take them, you may have a row for one cent. A row has twenty-four pins in it. Is that high?” (6 No; I think they are worth that.” 66 Won't you buy some toys? This little pig is four cents, and the dog is only eight.” "I will take the dog for baby. Now I must buy something for Sue. ribbon ? " 66 Seven cents, ma'am. her doll, wouldn't it?" 66 How much is that blue It would be pretty for Let me pay you for what I have bought. Here is a cent for the pins; this is for the dog; this for the ribbon. Is that right, sir?" "Yes, madam, thank you. else you would like ?" Is there anything "No; but I should like to have you call again. Good morning." 66 Good day, ma'am. Here, little boy, I will give you this pig. Good by, little girl.” The pedlars called on each lady two or three times. Then they all had lunch, and Hugh and Rosa went home. "We have had a nice time," they said. VIO'S LESSONS (continued from page 55). When a girl or boy can write the small letters well, the CAPITALS do not seem very hard. She never tried Vio wrote neatly and well. to write fast. It was her mamma's rule that she should always write as well as she could, even when she wrote in play. She could write on the ruled side of her slate, or on the other, which was not ruled. And she could do very well with a lead pencil and paper. So now she was to begin to write capitals. Her mamma showed her those which were most alike. She put all the letters into four classes, and Vio spent a week on each class. The first class had in it the five letters you see on this page. You may look for the others as you go on with your reading. When Vio could make a letter, her mamma let her write sentences that began with it. Here is one of them: A little girl named Ada came to see me." You may write it, too. CAPITALS.-CLASS I. 66 M G G A N M THREE BILLY-GOATS GRUFF. Once upon a time there were three billy-goats, who went up the hillside to make themselves fat, and the name of all the three was Gruff." 66 On the way up was a bridge over a brook; and under the bridge lived a great, ugly troll, with *Troll is the name of a kind of fairy. eyes as big as saucers, and a nose as long as your arm. And first of all came the youngest billy-goat Gruff to cross the bridge. Trip trap! trip trap! went the bridge. "Who's that, tripping over my bridge?" roared the troll. 66 Oh, it is only I, the tiniest billy-goat Gruff; and I'm going up the hillside to make myself fat," said the billy-goat, with such a small voice. "Now I'm coming to gobble you up," said the troll. 66 Oh, no; pray don't take me. I'm too littlethat I am," said the billy-goat; "wait a bit till the next billy-goat Gruff comes; he's much bigger." "Well! be off with you," said the troll. A little while after came the second billy-goat Gruff to cross the bridge. TRIP TRAP! TRIP TRAP! TRIP TRAP! went the bridge. "WHO'S THAT tripping over my bridge?" roared the troll. "Oh, its the second billy-goat Gruff; and I'm going up the hillside to make myself fat," said the billy-goat, who hadn't such a small voice. "Now I'm coming to gobble you up," said the troll. แ Oh, no; don't take me; wait a little till the big billy-goat Gruff comes; he's much bigger." 66 Very well! be off with you," said the troll. But just then came the big billy-goat Gruff. TRIP TRAP! TRIP TRAP! TRIP TRAP! went the bridge, for the billy-goat was so heavy that the bridge creaked under him. 66 WHO'S THAT tramping over my bridge?" roared the troll. "IT'S I, THE BIG BILLY-GOAT GRUFF," said the billy-goat, who had an ugly, hoarse voice of his own. "Now I'm coming to gobble you up," roared the troll. "Well, come along," said the big billy-goat; and so he ran at the troll, and poked him with his horns, and tossed him over into the brook, and after that he went up the hill-side where the two other billy-goats had gone. The billy-goats got so fat they were hardly able to walk home again; and if the fat hasn't fallen off them, why, they are fat still; and so, as the Norse boys used to say |