Juvenile Instructor . ed out and lost. And he says theywill do better and be safer with the herdthan here by themselves. Uncle Sethsays they will raise wool and otherlambs for me, and that in a few 3ears Ishall have quite a herd of sheep of myown. And if that should come true,Nina, half of the herd will be yours, sowe shall both have wool and sheep to besold, as Uncle Seth has, and we can buyour clothes, and help papa and mama tobuy things which they will need. Wontit be nice, dear. Nina says, Yes, it will be nice, andthe lambies may all have some of mybirthday dinner that mama is cookingforme
Juvenile Instructor . ed out and lost. And he says theywill do better and be safer with the herdthan here by themselves. Uncle Sethsays they will raise wool and otherlambs for me, and that in a few 3ears Ishall have quite a herd of sheep of myown. And if that should come true,Nina, half of the herd will be yours, sowe shall both have wool and sheep to besold, as Uncle Seth has, and we can buyour clothes, and help papa and mama tobuy things which they will need. Wontit be nice, dear. Nina says, Yes, it will be nice, andthe lambies may all have some of mybirthday dinner that mama is cookingforme. But you can feed them, Flossie,and Ill see you. L. L. G. R. STEALING WATERMELONS. In the town of Ferry there lived twoboys whose names were Peter andHarry. There was a man who livedoutside of the town who raised water-melons. The two boys said they were going tosteal some of the old mans melons. Soone day they started out about played along the road so that itwould be dark when they reached themelon THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR. 637 They came to a creek which they hadto cross. There was an old bridge andthey sat down upon it and a while they began to lift up thelogs to see which could lift one thehighest. B\ and by, as they were lift-ing the logs, the bridge broke and wentdown into the creek. The sun was thenjust going down, so they went on to-wards the field of melons. They soon came to the fence andcrawled under it and began thumpingthe melons to see if they were was a turkey in the melon patch,and it got frightened and began to flyup into the trees and gobble, whichmade the boys feel a little afraid thatthey might be seen. The man had said that he wouldplace guns around in his melon patch,and tie strings to the triggers, so thatwhen boys came to steal melons theywould run up against the strings andthe guns would go off and shoot theboys, or frighten them so that theywould run away. After the boys had picked some mel-ons, when the turkey
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