. Book of cats and dogs, and other friends, for little folks . urt the child, but drove him into acorner, and kept him there by shaking his headwhenever the little fellow tried to get away. 3. I heard Harry cry, and led Billy away;but he gave a parting shake of his head to theboy, as much as to say, ^ Next time I will lookafter you closer. 4. Coming home one evening, I heard a coupleof horses running and frisking about in the farm-yard at a great rate. The wall was high, and Icould only see their heads, and once in a while awhisk of their tails. 5. I found a hole to look through, and saw ^that
. Book of cats and dogs, and other friends, for little folks . urt the child, but drove him into acorner, and kept him there by shaking his headwhenever the little fellow tried to get away. 3. I heard Harry cry, and led Billy away;but he gave a parting shake of his head to theboy, as much as to say, ^ Next time I will lookafter you closer. 4. Coming home one evening, I heard a coupleof horses running and frisking about in the farm-yard at a great rate. The wall was high, and Icould only see their heads, and once in a while awhisk of their tails. 5. I found a hole to look through, and saw ^that the horses were amusing themselves by chas-ing a pig around the yard. 6. They would drive it into a corner, andfling their heels into the air with great would not give the poor pig a momentsrest. 7. They would rest for a few minutes, andthe pig would settle down to his cabbage-leaf,when they would rush at him from different sides,so that he had not the least idea where to run toget away from them. LESSON XXVI 69 HOW THE HORSE SHOULD BE 1. We see, from what Charlie has told us, howuseful the horse is. We now would like to havehim tell us how we should take care of horses. 2. I wdll do so by telling a story. Last Satur-day Uncle William hitched old Major and Ben toa big wagon, and took a load of boys to Oak Hill,to pick berries and have a good time. 3. I tell you uncle knows w^hat boys and horseswant, if anybody does. Pretty soon Bobby Joneswanted to drive. So uncle gave him the reins. 4. Bobby wanted the whip, too; but uncle 70 LESSON XXVII.— {Continued.) said that we should not whip the horses, as theywent fast enough. He carried the whip just totouch them up when there was any danger. 5. Then Bobby began to jerk the reins; butuncle showed him how the horses would move oneway or the other by j)ulling the rein a little, andhe told Bobby that jerking hurt their mouths. 6. When we went down Stony Hill, just be-fore we came to the long bridge, uncle took t
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