“Well, I think I must treat the whole party, as all did their best. We will set a trap to-day for the next opossum that may come to see us.”
The boys and Melissa went to the circus, and enjoyed all they saw, and Melissa had a fine opossum stew into the bargain.
PINK HUNTER.
Virginia.
HOW ROY WENT A FISHING.
Roy had fished in the ditch by the side of the road a great many times; but he had only a bent pin for a fish-hook, and a piece of twine for a line. He never caught any fish there.
When he was six years old his uncle James gave him a real fish-hook and a line, and after a good deal of coaxing his mother said that he might go down the cow-path to the brook and fish for trout.
Uncle James caught a great many trout in the brook.
Alice wanted to go with Roy; and Roy, who is very kind to his sister, asked his mother to let her go.