would let down the bars with her teeth, and lead her three trusting companions
into the grain field. There they would be found in the morning, while she had
returned to the barn before the boys were up. She had such an innocent look
when she had been on these excursions that it would call forth one’s admira-_
tion. When I rode her to bring back the colts she seemed to know what we
were after. She would go quite direct to where those wicked colts could be
found, and we would chase them home in a hurry.

One night a mysterious noise was heard at the barn. Horse-thieves were
not unknown, and, as we had the best horses in the neighborhood, great anxiety
was felt. Father drew himself softly out of his warm bed. Revolver in hand,
he went carefully and quietly out of the house, followed by a courageous bull-
dog.

You can imagine his astonishment when, instead of finding horse-thieves,
he found Juliette standing with the raised pump-handle in her mouth trying to
pump water, while the three colts, with unbounded confidence in her ability,

stood at the trough watching her with expectant eyes.
—CHILION B, ALLEN,

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°/HESTNUTS are ripe—. Chestnuts are ripe—

 
 

Are ripe, and now from the prickly | Are ripe, and now when berries are few
burr The brown nuts fall,
The brown nuts fall, And here,
And bound With a cheer,
To the ground From far and near, |
With a twinkling sound, In the sparkling sun the boys appear
Where the woodlawn folk are camped around, At the end of the pasture wall;
At the end of the pasture wall, Bitten with brambles, washed in dew,
With tonguesthat chatter and wingsthat whir, Ruddy and brown, a barefoot crew,
Birds in feathers and hearts in fur— Each with his sack
Squirrel and jay, Like a peddler’s pack,
And chipmunk gay— They climb, and shake, and cudgel, and
They scrape, and scamper, and scold and play. thwack,
While the little white worm in the midst of | But the little white worm in the midst of the
the storm storm

Grows fat on his diet and laughs at them all. Feasts on the kernel and laughs at them all.

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