14. "Now, poor old fellow, I think you will do," said the child. "I could not bear to leave you out this bitter night, and now I must be getting home, for the snow has soaked through my boots."
15. She stopped fondling and stroking the donkey, but he would follow her, rubbing his soft nose against her hand. "Oh, go back again, do, dear Brownie!" she said.
THE OLD SHED.
16. "You really must not come out with me!" Shutting the little gate, which had once been the front door of the pigsty, she ran back to the cottage.
Write: At last the little girl thought of a shed. It was at the end of the garden, and it was a clean place. She put the donkey there and fed him well.
Questions: 1. What thought struck Mercy as she was going back? 2. What sort of shed was it? 3. What did she do for Brownie first? 4. What did she give him to lie on? 5. What did she find for him to eat? 6. What did she give him besides food?
4. A HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
1. But when she came to the back door at which she had come out, Mercy found a great trouble. She lifted the latch, but the door did not open.