And what a color in your cheeks! You're feverish, I fear. 2. You cannot show your tongue, I know, 3. I think too many sugar-plums So I shall send for you, my dear, 4. Be sure, without a face, to take And then I hope that you will be 1. A GRASSHOPPER who had not thought of laying up anything in the summer, found, THE DOG THAT LOST HIS SUPPER. 27 when winter came, that she had nothing to eat. 2. In her trouble she went to her neighbor the ant, who had stored away a great deal of food, and begged her for a few grains of wheat or rye. 66 3. The ant asked her what she had been doing all the bright summer. Alas!" said the grasshopper, "I was singing and dancing all the sunny days, and never once thought of winter." 4. "Very well, then," said the ant, “I have no food to spare for you. They who sing and dance all summer ought to starve when winter comes." 1. ONCE a dog was going home with a nice bit of meat in his mouth for his supper. As he went over a brook, he saw himself in the water, which was clear, like a lookingglass. 2. He thought it was another dog, with a piece of meat in his mouth. And then, what do you suppose this greedy dog thought? 3. This greedy dog thought: "I will fight That dog and take his meat, And then I'll carry both away; And sha'n't I have a treat!" 4. Then he snapped at it; but when he opened his mouth he dropped his own piece, and it went down, down, down, to the bottom of the brook. 5. And so this foolish dog lost his supper. Did it not serve him right? 66 IMPLE SIMON met a pieman Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Let me taste your ware." 2. Says the pieman to Sim 66 ple Simon, Show me first your penny." Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Indeed, I have not any." 3. Simple Simon went a-fishing, 4. Simple Simon went to look He pricked his fingers very much, Simon whistle. 5. He went to catch a dicky-bird, And thought he could not fail, Because he had a little salt To put upon its tail. |