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COWs AND CALVES.

which 1s really quite excusable in the cir- cumstances.

We have found a delightful study of animals—apparently cows and calves in a shed. Observe their picrcing cyes, all turned upon the astonished spectator. This may mean fury, or it muyv mean blind- ness, or soncthing clse, but it looks most like hunger. The shed 15 built upoti the trunks of four trees which have failed in their legitimate business, after growing, with great considcration, cxactly at the four corners of a rectangle. Only the roof and two sides of the building have been built (what of 15 doubt- ful), i order that the stock may starc at us from the other sides.

Of course, some of grandfather’s picture-books were books of fables

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HERCULES AND THE WAGGONER.

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—.Isop’syand translations and abridgments of La Fontaine's. We are able to find room for two 1llustrations trom onc of these books. Ifirst we have ** Hercules and the Waggoner.” Three rather small horzes, driven tandem tfashion, have succeeded in fixing a very long, Tow- tilted wageon 1 a ditch., The wag- goner,who may possibly be completely dressed, and wcearing a smock, but whose costume looks uncommonly like a shirt and nothing clse, calls on Hercules to overcome the dithculty for him ; although presumably there must be people at hand 1 the very extra- ordinary houscs just over the bridge. Hercules, who doesn't look quite s welr as when we last saw him, and 1s reduced to a most insignificant club, appcears

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THE SUEPHERD AND ‘I'tiE WOLVES,

on one of those feather-bed clouds usually employed on similar occa- sions. Tospeak more exactly, he appears to be shipping off, and threatening serious damage to the root just beiow him. Hercules, 1t will be observed, was a very large person, as one might expect. Then there 1s the shepherd bov who cricd “Wolf!” There are four animals in the picture, and anyvbody can sce at once which 1s the wolf, because he 1s biting the countenance of one of the others, which lies on the ground 5 other- wi-c it would be dithcult. The shepherd seems to be rather en- joying the fun, to judge by the gratificd look on his face, and the gladsome expressions ot his legs

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