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-after more afraid of cows than before.
There I I hear the dinner bell."
"Oh, Auntie, won't you tell us more
about Joe and Sue after dinner," clam
ored the children, all three.
t "The very next rainy Saturday," said
Auntie Maude, "I'll tell you about the
shearing and the 'River Ranch," and
the little, motherless calf that Sue found
on the prairie ;" said Auntie Maude.
Do you suppose it ever rained again
on Saturday afternoon?
C. W. K
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Good Biddy Top Knot made a nest.
And hid it very nicely ;
' But cackling when she laid the egg,
Revealed the place precisely.
Sel.
A Story About a Parrot.
doors all night he will be chilled and catch
his death of cold."
It was getting most night, and Mr. Q.
was down at the barn milking the cow.
Pretty soon he started toward the
house and called out to Miss Q., "Mar
tha, I heard the parrot call out, 'grand
ma !' while I was milking, but I eouj
not tell where he was."
Miss Q. was so d.3Ugfcte4
clapped her UaiifPlQy, an4 ran aut
psst the barn to the hack street, and
there was Perequito sitting in a great
LITTLE THINGS.
A little burn will hurt ;
A little sting will smart ;
And little unkind words
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jftf argie. fHrst Burro Ride.
Johnny '"''Armstrong- had a borroj a
little, shaggy, long-eared creature that
looked as droll and jolly as a burro can.
One clay little Maggie Lane came with
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tall gum tree and calling out everything her mamma to spenu tlie clay. Maggie Live and let live is our motto.
Mrs. Q. had a parrot of which she
""and her family were very fond. It was
? given to her by a friend who brought it
from the country where parrots grow
'wild.
When Mrs. Q. first got her parrot it
'was very wild and did not want any one
to touch it. It conld not say a word
and could only squawk J but the parrot
he had learned to say. Pretty soon Mr.
and Mrs. Q. were there, and ever so
many strangers stopping to hear "Polly"
talk. He called ' Do you want to go to
breakfast?. Come along, go to break
fast?" and then he would laugh and
say, "call the dog," "do you want to go
to bed;" and I do not know what all.
But Perequito Was 40 of 00 feet up In
the tall'tree and he did not know how
to come 'down:" and we did not know
how to catch him.
Miss Q. borrowed a great long bamboo
hadn't been lonr in Kansas, and had
lived away back eaet, where they don't
have well, a great many thingH that
Kansas girls and boys know all about.
Johnny felt very shy and hardly knew
just how tu entertain the little girl, but
pretty soon he said in such a teasing
way, "guess you're so little you can't
filfl much;" which challenge Mas of
course the signal for a race ; and as they
"bptlijheaty" his respect for the little
city girl increased and he told her all
about his greatest treasure, Jacko, the,
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pole from a neighbor and Mrs. Q. car-' burrow
ried out the step-ladder. They thought
if one stood on the step-ladder and
reached up the . long pole Perequito
would get on and let them take him
down. But oh, my! They could not
got tame and learned to say some words, reach him by a long distance.
The first thing he learned to say was
"How-do-you-do," and the next was
4,Peek-a-boo." Mrs. Q. named her bird
Perequito, (Per-i-key-toe) and he soon
learned to say his name.
Once Mrs. Q. went on a visit to her
"-relatives and stayed three months.
"While sh was gone Perequito forgot all
One kind man said he would go home
and get his long ladder and bring it.
He did so, and he tried so hard to put
it up in the crotch of the tree so that
he could reach the pole up to the bird,
but it got-dark and he could not see the
bird.
Poor Perequito was frightened to see
;about her and chose Miss Q. for his best s' many people and quit 'talking, so
friend. He learned to like her after she they could not tell where he was. And
Margie thought It must be the most
wonderful little ixmy she had ever heard
about and begged for a ride.
When she saw Jacko, she didn't think
him the least bit ugly, with his great
long ears, shaggy coat and solemn eyes ;
and he was such a tiny little creature,
too, and when Johnnie fetched out his
cute little saddle and bridle, she danced
and clapped her hands for pure joy and
could do nothing but laugh, it seemed
so verv like a fairv storv.
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But Jacko didn't prove a fairy-like
steed. He positively refused to budge
onejneh.- The children, coaxed, pulled
and begged ; but Jacko stood stock still
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came home, bnt never liked her again orry as they were, Mrs. Q. and Miss Q. in tne hot sun calmly blinking his great
as well as he did MissA
Mr. Q. and Uncle John Q. tried to be
good friends with Perequito; but he
never cared for the gentlemen and would
bite them pretty hard if he got a chance.
But the little fellow was so jolly and
merry that all thought a great deal of
him in spite of his bad faults.
. One afternoon after Perequito had
been in the Q. family about two years
had to go and leave Perequito up in the
tree all night.
They did not know what might hap
pen to him . in the night. He might
catch his death of cold, or some night
bird might kill him ; or something might
frighten him so that he would fly away
off. ... -..
