5. Sympathetic. He looked at Nello with _wistful, sympathetic eyes_. 6. Understanding. He realized that the picture that Nello was drawing was something which meant much to him. 7. Loving. He grieved passionately with Nello at the old man's death. 8. Acute of sense. He discovered the pocket book in the snow. 9. Faithful. He refused to stay in the miller's warm kitchen while Nello was out in the cold. 10. Persistent and patient. He never gave up the search, difficult though it was, until he had found his master. 11. Unselfish. He was happy for himself, but he wept because his master was unhappy. Do you think a dog could have all these qualities, or do you think the author, in her anxiety to have us like the dog, has given him characteristics which he could not really possess? Have you not, yourself, known dogs that were as intelligent, as affectionate and as faithful as Patrasche? ALICE AND PHOEBE CARY _By_ ANNA McCALEB In the writings of Alice and Phoebe Cary are to be found many references which show how fondly they remembered the little brown house in which they were born. This house was on a farm in the Miami Valley in Ohio, eight miles north of Cincinnati. Alice was born April 26th, 1820, and Phoebe, September 24th, 1824, and there was one brother between them. Robert Gary, the father, was a kindly, gentle man, fond of reading, especially romances and poetry. The education for which he had so much longed he had been unable to obtain, and this made him quiet and diffident with strangers, although in his own family he was most loving and most companionable. Even the animals on the farm loved him, and the horses and cattle would follow him about watching for the kindly word and pat, or for the lump of salt or sugar which he was so certain to have for them. This Robert Cary was a descendant of Sir Robert Cary, a famous English knight of the time of Henry V, and Phoebe was always very proud of this ancestry of hers--so proud, in fact, that she had the Gary arms engraved on a seal ring. It would seem that the enthusiastic admiration which the daughters all their life had for their mother was nothing beyond her deserts, for she seems to have been far from an ordinary woman. Despite the fact that she had nine children, and that she did the work for the entire family, she managed to keep up her interest in public affairs, and to read history, essays, biography and politics, as often as books on such subjects came to her hand.