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“THE TWO FUNNY LITTLE TROTS.” 207

him “beg,” “lie dead,” like Mother Hubbard’s.
immortal pet, and do everything a well-educated.
dog could be expected to do. And, oh, how
funny it was to watch the trots! Evidently
they had never seen anything of the kind
before ; they stared at first as if they could
hardly believe their eyes, and then they smiled,
and at /ast they laughed. How prettily they
laughed! They looked more like two fat.
cherubs than ever.

  

But their laughing attracted their maid’s.

  

attention. She too turned round; and I was.

  

pleased to see that she had a pleasant, pretty
young face. “I shouldn’t have liked those-
dear trots to have a cross old nurse,” I said.
to myself ; and the maid still further raised her-.
self in my good opinion by laughing and smil-
ing too. In a minute or two, when she thought
“that was enough for to-day,” she stooped and
whispered to the trots. They immediately
lifted their little hands, the right of one, the.
left of the other,—for nothing, you see, could
have persuaded them to let go of their precious.