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donkey, so Miss Clare remodeled some of the old 

 ones, substituting " donkey" for "horse," and pro- 

 ceeded in the same manner at game time. 



They enjoyed dramatizing some of ^Esop's Fables, 

 which contained few characters, such as, "The Ass 

 and the Grasshoppers," "Ass in the Lion's Skin," 

 "Ass and the Wolf," "Ass and Frogs," etc. 



They reviewed the Christmas story of the journey 

 to Bethlehem, when Mary's beast was a donkey, 

 and the children brought several little anecdotes 

 from home. 



They made mountains in the sand table before 

 school, and sent long trains of paper donkeys (which 

 they had cut, mounted, and colored) over the narrow 

 passes into the valleys below. They made donkey 

 carts, also, and filled them with loads of gay paper 

 boys and girls, gorgeous vegetables, or shining brass 

 milk cans. 



There were shoes to be cut and sewed and modeled 

 in clay, and the little beast himself, with quite mar- 

 velous results; and when the month closed they 

 agreed with Miss Clare in thinking that the donkey 

 is one of the most useful of our four-footed friends. 



