7. She did not set the bone just right, so when it got well it did not walk as before, but had to hobble along.

8. Their mother put five goose eggs under Fanny's hen, whose name was Snow White. Snow White sat on the eggs for four weeks, and hatched out five big goslings.

9. The other hens did not like the looks of the big, awkward goslings, so they pecked at them, and tried to kill them.

10. Snow White bristled up and fought for her goslings so hard that the hens soon learned to keep away from them.

11. Snow White's goslings soon found the brook. They would swim in it, while Snow White ran up and down the banks trying to call them out.

12. One of the goslings swam so far from home that a mink saw him and caught him and ate him up.

13. Beauty, the tame turkey, sat on eighteen eggs and hatched them every one.

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14. Beauty never weaned them as the henmothers always do. Her chickens grew up around her.

15. Some of them when they became large

pullets would go away to lay their eggs and would come back cackling, and would follow Beauty around all day.

16. Robert, Fanny and Maud's brother, had a tame fox. He kept it chained to a dog-kennel. One day the fox thought "How good a little chicken would taste!"

17. So the fox dug up the dirt in front of the kennel with his fore-paws. Then he went into his kennel and made believe he was asleep.

18. Soon several chickens came to dig for worms in the dirt. Out jumped the fox and caught one of the chickens.

19. Robert's father said, when he learned what had happened, "Now, Robert, you must either get rid of that fox or put him where he can do no more harm."

20. So Robert, who was very fond of his fox, built a wire fence around the kennel. There were no more chickens caught by Mr. Fox, for the chickens could not get near enough to him to come within his reach.

1. Robert, have you ever seen the electric lights?

2. No, Charlie; we burn oil in our street lamps. I should like to see the electric lights.

3. When you come to visit us, Robert, you can see the electric lights. We can see to walk along our streets at night almost as well as by day.

4. How is that, Charlie?

5. Why, it is because the electric lights are so bright.

6. Are they as bright as the sun?

7. O, no! There is nothing so bright as the sun, but the sun itself.

8. Charlie, does a man go around to light the electric lights?

9. O, no! The lights are on the tops of high poles. A long thick wire goes from pole to pole.

10. The wire begins at a house where they make electricity. The electricity runs along the wire.

11. It would kill a man to touch the wire when the electricity is turned on.

12. When night comes the men start up some wheels. When the wheels go they make the electricity. Then all the lights shine at once.

13. I have seen the machines that make the electricity, but I don't know how they do it.

14. When I am four years older I shall go to the High School. Then I shall learn more about electricity, for I shall be old enough to understand the subject.

15. You just said, Charlie, that there is enough electricity on the wire to kill a man. Do accidents ever happen?

16. Yes, Robert. A man climbed a pole to fix a wire. He did not put on his rubber gloves. He got a severe shock, fell to the ground, and died in two minutes.

17. Once a wire broke and fell to the street. A milkman drove along; his horse stepped on it and fell down dead. I was glad no little boy tried to pick it up. ·

18. When you come to the city be sure not to touch any electric wires.

1. Charlie, you know more than I do about electric lights, and other things people see in the city; but, Charlie, we country boys know more than city boys about the birds and the animals that live in the woods and in the fields.

2. I wish you would come out to visit us next Christmas vacation.

3. You ought to see the men fish on the pond near our house. We call it a large pond, but some of the people that come from the cities call it a lake.

4. Every winter, when the pond, or lake, is frozen over, some men walk out on the ice.

5. First, they cut a hole in the ice; next, they drop down a net through the hole into the water; then they drop some meal into the water over the net.