GHUGKY AND HIS PICTURE. 



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They saw the men turn somersets over the backs of the elephants ; 

 but when the three-horse rider came out, both Tommy and !N"ellie 

 were fast asleep. It Avas too much circus for them. 



The next day, and for a whole week after, they talked about the 

 circus, the elephants, and the wild Indians. 



CHUCKY AND HIS PICTURE. 



Chucky was his name. It may seem a funny name for a poor 

 little orphan woodchuckj but that is what we called him when he 

 came to live at our house. When he was very little we built him 

 a house. It was a box with slats nailed across the front and sides. 

 He was very much afraid of Rover; and the dog, thinking he was 

 no better than any other woodchnck, would bark at him. He 

 wanted to give him a good shaking for coming to live at "The 

 Elms." After we had scolded him and told him not to touch, 

 he finally let little Chucky alone. Still he looked very crossly at 

 him as Chucky poked his little brown nose through the bars of his 

 prison-house. 



Chucky grew rapidly, and soon found that his house was too 

 small for him. He told us so by gnawing at the slats. We let him 

 out, and he went to live under the wood-shed. 



He was a roguish little fellow, and enjoyed playing with Kitty 

 Tom very much. But he was shy of Eover, and showed his dis- 

 like by snapping his teeth at him. 



One day a "picture-man," as !N^eddie called him, stopped at our 

 house to dinner. As he was about starting away Charlie exclaimed, 



