length of my coat. My waist and arms I measured myself. When my clothes were finished they looked like patchwork that ladies in our country sometimes make; but they were all of the same color.

I had three hundred cooks to get my meals. They s lived in little huts around my house, and each brought me two dishes of food, morning, noon, and night. I had a hundred and twenty waiters. I took up twenty of these in my hand and set them on my table. The rest stayed on the ground, and brought the food in 10 barrels and boxes and hampers. All of these things the waiters on the table drew up by means of ropes, just as people sometimes draw up water from a well. A dish of their meat made a fair mouthful for me. I once had a sirloin steak so large that I took three is bites at it; but that must have been taken from a very large beef. I could eat a goose or a turkey at one mouthful; and of their young chickens I could take up a dozen on the end of my knife.

1. What is there "funny" in this selection? Do you enjoy it as much as some of the other pieces?

THE GARDENER'S SONG

BY LEWIS CARROLL

The author of these verses wrote one book that you should know about. It is Alice in Wonderland. Read it when you can.

E thought he saw an Elephant,

HE

That practiced on a fife:

He looked again, and found it was

A letter from his wife.

"At length I realize," he said,
"The bitterness of life!"

ΤΟ

He thought he saw a Rattlesnake
That questioned him in Greek:
He looked again, and found it was
The Middle of Next Week.
"The one thing I regret," he said,
"Is that it cannot speak!"

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He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk
Descending from the "bus:

He looked again, and found it was

A Hippopotamus.

"If this should stay to dine," he said,
"There won't be much for us!"

C

BY CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL

ANARY birds feed on sugar and seed,

Parrots have crackers to crunch;

And as for the poodles, they tell me the noodles
Have chickens and cream for their lunch.

But there's never a question

About MY digestion

ANYTHING does for me!

"Cats, you're aware, can repose in a chair,

Chickens can roost upon rails;

Puppies are able to sleep in a stable,

And oysters can slumber in pails.

But no one supposes

A poor Camel dozes

ANY PLACE does for me!

ΤΟ

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"Lambs are inclosed where it's never exposed,

Coops are constructed for hens;

Kittens are treated to houses well heated,

And pigs are protected by pens.

But a Camel comes handy

Wherever it's sandy

ANYWHERE does for me!

"People would laugh if you rode a giraffe,
Or mounted the back of an ox,

It's nobody's habit to ride on a rabbit,
Or try to bestraddle a fox.

But as for a Camel, he's

Ridden by families —

ANY LOAD does for me!

"A snake is as round as a hole in the ground, And weasels are wavy and sleek;

And no alligator could ever be straighter

Than lizards that live in a creek.

But a Camel's all lumpy

And bumpy and humpy -
ANY SHAPE does for me!"

THE

BY HENRY JOHNSTONE

HERE was a snake that dwelt in Skye
Over the misty sea, oh;

He lived upon nothing but gooseberry pie

For breakfast, dinner, and tea, oh.

Now gooseberry pie

as is

Over the misty sea, oh,

very well known ·

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Is not to be found under every stone,

Nor yet upon every tree, oh.

And being so ill to please with his meat,
Over the misty sea, oh,

ΤΟ

The snake had sometimes nothing to eat,

And an angry snake was he, oh.

Then he'd flick his tongue and his head he'd shake, Over the misty sea, oh,

Crying, "Gooseberry pie! For goodness' sake

Some gooseberry pie for me, oh!"

And if gooseberry pie was not to be had,

Over the misty sea, oh,

He'd twine and twist like an eel gone mad,

Or a worm just stung by a bee, oh,

But though he might shout and wriggle about,
Over the misty sea, oh,

The snake had often to go without

His breakfast, dirner, and tea, oh.