. Four feet, two feet, and no feet; or, Furry and feathery pets, and how they live. Animal behavior. GHUGKY AND HIS PICTURE. 27/ They saw the men turn somersets over the backs of the elephants; but when the three-horse rider came out, both Tommy and !N"ellie were fast asleep. It Avas too much circus for them. The next day, and for a whole week after, they talked about the circus, the elephants, and the wild CHUCKY AND HIS PICTURE. Chucky was his name. It may seem a funny name for a poor little orphan woodchuckj but that is what we called him when he came to live at our house. Wh


. Four feet, two feet, and no feet; or, Furry and feathery pets, and how they live. Animal behavior. GHUGKY AND HIS PICTURE. 27/ They saw the men turn somersets over the backs of the elephants; but when the three-horse rider came out, both Tommy and !N"ellie were fast asleep. It Avas too much circus for them. The next day, and for a whole week after, they talked about the circus, the elephants, and the wild CHUCKY AND HIS PICTURE. Chucky was his name. It may seem a funny name for a poor little orphan woodchuckj but that is what we called him when he came to live at our house. When he was very little we built him a house. It was a box with slats nailed across the front and sides. He was very much afraid of Rover; and the dog, thinking he was no better than any other woodchnck, would bark at him. He wanted to give him a good shaking for coming to live at "The ; After we had scolded him and told him not to touch, he finally let little Chucky alone. Still he looked very crossly at him as Chucky poked his little brown nose through the bars of his prison-house. Chucky grew rapidly, and soon found that his house was too small for him. He told us so by gnawing at the slats. We let him out, and he went to live under the wood-shed. He was a roguish little fellow, and enjoyed playing with Kitty Tom very much. But he was shy of Eover, and showed his dis- like by snapping his teeth at him. One day a "picture-man," as !N^eddie called him, stopped at our house to dinner. As he was about starting away Charlie exclaimed,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943. Boston, Estes and Lauriat


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