THE OLD MAN AND THE CARRION CROW,....Mary Howitt, 85 THE SPIDER'S SONG,.............From the Danish of Oehlenschlager,.89 THE FROG AND THE OX,....Translated from La Fontaine's Fables,.148 THE RAGGED GIRL'S SUNDAY,............Mary Bennett,.... THE WOLF AND THE MASTIFF,..Translated from La Fontaine's Fables,151 JOVE AND THE ANIMALS,... Translated from La Fontaine's Fables, 183 THE ROBIN REDBREASTS' CHORUS,.......... .C. A. M. W.,..............184 .188 ..Leitch Ritchie,............194 THE BLOOMING OF VIOLETS,....Rev. James Gilborne Lyons, LL.D.,.193 TO MY GODCHILD, ALICE,....Author of 'John Halifax, Gentleman,'.195 COME, Rover! Ah, yes, by your tail wagging fast, Of our supper we're ready to give you a taste, Though I know you're not hungry-not very, that is- That each animal kept in a dwelling of his Should have all that its nature requires. 10 A LITTLE GIRL'S PLEA FOR KINDNESS TO ANIMALS. 2. And the crumbs from our breakfast we scatter abroad, When the fruit-trees are bending beneath a rich load, If they do peck our peaches, and sometimes devour 3. We call the fruit ours-but for my part I feel, The laws that to us the great Being has given, These have not been promised a future in Heaven, 4. They have but the Present—a good reason too, And then they're so grateful when kindness is shewn, Oh, brother, how hard must a young heart have grown 5. How strange is the instinct that never goes wrong, An instinct that wise men have reckoned among |