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SLEIGHING SONG

FOOD FOR HER LITTLE ONES

A BUSY STREET

THE NEW DOLL'S CARRIAGE

JOSIE'S FRIEND

A TRUE STORY

BUTTERFLY WISDOM

MR. MONKEY

A TRUE STORY

JAMIE

MOTHER'S CHILDREN

VICTOR

GRANDMOTHER'S HOME

GRANDMOTHER'S STORY

CHEER UP!

CHILDREN'S WORK

EGGS IN THE HAY MOW

THE LOST SKATES

NO JOKE AT ALL

WINTER HOLIDAYS

WHEN I GROW UP

THE TEA PARTY

TOMMY THE TEASE

THE YOUNG LAMB

TROTTY'S LESSON

RUTH

MISCHIEVOUS BABY

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Over the lofty peaks of many of the mountains of Europe a magnificent bird may occasionally be seen flying, while down in the valley, two thousand feet or more below, a hen may be scratching worms for her dinner, or a young lamb gamboling over the sweet meadow grass.

From that enormous height, even, the keen eyes of the eagle can detect the movement of either, and she flies, or rather drops, straight down upon the poor fowl, and with her powerful foot kills it at a blow, or breaks the back of the pretty lamb with same terrible weapon. Then, she rises upward with her prey, to feed the little ones she has left in the nest.

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"But, my dear," I said, "you live in Newport, and you have only seen her in the cars. She probably lives in Boston. Come, auntie is hunting for us."

Josie had a fine time at auntie's, and her cousin Bess for a while filled completely the position of friend. But the week over, and we were aboard the train for Newport; and Josie's mind was again filled with the all-engrossing subject of—a friend.

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