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This dog is the mastif. He is active, strong, and used as a watch dog. He has a large head and pendant ears. He is not very apt to bite; but he will sometimes take down a man and hold him down. Three mastifs once had a combat with a licn; and the lion was compelled to save himself by flight.

THE STAG.

The stag is the male of the red deer. He is a mild and harmless animal, bearing a noble attire of horns, which are shed and renewed every year. His form is light and elegant, and he runs with great rapidity. The female is called a hind; and the fawn or young deer, when his horns appear, is called a pricket or brocket.

bär, fall, what, prey, marine, pin, bird, möve.

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The squirrel is a beautiful little animal. The gray and black squirrel live in the forest and make a nest of leaves and sticks on the high branches. It is amusing to see the nimble squirrel spring from branch to branch, or run up and down the stem of a tree, and dart behind it to escape from sight. Little ground squirrels burrow in the earth. They subsist on nuts, which they hold in their paws, using them as little boys use their hands.

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AN old man found a rude boy upon one of his trees stealin apples, and desired him to come down; but the young sauce-box told him plainly he would not. Won't you? said old man, then I will fetch you down; so he pulled up.

book, dove, full, use, can, chaise, gem, thin, thou, some turf or grass and threw at him; but this only made. the youngster laugi, to think the old man should pretend to beat him down from the tree with grass only.

Well, well, said the old man, if neither words nor grass. will do, I must try what virtue there is in stones: so the old man pelted him heartily with stones, which soon made the young chap hasten down from the tree and beg the old man's pardon.

MORAL.

If good words and gentle mcans will not reclaim the wicked, they must be dealt with in a more severe manner.

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The Country Maid and her Milk pail.

WHEN men suffer their imagination to amuse them, with the prospect of distant and uncertain improvements of their condition, they frequently sustain real losses, by their inattention to those affairs in which they are immediately concerned.

A country maid was walking very deliberately with a pail of milk upon her head, when she fell into the following train of reflections: The money for which I shall sell this milk, will enable me to increase my stock of eggs to three hundred. These eggs, allowing for what may prove addle, and what may be destroyed by vermin, will produce at least two hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will be fit to carry to market about Christmas, when poultry always bears a

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good price; so that by May day I cannot fail of having
money enough to purchase a new gown.
Green-let me
corsider-yes, green becomes my complexion best, and
green it shall be. In this dress I will go to the fair, where
all the young fellows will strive to have me for a partner;
but I shall perhaps refuse every one of them, and with an
air of disdain, toss from them. Transported with this tri-
umphant thought, she could not forbear acting with her head
what thus passed in her imagination, when down came the
pail of milk, and with it all her imaginary happiness.

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HASTY and inconsiderate connections are generally attended with great disadvantages; and much of every man's good or ill fortune, depends upon the choice he makes of his friends.

A good-natured Spaniel overtook a surly Mastif, as he was traveling upon the high road. Tray, although an entire stranger to Tiger, very civilly accosted him; and if it would be no interruption, he said, he should be glad to bear him company on his way. Tiger, who happened not to be altogether in so growling a mood as usual, accepted the proposal; and they very amicably pursued their journey together. In the midst of their conversation, they arrived at the next village, where Tiger began to display his malignant disposition, by an unprovoked attack upon every dog he

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book, dove, full, use, can, chaise, gem, thin, thou. met. The villagers immediately sallied forth with great indignation, to rescue their respective favorites; and falling upon our two friends, without distinction or mercy, poor Tray was most cruelly treated, for no other reason but his being found in bad company.

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The partial Judge.

A FARMER came to a neighboring lawyer, expressing great concern for an accident which he said had just hapened. One of your oxen, continued he, has been gored by an unlucky bull of mine, and I should be glad to know how I am to make you reparation. Thou art a very honest fellow, replied the lawyer, and will not think it unreasonable that I expect one of thy oxen in return. It is no more than justice, quoth the farmer, to be sure; but what did I say?—I mistake-It is your bull that has killed one of my oxen. deed! says the lawyer, that alters the case: I must inquire into the affair; and if-And if! said the farmer, the business I find would have been concluded without an if, had you been as ready to do justice to others as to exact it from

them.

In

-Henry, tell me the number of days in a year. Three hundred and sixty five. How many weeks in a year? Fifty How many days in a week? Seven. What are they called? Sabbath or Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

two.

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