I've looked in the cradle, and under the

table;

But nowhere can kitty be found.

2 I've hunted the clover and flower-beds

over:

I peeped in the old wooden spout: I went to the wood-pile, and stayed there a good while;

But never my kitty came out.

3. I've been in the attic and made a great racket;

I peeped into little Dick's bed:

I've looked in the stable, as much as I'm

able;

I hunted the wood-house and shed.

4 I called little Rover, to hunt the field

over,

And help find my kitty for me;

No dog could be kinder, but he could n't find her:

O, where can my poor kitty be?

5. At last I have found her, brown leaves falling round her,

Way up on the wall by the tree;

O, there is my kitty, so cunning and pretty!
Come, come, naughty kitty, to me!

L. GEORGE AND HIS GRANDFATHER.

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grand'pa pa

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1. GEORGE was four years old, and was always wishing that he was a big boy, for then he could go out in the fields by himself, and ride on the pony alone, and be able to read the large books in the library. And I should grow bigger and bigger," said George," until at last I should be as big as grandpapa!'

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2. George thought over it, and said to himself, "The reason that grandpapa is so big is because he has coffee and eggs for breakfast. And the reason he can read in the large books is because he wears spectacles. If I wore spectacles, and had coffee

instead of bread-and-milk, I should soon be able to do all that grandpapa can.”

3. Then George waited for a good chance to try if he could be like his grandfather, and before long he found one. His grandfather one morning had to go and see a poor man at the door; and while he was away George put on his grandfather's velvet cap with fur round it, and a pair of spectacles that were lying on the table. Then he took a sip at his grandfather's coffee. Then he opened the newspaper that was lying upon the table. And then he tried to read it.

4. "I can now do all that grandpapa can do," said George.

But he found that instead of being able to tell A from B, and C from D, he saw only lines that seemed to run into each other, so that he could see nothing plainly.

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5. Perhaps grandpapa does not look through his spectacles," said George. Then he looked over them and saw A and B and C clearly, but he could not spell the words any better than if he had no spectacles on. 6. As he sat looking very grave over it,

his grandfather came back.

you doing?" he asked.

"What are

"I am trying to be big and read as well as you do," said George; "and I thought the coffee and spectacles would do it."

7. His grandfather laughed, and he said, "No, no, George, it will take more than that to make you a man. You will have to grow for a great many years yet; and you will have to learn words, and study every day till you can read the long words without spelling."

8. "I don't like lessons," said George; "I want to read, and not to do lessons."

"You cannot do anything without trouble," said his grandfather; "so the sooner you begin to take pains with your lessons the sooner you will read well."

9. George thought for a minute; he was a sensible boy, and so he said, "I will try." And day after day George learned word after word, so that he knew them at first sight, and he soon found that it did not need grandpapa's spectacles to make him read the longest words very easily.

1. ONCE on a time a child was born, who was not bigger than one's thumb. But he was a very pretty boy, and as he was so