"Well, I will give the cow some hay, and then we will milk her." "Does the cow like hay, papa'?"

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"O yes, she likes hay as well as you like bread."

Just then Mary saw the cow take up an apple.

"Why, papa'," said she, "how did our cow lose her teeth?

"Lose her teeth?" said her papa'. Yes," said Mary. "She has no

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front teeth in her upper jaw."

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"She never had," said her papa'. A cow never has front teeth in her upper jaw. But come, let us milk her."

So Mary stood by her papa', and learned how to milk the cow.

LANGUAGE LESSON.

What did Mary want to do?

What did the cow eat?

How many legs has a cow?

What did Mary learn about the teeth of the cow?

THE SHIP THAT JACK BUILT.

This is the ship that Jack built.

This is the sail that moves the ship that Jack built.

This is the mast, so strong and new, that holds the sail that moves the ship that Jack built.

This is the flag-red,

white and blue-that floats

love

blue

hōpe

floats

from the mast, so strong and new, that holds the sail that moves the ship that Jack built.

And I hope the boys and girls are few, that love not the flag-red, white and blue-that floats from the mast that holds the sail that moves the ship that Jack built.

This little girl, I'm glad to say,
Is eight years old this very day.

She makes a hat for little "Doll,"
And puts in it a feather tall.

One doll is large, the other small, And each one has a little shawl.

She talks to them. They won't obey. And then she says, "You can not play.

"For, if you wish me to be kind, Then you must always try to mind."

SLATE EXERCISE.

Let pupils write and properly mark the words in the "Vowel Exercise."

FRANK AND HIS KITE.

Frank went out to fly his kite. As it went up into the air, he let out more string.

At last the kite was far up in the sky. Then Frank lay down in the grass to watch it.

"I wish I had

a string two miles long," said Frank.

"I wonder if

it would reach

to the stars.