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WISE SNOW-DROP AND SILLY BILLY. 



you like eggs? " she asked. " Because here is one. It is all my 

 own, and you may have it." 



"You precious dear!" cried the woman; "you have a good heart, 

 like your mamma. I am very thankful indeed for the egg." 



Mrs. Long v/as much pleased by Emma's kind conduct. So 

 was Hoppy I fancy, for she laid a much finer egg the very next day. 



WISE SNOW-DROP AND SILLY BILLY. 



Little Davie Morgan lived in North Wales. His father kept a 

 great many goats. They used to climb up and down those high, 

 rocky mountains, and leap from crag to crag, where no other animal 

 would dare to go. 



On Davie's sixth birthday his father brought down from the 

 mountain a pair of twin kids for his birthday present. 



One of them Avas pure Avhite with buff ears, and Davie named her 

 "Snow-drop." The other, a beautiful gray shaded with black, he 

 called "Billy,"' after his older brother. They were to be Davie's own 

 pets; and he did pet and feed them so that they soon grew fat and 

 saucy. Billy, I have no doubt, really loved his pretty twin-sister, 

 "Snow-drop;" but he delighted to tease her whenever he had a 

 chance. 



In Wales there are a great many mountain streams, narrow but 

 deep, that go dashing over their rocky beds, making foamy water- 

 falls and dark pools, where the speckled trout play " hide-and-seek" 

 on sunny days. 



The only foot-bridge over some of these streams is a plank, or a 



