258 CHAPIER i WHAT MAY TAUGHT JOHNNY. Ra MELERE were plenty of nice 3 places to walk in where May and Johnny lived ; meadows, and fields, and woods, and one sweet shady spot near a pond, in which very often there were some pretty ducks swimming about. It was quite a little pond, though, and not deep; or the children would never have been allowed to go near it, for fear they should be drowned.