"Yes; and it will please grandma to know that you thought of her."


[Illustration: Dog sitting by picnic basket in woods. Two dolls are
lying next to the basket.]


"Rab was such a good dog, mother.

We left him under the big tree by the brook, to take care of the dolls and
the basket.

"When we came back, they were all safe. No one could get them while Rab
was there. We gave him some of the crackers from the basket.

"O mother, how the birds did sing in the woods!

"Fanny said she would like to be a bird, and have a nest in a tree. But I
think she would want to come home to sleep."

"If she were a bird, her nest would be her home. But what would mother do,
I wonder, without her little Fanny?"



LESSON XLVII.

beach shells these seat waves go'ing

ev'er sea watch e'ven ing la'zy side