The dog stood up on his hind legs and said: “I have come to take you to Beastland.”
Then he took a rope out of a bag he carried, and tied poor Benny hand and foot. Throwing him across his back he went out of the window, out of the yard and way off up the side of a mountain. At last they came to a land where there was nothing but animals and they were all talking about boys and girls.
The big dog who carried Benny took him to the Court House and brought him before Judge Lion and a jury of cats and dogs. He was to be tried for cruelty. There were ever so many witnesses against poor Benny. All the dogs he had stoned; all the cats he had chased; all the birds he had killed rose up against him. Finally Judge Lion said: “Tie a tin can to him and chase him through town.” Then the big dog tied an old tin can to Benny’s foot, and all the dogs and animals ran him and ran him, and barked and snapped until he was chased out of Beastland and right into his little bed. He woke up with a start and exclaimed:
“My! But that was an awful feeling!” But he was kind to all animals ever afterwards.
A SUNSHINE FAIRY
He who takes sunshine into the lives of others also lets it into his own life.
Alice was in the garden gathering roses for her mother. The day was warm and the sun very bright, so she sat down under a tree to rest, exclaiming: “Oh, if there were only such things as fairies! I wish I were one, for I would like to do nothing but play. I’m so tired of working and going to school!”