An endeavor has been made to present the pleasant side of animal life. To this end the affection, the intelligence, and the uses of our servants and friends have been dwelt upon, and ideas of violence have received but a passing notice. That we should be kind to animals is a necessary inference from observed relations, and this obviates the necessity of a formal exhortation or a cut-and-dried moral.

As a reader, this book is designed to supplement the regular reader of the grade. Common and familiar language is used, but no effort has been made to reduce the expressions to baby-talk, or to construct halting sentences with words of three or four letters only.

CONTENTS.

LESSONPAGE
The Cat and the Fiddle[9]
Mother Hubbard and her Dog[10]
I.What the Cat Does[11]
II.The Grateful Cat[13]
III.What the Cat Wears[15]
Who Stole the Apples?[17]
IV.Patch and the Mouse[18]
Tommy and the Chickens[20]
V.How the Cat Moves[21]
VI.Daisy and her Plays[23]
VII.How the Cat Eats[25]
VIII.Old Tom and the Eagle[27]
IX.How the Cat Sees[29]
X.Miss Muffet and Fluffy[31]
Fluffy and the Mouse[33]
XI.How Dogs Behave[35]
XII.How Nero Saved his Master[37]
XIII.How Dogs Look[39]
XIV.How Mungo Did[41]
XV.How Dogs Use their Feet[43]
XVI.The Dog and the Shadow—A Fable[45]
The Boot-black and his Dog[46]
XVII.How Dogs Use their Jaws[47]
XVIII.Lupo and Tiny[49]
XIX.How Dogs See and Smell[51]
XX.Puff and the Baby[53]
Puff and the Rat[55]
XXI.How the Horse Looks[57]
XXII.The Horse and his Friends[59]
XXIII.How the Horse Eats[61]
XXIV.How the Pony got Shod[63]
XXV.What the Horse Does[65]
XXVI.What the Horse can Do[67]
XXVII.How the Horse should be Treated[69]
XXVIII.How the Donkey Looks[73]
XXIX.What the Donkey Does[75]
XXX.What the Donkey can Do[77]
Strange Doings[79]
XXXI.How the Cow Looks[81]
XXXII.What Cattle Do[83]
XXXIII.What Cattle are Good for[85]
XXXIV.How the Sheep Looks and Lives[87]
XXXV.The Ways of the Sheep[89]
XXXVI.About Goats[91]
XXXVII.About Pigs[93]
The Little Piggie Wig[95]

THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE.

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