keep the lamb a little longer." But the butcher was a kind man, and said, "Keep both the lamb and the money."

will see

1. LOOK at this picture and you what a reindeer is like, and what sort of man a Lapp is.

off.

2. The Lapp does not live near us; his home is in a very cold land, a long way In that land, for a part of the year, the sun does not rise, and all that time it is dark and very cold, with deep snow and ice. Then, when at last the sun does rise, he will not set for the rest of the year, and all that time it is day.

3. When the dark time of the year is come, it is it is very nice for the Lapp to ride over the snow by the light of the moon;

for the reindeer will draw him so fast that no one can keep up with him, and will run on at this rate for a long time.

4. I cannot tell you how very useful the reindeer are to the Lapp. They give milk, and they are good to eat, and they will draw a load a long way and very fast. When the reindeer is dead, its skin is worn by the Lapp, and it is also made into a roof for his hut, or into a tent for him to live in.

5. Then it is also cut into long thin strips, and made into a kind of rope. The fat is made into oil, to burn in a lamp, or to eat, or to fry fish in. The hoofs, horns, and bones of the reindeer are all used in many ways that I cannot tell you of now.

6. The Lapp is very fond of his reindeer, and, if he is rich, has more than one herd of them; he is sure to have four or five if he is ever so poor.

1. SOME mice live in houses, and some

live in the fields. The house-mice live in

holes in the wall. Field-mice make nests for their young ones out-of-doors.

2. Field-mice are very small and very pretty. They can climb up the stems of wheat or corn or other grain. There they make their nests.

3. When the wind blows, the nests swing to and fro. The little ones think this good fun. They like to have a ride, and to have the wind rock them, just as a baby likes to be rocked in its cradle.

1. THE cow has a horn, and the fish has a gill; the horse has a hoof, and the duck has a bill.

2. The bat has two wings, the tiger has claws; the monkey a tail, and pussy four paws.

3. And they swim, or they fly, or they walk, or they eat, with fin, or with wing, or with bill, or with feet.