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like sand as do the corn-meal cakes made of flint 

 corn in the Eastern States. 



THE SOUTHERN JOHNNY-CAKE 



is really delicious, as Faust's nose told him, so he 

 gamboled up to the side of the little girl with a 

 series of undulating bounds and then without warn- 

 ing he nipped the dimpled hand that held the john- 

 ny-cake. The surprised child gave an indignant 

 scream, dropped the johnny-cake and ran to tell her 

 mother. Faust immediately snatched up the 

 abandoned cake and ran into the dark corner of 

 the cellar to devour it. 



There was a terrace in the back yard which ran 

 up to an elevation of at least twelve feet; this ter- 

 race was covered with a beautiful coat of green 

 grass; to give the foxes a little taste of sunshine, 

 they were taken to the back yard and securely 

 chained to stakes firmly driven into the earth, when 

 their owner returned from school that evening 

 there was a pile of fresh earth on the grass in front 

 of the terrace, but no foxes in sight. They had 

 burrowed to the full length of their chain and were 

 lying on the cool damp earth at the far end of the 

 hole enjoying themselves. 



This disfigurement of the lawn was against all 

 rules and regulations and the boy was held responsi- 

 ble for the misdoings of his pets; so he took a 

 spade, filled up the hole, placed a piece of sod over 

 the spot and raked off the grass; he then secured 

 an old bafrel and placed it in another part of the 



