PART TWO.

4. Winter came.

The snow fell over every

thing. The poor grasshopper had no house and no food. He was freezing and starving.

hopper.

He went to

the ant's

house and

knocked.

5. The ant

came to the door.

"I am cold and

hungry" said the grass

"Will you not take me into your

66

warm house and give me something to eat?" 6. The ant said: 'Last summer you danced and sang while I worked and sweat. If I took you into my house and gave you

part of my food, both of us would starve and freeze. See if you cannot keep warm dancing on the snow."

pitch'ĕr

thirst

THE CROW AND THE PITCHER

be-yond'

pěb❜bleş

do'ing

stopped

ĭm-pos'si-ble hōping

é-nough' mouth to'wa(e)rd slowly

1. A crow that was about to die of thirst

saw a pitcher, and flew to it, hoping to find something to drink. He found it half full of water. But half full was not enough. The crow could not reach it.

2. He stood on his toes and put his head as far down into the pitcher as he could, but the

clear, cool water was just beyond his bill. 3. He tried to get into the pitcher, but the mouth was too small. Then he stopped to think. A happy thought struck him.

4. He took pebbles in his beak, one by one, and dropped them into the pitcher. Slowly the water rose toward the top. At last he was able to drink his fill.

5. Sometimes things seem impossible. But if they need to be done, we can think of ways of doing them.

LITTLE BO-PEEP

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them;
Leave them alone, and they'll come home,
And bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,

And dreamed she heard them bleating; But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For they were still a-fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them;

She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,

For they'd left all their tails behind them.

1. One day a hare, while skipping through a brier-patch, fell over a tortoise.

2. "Oh, ho, Grandfather Slow Man," said the hare, "how are you to-day? If I could not go faster than you do, I'd not try to go at all. You are so slow that if you fell off a rock you would never hit the ground. If I were you I'd get into a house and stay in it and would not try to travel."

3. "I take my house with me, and I am always in it," said the tortoise. But I am not as slow as you think. To show you that I am not, I will run a race with you.

4. "Run a race with me?" said the hare. "That would be a good joke. I could run around the world while you are getting out to the big road."

5. Just then Judge Fox came along. "Grandfather Tortoise wants to run a race with me," said the hare, and he laughed so loud he was heard all over the brier-patch. 6. Judge Fox was old and wise. "That would be a race worth seeing," he said. "Let us have it now. Start from this place,

and run to the next mile-stone. Ready! One, two, three, go."

PART TWO

7. The hare was out of the brier-patch, and away up the big road in a minute. When he came to the top of the big hill, he looked back, down the road. Not a thing could be seen of Grandfather Tortoise.

8. Then the hare laughed and skipped down the other side of the hill to the branch. He got himself a drink and lay down on the moss in the shade.

9. "I'll rest here awhile," he said.

"When

I see Grandfather Tortoise coming over the hill I will run on to the next mile-stone." He lay there too long; soon he fell fast asleep.