20. When it was time to go home, Emma cried. But her mother told her how much father wanted to kiss his good little girl, and how he would love to hear about the things she had seen. Emma loved her father, and she was willing to go home.

21. She told him all about the chickens, and the ox, and the lady-bug, and the squirrel, and the crickets. "I am glad I did not catch the pretty little squirrel,” said she; "he would not like to live in New York. I suppose he was made on purpose to live in the country. I wish I were a squirrel."

1. LITTLE Fanny lived in the country. She had one brother and two sisters. They had never been in a city. When Fanny was four or five years old, her father and mother promised to take her to New York. There never was a little girl more glad than she was. From morning till night, she talked about her journey. When

she first awoke in the morning, she would say to her sister, "Ah, Mary, I am going to New York." And when she laid her head on the pillow, the last question' always was, "Mother, when do you think we shall go to New York?"

2. The important day came at last. The baskets and boxes, and little Fanny, were all safely stowed' in the steamboat. Fanny had never been in a steamboat before. She asked what made the trees and fields run so; and when she looked at an old cow on the shore, she said, "What makes her go away so fast? She does not move her feet.”

3. Her mother told her the beat was moving away from the cow. Then little Fanny looked at the water, and saw that the boat was moving through it. But she thought there was soap in the water, because the bright foam looked so white.

4. When they came to New York, she was afraid in the street, because there were so many horses and so many people. She met a woman carrying a very small poodle dog in her arms. His hair was white, and soft as silk, and fell all over his face in pretty curls. Fanny stopped to look back at the poodle, and a boy with a basket of matches ran against her, and knocked her bonnet all out of shape.

5. “Mother, is this another steamboat?" asked Fanny. "No, this is a city," said her mother; "don't you see the houses?" "Yes, I see the houses," said Fanny; "but I thought maybe it was another kind of steamboat; the folks run over me so."

6. Fanny had great pleasure in looking at the toy shops: She saw many things that she never saw before, and she wanted to buy them all. But after a

few days, she began to be very homesick. She wanted to get back and see the children, and her little red and white calf, and her bantam chickens. She wanted to be where she could run out of doors without getting lost. She was glad enough when the day came to go home.

7. Her brother and sisters were waiting for her with great impatience. When the wagon came from the steamboat, they saw it a great way off, and began to wave their handkerchiefs for joy. They all crowded round Fanny, and began to kiss her. "O, I have had such a good time," said Fanny; "and I have brought some things for you."

8. She was so impatient, that she broke the string of her bonnet, trying to get it off. Before her mother could unpin her shawl, she seated herself on the floor and began to open the big basket. "Susan, here is a doll for you," said she; "and here is a little pail for Mary, and here is a top for Willie. It will spin, spin, spin, — O, how it will spin!"

9. "Spin what? Spin yarn for stockings?" asked little Mary.

10. "No, no," said Willie, laughing; "it will not spin yarn, it will spin round."

11. "And what is round?" asked little Mary.

12. "O, you don't know any thing about it. You never went to New York," said Fanny. "Look at me. That is round." As she spoke, she whirled round, till her gown stood out, as stiff as a churn.

13. "That is going; that is not spinning," said Mary.

14. "Well, they call it spinning; for they said so in New York," answered Fanny.

15. "They say so here, as well as in New York," said Willie; "I suppose they call it so, because the top makes a noise like a spinning wheel."

16. Fanny thought her brother did know something, though he had never been in New York. She said no more about his top.

17. "Come, tell us what you have seen," said Susan.

18. "O, I have seen so many things," said Fanny; "I cannot remember to tell half of them. I saw a little boy riding in the prettiest little carriage you ever saw. He had two ponies, no larger than uncle James's big dog. They looked like baby horses. I saw a great white image of a woman, that kept pouring water from a pitcher in her hand all the time. They called it a fountain. And I saw a little marble boy, that kept throwing up water over his head, and laughed when he saw it fall back again, wetting him all over. He was not alive. He was a marble image. But he looked as if he were laughing. And I saw so many, many dolls!"

19. "Should you like to live in New York?" asked Willie.

20. "No, I should not like to live there. I couldn't run about; and the folks push me. Come, let us go to the barn, and see how bossy calf does."

21. They all ran out to the barn, and found the calf eating his supper. Fanny patted him on the head, but he did not take much notice of her. "The foolish little thing," said Fanny; "he does not know I have been to New York. But here comes pussy cat, and she is glad to see me."

22. Pussy rubbed her fur against Fanny's gown, and

purred. Then they ran into the barn to hunt for eggs; and the children all went back to the house, with an egg in each hand. Their mother told the little ones it was time to eat their supper and go to bed. For a long time after they went up stairs, Fanny's tongue was running as fast as her brother's top could spin, Poor little Mary could not keep awake to hear all her stories; and the chatterbox, finding that her sister was asleep, went to sleep herself.

23. Every day she tells of some new wonder,* that she saw or heard while she was in the city. If the children laugh at her stories, she walks with her head very high, and says, "You never saw such things; for you never went to New York.”

1 QUESTION. Inquiry, query.

2 STOWED. Placed compactly, packed. CHATTERBOX.

An incessant talker.

4 WONDER. Emotion excited by some. thing new or strange, surprise means here, cause of surprise.

O, 'TIS a lovely thing for youth
To walk betimes' in Wisdom's way;
To fear a lie, to speak the truth,
That we may trust to all they say.
But liars we can never trust,

Although they speak the thing that's true;

And he that does one fault at first,
And lies to hide it, makes it two.

1 BETIMES. Seasonably, in good time, early.,