Osgood's progressive second reader : embracing progressive lessons in reading and spelling . proved 2 .3 tongue cbanced eating bushes capers wagged poisou pulled THE PET LAMB.(concluded.) 1. In the course of a few hours, tlie lambbegan to revive. He jumped out of the basketwhere the Lady had placed him, and came nearrunning into the fire. He frisked about, andwagged his little short tail at a great rate. 2. Had there been any children about thehouse, their delight at the sight of his caperswould have been very great; but Willie andEllen were the only children that Mrs. Duncanhad, so no one but
Osgood's progressive second reader : embracing progressive lessons in reading and spelling . proved 2 .3 tongue cbanced eating bushes capers wagged poisou pulled THE PET LAMB.(concluded.) 1. In the course of a few hours, tlie lambbegan to revive. He jumped out of the basketwhere the Lady had placed him, and came nearrunning into the fire. He frisked about, andwagged his little short tail at a great rate. 2. Had there been any children about thehouse, their delight at the sight of his caperswould have been very great; but Willie andEllen were the only children that Mrs. Duncanhad, so no one but this lady herself was thereto see his pranks. 3. When Ellen and Willie came home at half-past four, it would have done your heart goodto have seen them, they were so pleased withtheir prize. They fed it with warm milk, freshfrom the cow; they tied a blue ribbon round its. snowy neck, and called it Snow-drop, because itwas so very white. 4. Willie went to work, and made a verynice warm pen for it to sleep in at night. Evenafter dark, when supper was over, and littleSnow-dro]3 was sleeping soundly in a large basket,Willie and Ellen still kept on talking aboutlittle Snow-drop and his prospects. 5. For many months after this they spentnearly every spare moment with their pet. Hebecame so fond of tlie children, that he wouldfollow them through the house, round the yard,in the fields and woods, like a dog. 6. In time he became very strong; two littlehorns started out of his head, and he seemed to Osgoods second reader. 89 want to push every one and every thing that I came in his way. i 7. One day Snow-drop chanced to wander by Ia cluster of hiurel-bushes, and perhaps he thought |they were good because they looked so fresh and |green, for he began to eat the leaves as fast as ihe could. Ellen and Willie were looking for !flowers, and did not see what he Avas
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