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HOW THE DANDELIONS GROW.
How do they grow? Why, little sprites
Pop up from the ground on starry nights;
One, with a candle, sits aloft,
Another rakes till all is soft;
Then one little elf a bellows wields;
He scatters the seed o'er dewy fields.
And now, small people, you surely know
The way that the dandelions grow.
A DOG WHO LIKED CATS.
Poodles are, in some respects, the most intelligent of all species of dogs. This is the reason why the performing dogs who are taught to do all sorts of curious tricks are almost always poodles. There was a lady who owned a large poodle which was very fond of walking with her. Every day at about ten o'clock he would find the articles of dress that he thought she ought to wear out-of-doors, and would bring them to her, and bark loudly until she would put them on. He always insisted that she should wear rubber overshoes, no matter what the weather might be, but he never brought her an umbrella except when it rained. It was very nice in him to wait on his mistress; but sometimes, when he would drag her best bonnet by one string down stairs and through the whole house until he found her, she would not remember to thank him as heartily as he imagined that he deserved.