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Show ONE LITTLE KITTEN, ONE LITTLE MATT). One little kitten with a jingling bell. Two little eyes: and dam't you tell! . . Three little bowls of milk up high: Four little leaps by the kitten spry; Five little laps of the yellow cream: Then comes the end of the blissful dream; For one little maid with two little hands: Makes thres little steps to the broom as it stands; Glve-s four little stamps and five little blows. And out of the door the kitten goes. SOME TIME. Last night, my darling, as you slept, I thought I heard you sigh. And to your little crib I crept, And watched a space thereby; And I then stooped and kissed your brow, For, oh! I love you so -You are too young to know it now, But some time you shall know! Some time when, in a darkened place Where others come to weep. Your eyes shall look upon a face Calm in eternal sleep. The voiceless lips, the wrinkled brow, The patient smile shall show You are too young to know it now, But some time you may know! Look backward, then, into the years, And see me here tonis'ht See. Oh. my darling, how my tears Are falling as I write! And feel once more upon your brow The kiss of long ago You are too young to know it now, ! But some time you may know! , EN GENE FEILD. Betty and the Books. "Do you really think there are any fairies, giants1 or goblins?" asked Charley Char-ley of his older sister Betty. "Yes, of course I do." said Betty. "Don't you remember how mother's cake disappeared out of the closet the other day? It was on. the top shelf, too. Now, how could anyone but a fairy go through the keyhole and fly : to the top shelf?" ! "That's so," said Charley, with a gudlty look. "Who but a fairy," he continued, "could have known that mother kept her best fan in the lower drawer of her bureau, and taken it out?" ' . , , i Now it was Betty's turn- to look 'guilt r. "But fairies are good creatures ana ; they never tell on each other," said Betty. "Let's get mamma to read seme fairy tales to " us," said Charley. "You get the book, Betty, and 'I will go and asic mamma." But to Charley's disgust he was carried off to bed, while Betty was ; left to amu?e herself. y - In a bir armchair sa1: the drowsy little girl, turr.irg the leaves cf Grimm's , Fairy Tales and wondering if the |