gallop, but he could catch the train. So Moti Guj was at the planter's door almost before Chihun noticed that he had left his pickets. He fell into Deesa's arms, trumpeting with joy, and the man and beast wept and slobbered over each other, and handled. each other from head to heel to see that no harm had befallen. "Now we will get to work" said Deesa. "Lift me up, my son and my joy!"

Moti Guj swung him up, and the two went to the coffeelearing to look for difficult stumps.

The planter was too astonished to be very angry.

Biography. Rudyard Kipling (1865

) was born in Bombay, India, f British parents. He was sent to England for most of his education, but t the age of seventeen he returned to India to work as a journalist. Very on he began to write tales of the life about him, as well as poems dealg with British officials and soldiers in India. By the time he was wenty-four he had won fame with his Plain Tales from the Hills and her short stories; and when he published Barrack Room Ballads, in 92, he was widely recognized as a great poet. From 1892 to 1896 he ed in the United States. Perhaps he is best known to boys and girls the author of the Jungle Books. He is a master of the art of telling ries, either in prose or verse.

Discussion. 1. Read all that tells you of the time and place in which s mutiny occurred. 2. Read all that gives you a picture of life on the aring. 3. Who is the principal character in the story? 4. What caused mutiny? 5. What ended it? 6. What is the most interesting point in story? 7. Read parts that convince you that Kipling knows the chareristics of the elephant. 8. Find instances where he exaggerates the elligence of the elephant, giving it human characteristics. 9. Does this to or take from the interest of the story? 10. On page 20 you read t a close acquaintance with Nature makes us see our kinship with nals; do the instances you find show companionship between Deesa the elephant? 11. Read parts in which humor is shown in dialogue ncident. 12. Tell in your own words the main incident. 13. What do like about this story? 14. Tell what you know of the author. 15. 1 in the Glossary the meaning of: dissipated; congested; devastatinspiration; delectable; caste; inalienable; demoralized; soliloquy; 16. Pronounce: therefore; orgy; adieu; amateur; deign.

Your interest in the various authors, aroused by reading their stories or poems in this volume, may make you wish to know more of their works; or your interest in the subjects they discuss may make you wish to extend your knowledge along these lines through directed library reading. For example, your interest in "Moti Guj-Mutineer" may lead you to read other elephant stories, particularly those by Kipling, such as "Toomai of the Elephants" in The Jungle Book.

You will do your class and yourself a real service by planning an orderly oral or written report, giving all the boys and girls the benefit of your individual reading. Your classmates will enjoy hearing you review in an interesting way a favorite book or a particular story in a book, giving the title, the author, the time and scene, the principal characters, and a brief outline of the story, reading such selected passages from it as you think will give your classmates most pleasure.

The public library is the source to which you will go for additional reading and reference material. In order to learn how to use, intelligently and effectively, the public library, or your school library, ask the librarian to explain to you the card catalogue system and the arrangement of the books on the shelves. Locate in your library the American and the English Who's Who, the sets of encyclopedias, and the dictionaries, so that you may be independent in looking up biographical and historical facts, or other information.

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Wearing a bright, black wedding coat;

White are his shoulders, and white his crest. Hear him call in his merry note:

"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,

Spink, spank, spink;

Look what a nice new coat is mine;

Sure, there was never a bird so fine.

Chee, chee, chee!"

Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife,

Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings, Passing at home a patient life,

Broods in the grass while her husband sings: "Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,

Spink, spank, spink;

Brood, kind creature; you need not fear

Thieves and robbers while I am here.

Chee, chee, chee!”

10 Modest and shy as a nun is she;
One weak chirp is her only note;
Braggart, and prince of braggarts is he,
Pouring boasts from his little throat:
"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,

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Spink, spank, spink;

Never was I afraid of man,

Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can.
Chee, chee, chee!"

Six white eggs on a bed of hay,

Flecked with purple, a pretty sight,
There, as the mother sits all day,

Robert is singing with all his might:
"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,

Spink, spank, spink;

25 Nice good wife that never goes out, Keeping house while I frolic about. Chee, chee, chee!”

Soon as the little ones chip the shell,
Six wide mouths are open for food;
80 Robert of Lincoln bestirs him well,
Gathering seeds for the hungry brood.