THE THRUSH SINGS, "MAKE HASTE UP"

JOHNNY TAKING THE LINNETS

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PUSSY FLYING FROM THE SWALLOWS

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THE RAVEN FEEDING GUN

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WAYS AND TRICKS OF ANIMALS.

JACK'S HARD LESSON.

"I AM sure," said Jack, a fine donkeycolt, to his Mother, "it would be very nice to see the world. This is a dull old place, and there is nothing to be seen here but fields, and grass and trees."

"You are not old enough to know better, Jack," said the Mother. "This is the best time of your life, if you will only think so. You have no care, no weight to draw, nobody to beat you, and you have nothing to do all day but kick up your heels and eat thistles.”

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"Oh, indeed!" said the young donkey, trying to look wise; "but I have to work for my living; if I were not to poke about, how should I find thistles? Now, if I had a master in the town, thistles and sweet hay, and lots of nice things would be bought for me.”

"Would they? The chances are, Jack, that you would never know the taste of thistles, and that the hay would be mouldy, as it too often is in towns, where anything is thought good enough for a poor donkey.”

As Jack was a donkey, of course he was obstinate, so he threw up his head with a look just as you see in the picture, and thought his Mother was not so wise as himself that, in fact, she had lived in the country until she had grown stupid.