barn. Georgie had to wake them from their nap. "You mustn't sleep all day,” he said.

The basket was put into the back of the red wagon. Georgie got cake for Rab, Caper, and himself, and some corn-bread for Buff and Duff.

The goat and wagon were his birthday present when he was five years old.

His cousin Tom had trained the goat to draw the wagon, and Georgie soon learned to drive.

Rab barked so at Caper at first that he would not go; but they are good friends now. Rab barks as much as ever, he thinks it such sport; but Caper does not mind it.

Georgie picked his basket full of apples, and brought them up to the house. His papa called him his hired man when he saw how much work he had done; and this pleased Georgie as much as the rest of the play.

"I'll do more to-morrow," he said. picked up under one tree."

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How do you tell a goat from a sheep? a dog? a cow?

The name of this horse is Prince; the boy is Charlie Williams.

Charlie's father bought the horse in Canada, and rode horseback all the way home. He was a week in coming, though he rode twenty-five miles each day.

Charlie could hardly wait to see his horse. He told all the boys about him. "I will let you

ride him sometimes," he said.

Prince was quite wild when he came. No one but Charlie's father could go near him for a week or two. Charlie was afraid he should never feel safe on his back.

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"You must coax him with oats and apples," said his papa.

Prince likes apples.

Charlie takes a basket

full, and goes to the pasture fence and calls, "Prince, Prince." The horse pricks up his ears and listens a minute. Then he gallops to the fence to get the apples.

At first, if any one came near him, he would kick up his heels and gallop away.

Charlie began by giving him an apple at the end of a long stick. Then each day he held his hand a little nearer the apple, and at last did not have to use the stick at all.

Charlie has a very fine dog. His name is Don. Don knows a great deal.

When Prince is at the end of the pasture he is too far away to hear Charlie call.

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Go find him, Don," says his master. Don bounds away and drives Prince up to the fence.

There is a colt in the pasture named Lady June, and a cow. Lady June comes and smells the apples, but she is too small to eat them. She stands by and watches Prince.

The cow is fond of apples too; but Charlie cannot let her eat them. Her throat is small, and apples might choke her if she ate them whole.

Don drives the cow away, and will not let her come back while Prince is eating.

Prince is very playful. He and Charlie play together a great deal. He runs after Charlie and takes him up by his jacket and shakes him, but he does not hurt him.

Charlie has a nice new saddle, and when he is on the horse's back he is his master.

LESSON 2.

Charlie's horse.

The horse's back. See Prince's tail.

Teach the apostrophe, and have the phrases written.

1. Horse, eats, smells, fond, apples.
2. Don, drives, knows, fence, great.
After the words have been written, put them into a story.

LESSON 4.

- LANGUAGE:

The parts of a harness.