Little Jack Horner sat in the corner

Eating a Christmas pie.

He put in his thumb and pulled out
a plum,

Saying, "What a good boy am I."

The north wind doth blow,

And we shall have snow,

And what will the robin do then?

He'll stay in the barn,

Poor thing.

Away from all harm,

And tuck his head under his wing,

She found a pitcher of water.

But the water was so low that she was

unable to reach it.

She did not give up at once.

still to think what to do.

She stood

Soon she began to gather stones and drop them one by one into the pitcher. This made the water rise in the pitcher until she was able to reach it.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

THE FOX AND THE GRAPES.

A hungry fox found a vine which hung

full of grapes.

The grapes were far up from the ground. The fox looked and longed for them.

He jumped and sprang about for a long time.

But he was unable to reach them.

Then he went away saying to himself,

"Green, sour things.

Let those have them that wish for them.

I will not have one of them."

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LESSON XI.

rain-y

speak

means

THE BOY AND THE RAINDROPS.

Pitter-patter, pitter-patter,
On the window pane.
Pitter-patter, pitter-patter,
Little drops of rain.

Pitter-patter, pitter-patter,
All this rainy day;

Tell me, little rain drops,

Is this the way you play?

I sit here at the window,

With not a thing to do.
How I'd like to play a game
This rainy day with you!

The little rain drops cannot speak.
But "Pitter-patter, pat,"

Means, "We can play on this side,
But you must play on that."

One day we had a lesson on plants.

We found that a plant has three parts;

the root, the stem, and the leaves.