THE ASS.

Is the most patient of all quadrupeds, and, although thought by many to be the most stubborn, he is not really so, but is both active and willing if well treated. Donkeys are generally badly used by their masters, and you cannot go far without seeing one with his skin bruised by hard blows. Poor beasts! I hope you pity them when you see them looking half-starved, with no flesh on their aching bones, dragging with slow and weary steps some heavy load of sand or wood. The milk of Asses is greatly esteemed for the use of invalids: in some diseases it forms the only nourishment that can be safely given. The foal of the Ass is a pretty, lively little fellow, and jumps about, very unlike his quiet mother.

ROUTLEDGE’S
THREEPENNY TOY-BOOKS,
WITH SIX COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS,
PRINTED BY KRONHEIM.

5.	My First Alphabet	20.	The Cats’ Tea Party
6.	Mother Goose	21.	More Nursery Rhymes
7.	The Babes in the Wood	22.	Robin Redbreast
8.	This Little Pig	23.	A, Apple Pie
9.	The Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe	24.	The Railway Alphabet
10.	Little Bo-peep	25.	Nursery Songs
11.	Nursery Rhymes	26.	Nursery Ditties
12.	Farm-Yard Alphabet	27.	Punch and Judy
13.	Jack and the Beanstalk	28.	Our Pets
14.	John Gilpin	29.	Cinderella
15.	Old Mother Hubbard	30.	Puss-in-Boots
16.	The Three Bears	31.	Little Red Riding-hood
17.	The House that Jack Built	32.	Wild Animals
18.	The Dogs’ Dinner Party	33.	Tame Animals
19.	My Mother	34.	Birds

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,
LONDON AND NEW YORK.