IDA FAY. [Illustration] FLOWERS FOR MAMMA. OUR readers will remember a picture of this same little girl as she was taking her doll to ride. While Dolly was taking her nap, Grace ran into the garden again. She flitted about among the flowers, as busy as a bee, for a few minutes. Then she came running into the house. The picture shows what she brought back to her mamma. JANE OLIVER. [Illustration] HAMMOCK SONG. HEIGH-HO, to and fro! How the merry breezes blow! Blue skies, blue eyes, Baby, bees, and butterflies, Daisies growing everywhere, Breath of roses in the air! Dollie Dimple, swing away, Baby darling, at your play. MARY D. BRINE. OUTWITTED. ONE fine summer day a very hungry fox sallied out in search of his dinner. After a while his eye rested on a young rooster, which he thought would make a very good meal: so he lay down under a wall and hid himself in the high grass, intending to wait until the rooster got near enough, and then to spring on him, and carry him off. Suddenly, however, the rooster saw him and flew, in a great fright, to the top of the wall. The fox could not get him there, and he knew it: so he came out from his hiding-place, and addressed the rooster thus: "Dear me!" he cried, "how handsomely you are dressed! I came to invite your magnificence to a grand christening feast. The duck and the goose have promised to come, and the turkey, though slightly ill, will try to come also. [Illustration] "You see that only those of rank are bidden to this feast, and we beg you to adorn it with your splendid talent for music. We are to have the most delicate little cock-chafers served up on toast, a delicious salad of earthworms, in fact all manner of good things. Will you not return then with me to my house?" "Oh ho!" said the rooster, "how kind you are! What fine stories you tell! Still I think it safest to decline your kind invitation. I am sorry not to go to that splendid feast; but I cannot leave my wife, for she is sitting on seven new eggs. Good-by! I hope you will relish those earthworms. Don't come too near me, or I will crow for the dogs. Good-by!" LEONORA, from the German. [Illustration] ROSIE AND THE PIGS. ROSIE was breakfasting out on the grass When two pigs, on a walking tour, happened to pass. One pig, with rude manners, came boldly in front, And first gave a stare, and then gave a grunt, As much as to say, "What is that you have got? Just give us a taste, my dear, out of your pot!" T. [Illustration] ZIP COON. DID you ever see a raccoon? I am going to tell you about one that was sent from the South as a present to a lady whose name was Isabella. He was called Zip Coon, and a very wise coon he was.