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the same care that she had done the ducklings. When, how-
ever, the young cocks began to try their voices, their nurse
- was as much annoyed as she had been by the ducks going
into the water, and she always did her best to stop their
crowing.

You will never want objects on which to spend your
kind feelings. “The poor you have always with you.” You
must not be cast down or displeased if they persist in follow-
ing a different course from that which you think the best.
How often, when a baby, have you cried loudly when your
mother or your nurse wished you to be silent; and, as you
grew older, how often did you run into danger when they
called after you! Through life remember that terrier, and,
like her, always be kind to those in need.

 

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HUMANE SOCIETY.

ONCE there was a great storm, by which a ship was driven
on the shore. ‘The sailors could not get her off again, and it
was plain to all that she would soon be broken in pieces by
the waves. The sailors were in danger of being drowned.
The people on shore saw their danger; but they could not
do anything to help them, for no boat could get near the
wreck.

The sailors had a great Newfoundland dog with them in
the ship. They put a rope in the dog’s mouth, and told him
to carry it to the shore. The dog knew what they meant,
and jumped into the water. He had hard work to swim, for