A BAD NIGHT.
Ba-by Rat sat up in bed. She nudged her moth-er. "I smell cheese!" said she. "Cheese!" cried the moth-er-rat! "that's the worst thing you could say! Stay here, while I look."
The moth-er-rat went to the door. "Ba-by!" she said. Ba-by came. "Jump on my back," she said. Then she gave a great jump, and a-way she went, her child on her back, down-stairs, down and down-stairs, in-to the cel-lar, and off out-doors.
"The thing I jumped o-ver was a TRAP!" she said to her trem-bling child.
THE LIT-TLE SWANS' LESSON.
