WILLIE AND THE TREEDEEDLE.

“Tm coming to see you, Willie,” said the Mud Turtle.

“That will be nice,” said Willie. “I will show you my playhouse.”

“Oh! TIl come, too,” said the Owl.

“And I,” said the Black Pussy Cat.

“Can't I come, too?” cried the Blue Butterfly.

“And I?” asked the Grasshopper.

“T am coming,” said the Robin.

“Tm coming, too,” croaked the Bull-frog.

“ All right,” said Willie; “ perhaps my mamma will let me have a birthday
party and invite you all.”

“Hurrah! hurrah! We are all going to Willie’s birthday party!” cried
everybody.

Then the Black Pussy Cat and the Treedeedle climbed into the balloon and
pulled Willie in after them, and very soon they stopped at Willie’s front gate
and let him out.

“Good-by! Ive had a beautiful time,” said Willie, “and now I am going
in to tell my mamma all about it.”

Agnes Blackwell.

 

 

NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS.