THE LAME MAN AND THE BLIND MAN

A long time ago a King made a great dinner. He invited many people to come and help eat the dinner.

The King's servants invited two poor men to come. One of the men was blind and the other one was lame.

"How sorry I am that we cannot go to the fine dinner!" said the blind man. "We should have enough to eat and to drink, and I hear that the King is going to give a present to every man there. But I am blind and cannot see the way and you are lame and cannot walk."

"If you will do as I say," said the lame man, “we can both go to the dinner.” "Why how can we get there? asked the blind man.

"That is easily done," said the lame man. "You are strong and I can see. Take me

on your back. If you will carry me I will show you the way."

"Good!" said the blind man. So he took the lame man on his back and soon both were eating of the King's dinner, and each had a fine present to take home.

-Dodsley

Simple Simon met a pieman,
Going to the fair;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Let me taste your ware."

Says the pieman to Simple Simon, "Show me first your penny."

Says Simple Simon to the pieman, “Indeed I have not any."

Simple Simon went a-fishing
For to catch a whale;

All the water he could find
Was in his mother's pail.

Simple Simon went to look
If plums grew on a thistle;
He pricked his fingers very much,
Which made poor Simon whistle.

He went to catch a dicky bird,
And thought he could not fail,
Because he had a little salt
To put upon its tail.

He went for water with a sieve,
But soon it all ran through;
And now poor Simple Simon
Bids you all adieu.

WHAT THE MOON SAW

"Once upon a time," said the Moon, "I was shining down on a little town very, very far away, and this is what I saw.

I saw a man and a dancing bear. The man was eating his supper in a small hotel. The bear was tied behind a great pile of wood near the hotel. The bear was not so fierce as he looked; he was lonesome.

Up in the attic of the hotel, three small children were playing about in my bright light," continued the Moon. "The eldest child was just six years old, and the youngest one was not more than two years old.

After awhile the children heard a great noise on the stairs. The door of the little attic flew open and in walked the big bear. He was tired of staying down in the yard alone. He thought he would like to go where the children were playing.

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