to go nearer.

The Dog rose

up and barked, and would not let the Ox

eat the hay.

"Cross Dog," said the Ox, "you cannot eat the hay yourself and you will not let any one else eat it."

Little drops of water,

Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean,

And the wondrous land.