Part 30 (1/2)

[Ill.u.s.tration: THEY RAN HOME AS FAST AS THEY COULD GO.]

THE LITTLE KITTENS' SURPRISE

[Ill.u.s.tration: I. ”NOW KITTIES, LIE DOWN AND GO TO SLEEP.”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: II. ”WHAT'S THAT NOISE? SEE! A MOUSE TAIL!”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: III. THEY MAKE A DASH FOR THE DOOR, AND--]

[Ill.u.s.tration: BEGIN TO PULL.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: NOW, ”ALL TOGETHER!”--]

[Ill.u.s.tration: BUT THIS IS WHAT IT WAS.]

TED'S FOOLISH WISH

”I WISH I WAS AN OWL”

SAID TEDDY, WITH A SCOWL, ”CAUSE THEN I COULD SIT UP THE WHOLE NIGHT THROUGH.”

BUT SOME FAIRIES HEARD HIM SCOLD, AND HERE YOU MAY BEHOLD

[Ill.u.s.tration: HOW THEY]

[Ill.u.s.tration: MADE THAT]

[Ill.u.s.tration: AWFUL WISH]

[Ill.u.s.tration: COME TRUE!]

CHARLES FITCH LESTER

Nonsense Rhyme.

from the Negro quarters

Jay-bird a-sittin' on a Hickory limb.

He winked at me, I winked at him.

'Taint gwine to rain no mo'.

Hawk and Buzzard went to law; Hawk fell down and broke his jaw.

'Taint gwine to rain no mo'.

Oh, de Wren and de Thrush go clackety-clack, Dey bofe talk at once an dey bofe talk back, Dey say: ”Jim Crow, my but you =is= black!”

'Taint gwine to rain no mo'.