"Sam let the big boy try his top."—[P. 29.]
"Yes, my son, but do not go into the old hut."
"Oh! no, mam-ma," Sam did say; and out he ran in the air.
By and by, a big boy did run up to him and say: "Sam, let me try the top? oh! do."
Sam let the big boy try, and, O my! how the top did go! and did hum, hum, hum so, Sam did say it was a big bee.
But, oh! sad to say, the big boy did let the top fly off in-to the hut; and Sam did not do as he was bid, for he ran in to get it.
He saw an ax in the hut.
"Oh! see the ax," Sam did say, "I can try it on the old log, out in the lot; yes, I can see if it can cut."
Was he not a bad boy to say so? for his mam-ma did say to him one day: "You are but a bit of a boy; so you can not do as a big man can do. Do not get the ax; if you do, you may cut off a leg or an arm, and you may die; so do not go to the hut at all, and to-day, too, she did say: "Do not go to the hut."