letters at mamma's feet. He always brings the capital letters.

11. We play horse with Spot. I fasten him to my cart, and drive him up and down the road. Sometimes I ride in the cart, but I think that makes too heavy a load for Spot to draw.

12. When Susie comes to see us she puts her doll on Spot's back, and he never gets cross with her.

13. He will not eat out of the cat's dish, but if she comes to his dish and takes a piece of his meat he does not touch her.

14. I think he does not like the cat very well, but he does like the two little kittens. I have seen both of them crawl over him when he was lying down, and he never moved.

1. Dance, straight, capital, hugged, kissed, crawl, dragged, dirty.

2. What are "capital letters"? Add ed to hug; to drag. What change is made? What does straight mean? What is the first thing Spot did? the second? the third? the fourth? the fifth? the sixth? Which one shows the most knowledge? Find three sentences in the lesson. Write a sentence about each of the pictures. Group the words in the first three paragraphs. What words can you make from dirt?

XLV. MY BROTHER JOHN.

1. Where is John? Where is John? Oh,

MY BROTHER JOHN.

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Those cherries look so nice and large that I long for some of them.

3. I never saw nicer cherries than these

are.

4. Why, John has a basket! It is nearly full of cherries, and I think they are for me. 5. It is about as well to have a good brother who can climb for you, as it is to climb up the tree yourself.

6. Still, I would like to be up there with him, for I think cherries are a little sweeter when you pick them yourself.

7. John knows every tree near our house by its leaf or bark. Sometimes I try to puzzle him by showing him two leaves or two pieces of bark from the same tree, or from two trees of the same kind, but he always tells me just what kind of a tree they came from.

8. He says that if I know a cherry from a plum, or a pear from an apple, I ought to know the difference between the leaves of these trees.

9. I do know many trees by their leaves, and some by their bark, but I am not always sure just what kind of a tree the bark shows.

10. It is easy enough to tell the difference between the leaves of most of the plants that grow in the garden, and I do not make many mistakes about the leaves of flowers; but the leaves and bark of trees seem to me harder to remember about, they are so much alike.

11. Nearly every day John brings home a leaf, and we look at it carefully to see its shape and shade and veins, so as to know, when we see another leaf like this one, what it grew on.

1. Limb, climb, yourself, cherries, sweeter, puzzle, remember, veins, difference, shade.

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2. Make all the words you can, using self; as, yourself. Why is "?" used after John? Why is a title put over a lesson ? Why are pages of a book numbered? Change cherries to make the word mean but one. er added to sweet makes it mean what? What does sweet tell about cherries? Does it describe the cherries or tell their quality? It is called a describing-word, or a quality-word. Is nice a quality-word? large? Add er to large and nice, and tell what they mean. Give three words in the lesson that stand in the place of name-words. Give two quality-words.

XLVI. WHO STOLE THE BIRD'S NEST?

1. "To-whit! to-whit! to-whee!

Will you listen to me?

WHO STOLE THE BIRD'S NEST?

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Who stole four eggs I laid,

And the nice nest I made?"

2. "Not I," said the cow. "Moo-oo! Such a thing I'd never do.

3.

I gave you a wisp of hay,
But didn't take your nest away;
Not I," said the cow. "Moo-oo!
Such a thing I'd never do."

"To-whit! to-whit! to-whee!
Will you listen to me?

Who stole four eggs I laid,
And the nice nest I made?"

Now, what do you think?

Who stole a nest away

From the plum tree to-day?"

5. "Not I," said the dog.

"Bow-wow!

I would not be so mean, I vow!

I

gave hairs the nest to make,
But the nest I did not take;
Not I," said the dog. "Bow-wow!
I would not be so mean, I vow!"