Oh, doggy, you must promise (And mind your word you keep), Not once to tease the little lambs, Or run among the sheep; And then the little yellow chicks That play upon the grass, You must not even wag your tail To scare them as you pass. [Illustration: Mother dog with rabbits] A Queer Mother Dog I live on a farm, and own a dog named Happy. One summer day I missed Happy. I looked for her near the farmhouse, but could not find her. Then I went out into the field. Suddenly I came upon Happy. I was so surprised when I found her. She was playing “Mother.” Guess who her children were! They were not little puppies at all. They were little rabbits. I do not know where the mother rabbit was. I never saw her. But every day Happy would go into the field. She watched to see that no harm should come to the little rabbits. One day I heard Happy barking in the field. When I came near, I found that she was barking because the rabbits had disappeared. Happy missed them very much, and for many days she seemed lonesome without her baby rabbits. Now, was not Happy a queer mother dog? One Little Dog Four little doggies sit in a row— Bow-wow, bow-wow-wow, all of them go. Three little dogs can add to the fun, Two little dogs are better than one, But one little dog is better than none. Spot When I go to school, my dog Spot follows me. I try to get him to go back home. I say to him, “Spot, go home!” But he wants to say “Good-by” to me. He lifts his paw as if he wished to shake hands and say “Good-by.” I shake his paw and then Spot goes home. When he sees my mother, he barks. I think he wants to tell my mother that I have gone to school. When my sister and I come home from school, Spot is so glad that he runs to meet us. When my father comes home, Spot says “Bow, wow!” That is his way of saying “Hello.” A Loving Friend Ah! doggy, don’t you think That you should very faithful be, For having such a loving friend To comfort you as me? And when the school is over, And we can run and play, We’ll have a scamper in the fields And see them making hay. [Illustration: Dog and frog] The Dog and the Frog One day my dog Jip went out into the garden. A frog came into the garden, too. Jip had never seen a frog. Perhaps the frog had never seen a dog. So Jip and the frog were both surprised. Of course the frog was much smaller than Jip. I thought that the frog would be frightened. But he didn’t seem to be. He just looked at Jip and blinked his eyes. Jip looked at the frog, too. He really wanted to touch the frog. But Jip was afraid of the little frog, and ran back to the house. I didn’t believe that Jip would be such a coward. I was ashamed of him.