THE NEW VELOCIPEDE. Georgie Gracie afraid besides papä dollars "Don't you see yourself, Gracie, how much nicer it is than a pony? "It won't kick or shy. It isn't afraid of the cars. just as you tell it with your two hands. And it can't throw you off. "And besides, as papa says, it costs nothing to keep it, for it doesn't need oats or hay. "It is worth the five dollars, and I'm glad I have it." "If it were not for your dress, Gracie, you could ride on it. Then you could have one of your own, and we would run races. 66 Don't you think you could stand on the bar behind and ride with me? I saw Fred May take his sister so. She put her arms right round his neck." "I don't think I should like to ride that way; but I could tuck my dress in and ride on the seat, I am sure." II "Look, now, and see how fast I can go down this hill. I shall take off my feet and only steer with my hands." LESSON 1.- WORD STUDY. stēēr many a fraid' learned George went like the wind. Gracie had to run to keep him in sight. Then what! Did it shy? Was it afraid of something? Gracie was quite sure it did not go as it was told. We see in the picture what came to pass. "O, Georgie, are you hurt?" cried Gracie. 66 "No, not a bit," said George. 'But it never did this way before. It must have hit a stone. -I'll sell you and buy a horse if you play me such a trick again." But it never did. George learned to make it go just as he wished; and many a ride had he, and Gracie, too; for she learned to ride on the seat, and to stand behind, with her arms about her brother. As George said, it was well worth five dollars to them. 66 "They stand straight, like printed letters," said mamma; in writing, the letters slant. All the lines should lean to the right." Vio tried again, and did much better. "The lines that go up are right now; but the down lines' slant the wrong way! Try again." "Well, mamma, look at these?" said Vio. "The slant is right now; but you make too sharp a turn at the bottom. It is up, down, round,' is it not? Your turn is not round." hide. Zip would stalk about as if he thought it was a good joke. The very next day the same thing would happen over again. By and by Snip had two lovely puppies in the stable. Wee bits of things they were, black and soft. The little mother was very fond of them. bā'bies sta'ble pōrch cûrled growled eat'en One day, after her dinner, when she went to the stable, she could not find one of her puppies. The next day the other was gone. Poor little Snip! She ran all around the place looking for her lost babies. She cried as if her heart would break. Uncle The lost puppies could not be found. Will said the rats must have got them. Snip thought it over, and made up her mind that Zip had eaten the puppies. Every time he came near, she growled and showed her teeth. She was afraid to snap at him. One day Snip lay on the porch curled up on a mat. Zip stood on one leg, not far off, looking at her. All at once she sprang up and rushed at him. She rolled over and over upon the ground. |