Jean’s Riding Horse 114 “A Farmer Went Trotting” 116 Rabbits The Rabbits 118 Rabbits 119 Little Bunnies 121 My Soldier Rabbits 122 Squirrels The Squirrels and the Gun 126 Some Squirrels I Watched 127 Eating Nuts 129 The Lost Nut 131 The Squirrel’s Arithmetic 133 Whisky Frisky 134 Other Pets Come, My Children 136 A Pet Goat 137 The Sheep 139 Mary’s Lamb 140 The Cow 142 In the Meadow 143 My Father’s Fox 144 The Little Foxes 145 Our Monkey 146 The Monkey and the Hand-Organ Man 147 The Monkey Man 149 Our White Mice 150 A Little Mouse 151 My Uncle’s White Mice 152 The Mice 153 The Two Gold Fishes 154 Aunt Minnie’s Gold Fish 156 Where the Stream Runs Blue 158 Frogs at School 159 About the Book 160 Kindness to Animals Little children, never give Pain to things that feel and live. Let the gentle robin come For the crumbs you save at home. As his meat you throw along, He’ll repay you with a song. Never hurt the timid hare, Peeping from her green grass lair; Let her come and sport and play On the lawn at close of day. The little lark goes soaring high To the bright windows of the sky, Singing as if ’twere always spring And fluttering on an untired wing. Oh! let him sing his happy song, Nor do these gentle creatures wrong. [Illustration: Kids with pets] Our Pets