"What have you been doing?"
"Oh, I've been helping mow the hay," said Howard. "Why, I sat on Mr. Hayseed's lap and drove the horses that pulled the mower for two hours."
A LITTLE GIRL'S TRIBUTE.
"Mollie," said Mr. Hicks to his little daughter, as he sat down in the farm-house, "whom do you love best in all the world?"
"Mrs. Farmer," said Mollie. "Because, you know, at home, papa, I love mamma very much and cook very much, and here Mrs. Farmer is sort of both."
A WINDY-DAY THOUGHT.
"The wind's a fast reader,"
Said Tommy; "just look
How the breeze turns over
The leaves of my book!"