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black goat was on one side, and the white one on the other.

3. There was a plank across the stream. Both goats wanted to go over at the same time; but there was not room to pass each other.

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4. The black goat would not wait for the white one, nor the white goat for the black one. So they both stepped on to the plank to cross over, and met in the middle.

5. There they butted at each other with their horns. And the end of it was, both fell into the water and were drowned.

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HAVE a little sister,

They call her Pretty Peep;

She wades in the water,

Deep, deep, deep!

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2. She climbs up the mountain, High, high, high!

Poor little thing,

She has but one eye!

3. Come a riddle, come a riddle, Come a rot tot tot,

A little wee man in a red coat,
A stick in his hand and a stone
in his throat,

Come a riddle, come a riddle,
Come a rot tot tot.

4. The little sister that wades and climbs, and has only one eye, is a star. The little man who carries a stick in his hand and a stone in his throat, is a cherry.

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1. COME, let me feel your pulse, Miss Doll;

It's very fast, poor dear!

And what a color in your

You're feverish, I fear.

cheeks!

2. You cannot show your tongue, I know, So that I shall not see,

And I must guess as best I can
What sickness this may be.

3. I think too many sugar-plums
Have made you very ill,
So I shall send for you, my dear,
A sugar-coated pill.

4. Be sure, without a face, to take
The dose this afternoon,

And then I hope that you will be
Much better very soon.

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1. A GRASSHOPPER who had not thought

of laying up anything in the summer, found,

THE DOG THAT LOST HIS SUPPER.

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when winter came, that she had nothing to

eat.

2. In her trouble she went to her neighbor the ant, who had stored away a great deal of food, and begged her for a few grains of wheat or rye.

3. The ant asked her what she had been doing all the bright summer. "Alas!" said the grasshopper, "I was singing and dancing all the sunny days, and never once thought of winter."

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4. "Very well, then," said the ant, have no food to spare for you. They who sing and dance all summer ought to starve when winter comes.'

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1. ONCE a dog was going home with a nice bit of meat in his mouth for his supper. As he went over a brook, he saw himself in

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