"
[Illustration: Dog sitting by picnic basket in woods. Two dolls are
lying next to the basket.]
"Rab was such a good dog, mother.
We left him under the big tree by the brook, to take care of the dolls and
the basket.
"When we came back, they were all safe. No one could get them while Rab
was there. We gave him some of the crackers from the basket.
"O mother, how the birds did sing in the woods!
"Fanny said she would like to be a bird, and have a nest in a tree. But I
think she would want to come home to sleep."
"If she were a bird, her nest would be her home. But what would mother do,
I wonder, without her little Fanny?"
LESSON XLVII.
beach shells these seat waves go'ing
ev'er sea watch e'ven ing la'zy side
[Illustration: Horses pulling family in wagon.]
These boys and girls live near the sea. They have been to the beach. It is
now evening, and they are going home.
John, who sits on the front seat, found some pretty shells. They are in
the basket by his side.
Ben White is driving. He holds the lines in one hand, and his whip in the
other.
Robert has his hat in his hand, and is looking at the horses. He thinks
they are very lazy; they do not trot fast.
The children are not far from home. In a little while the sun will set,
and it will be bedtime.
Have you ever been at the seaside? Is it not good sport to watch the big
waves, and to play on the wet sand?
LESSON XLVIII.
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