186 May's Present.

from mammy’s hassock, while May
told him stories about boys and
horses.

He liked the stories about horses
best of all; for Johnny loved horses,
and meant to have one himself when
he should be a big, grown-up man !

May did not think then how soon
that brother of hers might take to
risking more serious falls than that
into the tiny rill, when his short, fat
legs have grown longer and_ less
stout. At present, she was just bent
on making a bold, brave boy of him,
and delighted to see him so merry
after that bit of a tumble.

For, indeed, this scrap of a Johnny
filled a great part of May May’s