there.

3. He looked so sad that they begged their mother to give him some food.
Then they said: 'We can't turn him out again to be hungry and lonely!
Let us keep him till some one comes for him.' And very soon all three
were happy at play in the garden.

4. The cat sat up on a window-sill, and looked at them. She did not seem
to like the fun. What a noise they all made!

5. 'How much nicer he is to play with than pussy!' said Dora. 'He is not
nearly so lazy as pussy.

6. 'Look, he is wagging his tail with joy! Now, if pussy wags her tail,
it means that she is cross. But I think I like her round face better
than his sharp one.'

7. 'I don't,' said Harry. 'See how bright he is, and how he looks as if
he would like to do something for us!'

8. 'That is because we have been kind to him. Hi, good dog!' and Dora
threw her ball to the very end of the garden, and watched her new friend
run after it.

9. 'Do you think, Harry,' she asked, 'that he would save us if we were
buried in the snow?'

[Illustration: St Bernard Dog.]

'No, he is not a dog of that kind, and is not big enough. The big St