"What will you do with it? said I. "Bow-wow-wow,' said the dog; that is 'I will buy a bun with it.'

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"So I gave the dog the pen-ny; and I saw the dog run to a shop, and he put down the pen-ny and took up a bun, and then he went and dug a hole in the ground, and put the bun in the hole, and then he came up to me, and did wag his tail, and say, 'Bow-wowwow;' that is to say, 'Give me one more pen-ny.'

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No, no, my sly dog, said I, you have got a bun eat the bun you have got. If you want a bun, go, dig it up, and eat it.

"So the dog dug up the bun and eat it." "What a sly dog. Can I see that sly dog?' "Yes, if you come with me you can see that sly dog."

"Shall I tell you what my ape did?” "Yes; what did he do?"

"My ape, whose name was Ned, stole a peach off the wall, so we put a chain on his neck and shut him up. Now, Ned did love a peach, and he did not love to have a chain on his neck and be shut up. And he said to himself, 'What shall I do to get a peach ?' So Ned said to a dog with whom he did love to play when he was not shut up, 'Get me a peach.'

"And the dog, in his way, did say, 'How can I get you a peach?

"Run to the wall and pick me a peach,' said Ned

"And the dog ran to the wall and he did pick a peach, and he gave it to Ned, who was shut up with a chain on his neck, and Ned eat the peach, and he said, 'See, I have got a peach ; they shut me up that I should not get a peach, but I have got a peach for all that, and I have eat-en it up, too.'

"And you may be sure Ned was glad when the dog got the peach and gave it to him off the wall."

"TELL me some more of what Ned did."

"Ned did like a nice sweet cake, and one day he put his paw in a plate of cakes when I was not by to say, 'No, no, Ned, those cakes are not for you.' And he took a cake and ate it up, and he said to him-self,

"That cake is nice and good, I must take one more cake.'

"And he took one more cake, and one more cake, and one more cake, till all the cakes in the plate were gone; and when I came in from walk there was not one cake left. So I said, "Oh, oh, Mr. Ned, this will not do; if you eat my cakes I will not let you come in-to the room at all.' So the ape was sent out of the room.

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"Now, Ned did not like to be sent out of the room, for he said, 'If I may not come in-to the room how can I get any more cakes?' So, by and bye, he made up his mind what he would do. And you shall hear what he did.

STORY IV.

HOW THE APE GOT MORE CAKES.

"At that time I had a young pet el-e-phant, whose name was Tim, and Ned was fond of Tim, and the two would have fine games of