Part 6 (1/2)

The Whale was so pleased with the compliment that he said, ”Yes,” at once

”Then,” said the Rabbit, ”I will tie this end ofrope to you, and I will run away and tie the other end rounddrum When you hear that, pull very, very hard, for the cow is stuck very deep in the runted the Whale, ”I'll pull her out, if she is stuck to the horns”

Little Brother Rabbit tied the rope-end to the whale, and ran off, lippety, lippety, till he cahty and kindly Elephant,” he said,a very loill you do me a favor?”

”What is it?” asked the Elephant

”My cow is stuck in the mud, about a quarter of a mile from here,” said little Brother Rabbit, ”and I cannot pull her out Of course you could If you will be so very obliging as to help randly, ”certainly”

”Then,” said little Brother Rabbit, ”I will tie one end of this long rope to your trunk, and the other to htly I will beatdrum When you hear that, pull; pull as hard as you can, for my cow is very heavy”

”Never fear,” said the Elephant, ”I could pull twenty cows”

”I am sure you could,” said the Rabbit, politely, ”only be sure to begin gently, and pull harder and harder till you get her”

Then he tied the end of the rope tightly round the Elephant's trunk, and ran away into the bushes There he sat down and beat the big druan to pull, and in a jiffy the rope tightened till it was stretched as hard as could be

”This is a remarkably heavy cow,” said the Elephant; ”but I'll fetch her!” And he braced his forefeet in the earth, and gave a tremendous pull

”Dear ht;” and he drove his tail deep in the water, and gave a marvelous pull

He pulled harder; the Elephant pulled harder Pretty soon the Whale found hi toward the land The reason was, of course, that the Elephant had soainst, and, too, as fast as he pulled the rope in a little, he took a turn with it round his trunk!

But when the Whale found hi toward the land he was so provoked with the cow that he dove head first, down to the bottom of the sea That was a pull! The Elephant was jerked off his feet, and ca to the beach, and into the surf He was terribly angry He braced hiht, and pulled his best At the jerk, up came?” trumpeted the Elephant

And then each saw the rope in the other's hold

”I'll teach you to play cow!” roared the Elephant

”I'll show you how to fool ain But this time the rope broke, the Whale turned a somersault, and the Elephant fell over backwards

At that, they were both so ashamed that neither would speak to the other So that broke up the bargain between thehed, and laughed, and laughed

THE LITTLE HALF-CHICK

There was once upon a time a Spanish Hen, who hatched out some nice little chickens She was much pleased with their looks as they came from the shell One, two, three, came out plump and fluffy; but when the fourth shell broke, out ca and one eye! It was just half a chicken

The Hen-mother did not knohat in the world to do with the queer little Half-Chick She was afraid so would happen to it, and she tried hard to protect it and keep it from harm But as soon as it could walk the little Half-Chick showed aspirit, worse than any of its brothers It would not o wherever it wanted to; it walked with a funny little hoppity-kick, hoppity-kick, and got along pretty fast