no hay till you go to the Butcher and fetch me some meat."

First she leaped and then she ran,

Till she came to the Butcher and thus began:

"Pray, Butcher, give me some meat that I may give to the farmer, so he will give me some hay that I may give to the Cow, so she will give me some milk that I may give to the Cat, so she will give me my tail again."

"No," said the Butcher, "I'll give you no meat till you go to the Baker and fetch me some bread."

First she leaped and then she ran,

Till she came to the Baker and thus began:

"Pray, Baker, give me some bread that I may give to the Butcher, so he will give

me some meat that I may give to the Farmer, so he will give me some hay that I may give to the Cow, so she will give me some milk that I may give to the Cat, so she will give me my tail again."

"Well," said the Baker, "I'll give you some bread,

But don't eat my meal, or I'll cut off your head."

The Baker gave the Mouse bread, which she brought to the Butcher; the Butcher gave the Mouse meat which she brought to the Farmer; the Farmer gave the Mouse hay which she brought to the Cow; the Cow gave the Mouse milk which she brought to the Cat; and the Cat gave to the Mouse her tail again.

Doing nothing is doing ill.

THERE WAS A LITTLE MAN

There was a little man,

And he had a little gun,

And his bullets were made of lead, lead,

lead;

He went to a brook,

And fired at a duck,

And shot him right through the head, head,

head.

He carried it home

To his good wife Joan,

And bade her a fire to make, make, make;

To roast the little duck,

He'd shot in the brook,

And he'd go fetch the drake, drake, drake. The drake was a-swimming

With his curly tail,

The little man made it his mark, mark, mark;

He shot off his gun,

But he fired too soon,

And the drake flew away with a "Quack!

quack! quack!"

-Old Rhyme

DOWN IN THE RABBIT-HOLE

I.

It was a lovely summer day. Alice was sitting on the grass beside her sister who was reading. Alice did not want to read and her sister did not want to talk.

Soon Alice grew very sleepy. She was thinking about picking some daisies to make a daisy-chain, when suddenly a Rabbit ran by. It was a White Rabbit with pink eyes.

"Oh, dear! oh, dear!" the Rabbit said. "I shall be too late!" And he looked at his watch which he took from his waistcoat pocket.

Alice thought it was very queer to see a Rabbit with a waistcoat pocket and a watch, so she ran after him.

in time to see him pop down

She was just

into a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. In another