142 A Great Fright.

 

But Johnny liked a great many
sorts of animals, and of birds, too.
He thought a great deal about birds
after that story that May read to
him, and made a great many plans
about defending the little ones
against their enemies, the weasels,
and against those great cats that he
well knew were always on the look-
out for the dear little birds, or for
their mothers either.

Indeed, when he was a great man,
he purposed to do something really
noble for the defence of these help-
less creatures.

But we were talking about dogs,
and Johnny’s fancy for them all.
He had not yet met with an unkind