THE LECTURES. 
71 
“Why, Daisy, I was only joking. You 
know there are hardly any wild animals left 
in the country now, and none that are 
at all dangerous. You don’t think Mr. 
Crediton would take us if there were any 
real danger? But I think it is fun to fancy 
such things, as we do when we play at lions 
and tigers, you know.” 
“I don’t like to play them,” said Daisy. 
“I rather think, Sidney, if you want a 
lecture in the woods, Mr. Crediton will have 
to give it,” observed Miss Louisa. “I feel 
hardly equal to your adventurous walks.” 
“But what of the lectures?” asked Kate. 
“ I have not heard any thing about them. 
Who is giving them?” 
“Aunt Louisa,” replied Annie. “She 
has given us two already; and we are to have 
another to-night. Last night it was about 
domestic cats and lynxes; and to-night we 
are to have some other kinds of the cat- 
family.” 
“And only think, Kate!” interrupted 
Daisy, eagerly: “lions and tigers are all 
cats,—just like common cats, only bigger!” 
“Of course Kate knows that,” said Sid¬ 
ney, rather arrogantly, forgetting that he 