I do not know how it was with Mrs.
y., but Miss Q. spent several wakeful
and a half, he was sitting on his perch hours thinking? of the toor little naiW.
in the kitchen and Miss Q. was washing shivering out in the tree.
the dishes. He was sinzing a loud soncr
ww o
that Miss Q. did not care to hear, so
she took Perequito on her finger and
.-. put -him out on -a pear- tree near the
Tcitchen door. Perequito was often put
out in a tree and generally stayed right
.-w.here. he was s: placed,., unless some
strange man came into the yard and
-then he would sometimes fly into an
other tree. Miss Q. forgot all about the
parrot for quite a few minutes and then
she thought she would look out and see
what he was doing. And what do you
think ! Little Perequito was nowhere
to be seen ; no pretty green bird cling
ing to the twigs of the pear tree.
Oh, where was Perequito? Miss O.
Bright and early next morning in the
cold and fog, Mrs. Q. and Miss Q. were
up and out to see if Perequito was still
up there in-the-saine' free: --Yes; there
he was, as lively as. ever and did not
seem to have been hurt by his night in
the tree. But the question ? was still
how to get him down. There was a
great long heavy ladder in Mr. Q.'s
yard that had been left there by the
man who painted Mr. Q.'s house in the
summer ; so Mrs. Q. and Miss Q. tugged
and pulled and got the great ladder out
into the street, and were trying to lift it
up against the tree, so as to reach Pere
quito with the long pole.
But a kind neighbor man came out of
looked from one tree to another hoping his house justthen-and saw . what -the
to see him, and went up and down the
yard calling "Perequito!" But she
could not see him and he did not ans
wer to any of her calling. Mr. , Q. and
Uncle John Q. came out of the house
and theyy"too, went rouncT an'd
Tound the yard hunting . the lost
one but could not find him. Miss Q. quito with the tip end of
was pretty nearly sad enough to sit
down and weep to think that perhaps
he would never see Perequito' again.
And then she would have to tell Mrs.
Q., who was out. in the buggy doing
some errands, that the little bird was
gone.
While Miss Q. was going about search
ing and calling, little Lucy Lantz came
into the yard with Miss Chapman,
her cousin. Little Lucy is just four
years old, and she said to Miss Q. in
ber slow little way, "I came up to see
your parrot." Miss Q. had to say the
parrot was gone and she did not know
whether she would ever see it again.
Kind little Lucy with the pretty
brown eyes said, "I am very sorry you
"lost your parrot."
Miss Q. said, "Well, Lucy, come back
-some other day and if we have found
the parrot you shall see him."
A little later Mrs. Q. came driving in,
and she had already heard that Pere
quito was lost. She got out of her bug
gy and went all around where Miss Q.
had been twenty times before, ealling
-"Perequito, where are you?"
TSnallv hf Rftirl. 'wpll T miaou Vr
7rd is gone for good. If he stays out
Q.s were trying to do. He knew how to
lift up a great ladder, and he came and
set it up against one tree and climbed
to the top of the ladder, then took the
long pole and reached over to the tree
where Perequito was:
He could just barely reach to Pere-
the pole, but
Perequito had good sense that time,
and he jumped right on to the end of
the stick and clung there until the man
reached him down to the Q. ladies.
And weren't they glad to get hold of.
their pretty bird again !
But what do you think that foolish
bird did. .He got frightened at the
strange man carrying the big ladder
into the yard and Miss Q., and circled
around and flew so high that they tho't
he was going back to the very same spot
in the tall tree. But he did not. He
came down and lighted on the ground
and then his friends held him tight un
til they got him in the kitchen.
And I tell you, they are very careful
of him now ; and he takes the air mostly
inside of the screen porch.
' .
A hen with a brood of young chickens
was heard making a great fuss in the
front yard, and Ruby's mother, looking
out, saw her near the little family, and
said, "Ruby, are you chasing that hen?"
"No," answered the three-year-old,
"I'm only going a piece wif her."
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sunlight and white in the moonlight.
sleepy .eves
Johnny had never known him to be
so stubborn before; but the day was
such a drowsy hot one, and perhaps
Jacko felt cross that his little master
should be so thoughtful of hi& comfort ;
for I don't believe ponies like to go
about in the rhot . sun any better than
grown-up people do.
Any way,- he was stubborn, and re
fused sugar, green grass and everything
nice they offered him most all afternoon,
and they were pretty tired and a wee
bit cross themselves. They were talk
ing about getting off and putting him
back .in the, stable, when up jjent Jocko's
head and tail and away he ran.
A while ago J hey had taken off Jacko's
saddle, and now it was difficult to stay. ,
on his back ; and pretty soon when he
jumped over a little ditch, off they both
tumbled and fell in. And oh, such for
lorn looking children you never saw !
All drabbled with black mad and just
bristling with sand-burrs ! How Johnnie
laughed at Margie, and Margie laughed
at him.
Margie had a great many rides on
finer ponies afterwards,' 1)ut ;never such
a gay one as that. Johnnie declared
ride Jacko" had ever
I believe. Jacko .rather
enjoyed it himself ; don't you?
C. W. K.
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'twas the jolliest
given him, and
One day Jessie was sitting in her
grandpa's lap, and while sitting there
noticed that his head was bald on top.
She said, t'Ph,.- 'ranpa, your head's
peaking froo."
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