Show I 1 THE LITTLE ANIMALS b aloysius coll in chicago Record Herald sunday magazine the bay mare stands at my kitchen door and safely ly shakes her head for a bite of apple pinch of salt or a 6 gared crust of bred but oh tor for t the h e little wooden horse I 1 found in a corner to day and the tbs little groont that straddled him and rode him out to play old bover rover naps on the shaded porch while his great brown broan kindy kind eyes follow me to the garden sate gate and back to my bread and pies but 0 oh for the cotton doe dog on wheels that rom romped p d on the velvet floor and the little I 1 t master that shall come and play with him hint no more the panl sh cock a ith the crl arlmon crimson mon comb when he hears my feed ng call he be answers with a flap of wings and a crow from the garden wall but oh for the plas er cock that crowed V ahen hen my baby pressed the pring mv dinv poul fryman that hauled him ro round nd upon a s string tring I 1 love the calves in the pasture lot and the cattle in the barn the geee that squat by jbf th water brou trou trough A and n d ga gabble bie t through the tr t tarn r but oh v when hen the even ven ng g shadow all tall and the ache of the lo 10 ely dark 1 turn to the painted a emals in a little wooden ark and one by one I 1 take them up and ad cudd P them to my breast for the lo 10 e at of the care e ess ss little noab set then here to rest here by the sunny window et eat in a corner of his i room where curious roses el mb and peep and wonder into bloom I 1 have mothered many an orphaned lamb for the taint faint a d fallen ewe and many a downy duck ing housed from the weasel and the dew but now that eve every ry ma mother aher a babe on the ta fa re is e safe afe at rest I 1 turn to the I 1 atle wooden sheep and told old the then n to my breast A 0 oysie r call I 1 ch cago record he herald raid sun bunday yd ay magazine R |