3 2. Aleck. We are not playing any game. 3. Ork. O, yes, you have been playing an excellent game, only you did not know it. 4. Al. What game is it? 5. Ork. The game of cat and dog. You see, you have been acting just like a cat and a dog that happen to be in the same yard together; so, instead of playing horses, as Martin proposed, you have been playing cat and dog; and if you had only known what you were doing, you would have found it excellent fun. 6. Martin. Nonsense, Orkney! you don't mean any such thing. 7. Ork. Why? Do you not think you were really acting like a cat and a dog? 8. Mar. No, not a bit. 9. Ork. Why, yes. You have forgotten how a cat and a dog do act towards each other when they find themselves in the same yard. 10. Mar. How do they act? 11. Ork. Did not you ever observe them? 12. Mar. Yes; but we want you to tell us how they act. 13. Ork. In the first place, when the dog sees the cat, he runs over towards her; but he does not look good-natured and amiable,' as if he were coming like a friend. He expects a quarrel, and he is coming on purpose to make one; so he comes growling a little, and looking fierce.' 14. Al. Yes. 15. Ork. He does not growl much,-it is only a little; but it does not take much of a growl from a dog to let a cat know that he feels cross. 16. Al. No, very little indeed. 17. Ork. And just so a boy, without any growling at all, but just by his way of saying No, in a short and snappish way, so- No!- may let another boy see that he is cross, and so make the other boy feel cross too. 18. Mar. In this way - No! 19. Al. Or so-No, I tell you, no! 20. Ork. Yes, that is the tone. Now, when the cat sees the dog coming up, and growling at her, do you think she begins to purr? 21. Mar. No, indeed! , 22. Ork. Or walk up and rub against him affectionately? 23. Mar. No, indeed. 24. Ork. Not at all. She puts up her back, and sticks out her tail, and looks as fierce as she can in return. 25. Al. Yes, exactly. 26. Ork. Then the dog begins to bark. Then the cat snarls and spits at him. Then the dog comes nearer, and barks louder. Then the cat catches at him with her paw, and tries to scratch him. 27. Mar. Yes, we have seen them do so a thousand times. 28. Ork. Then the cat runs off and jumps upon a bench, and from the bench she climbs up to the top of a fence. Then the dog walks away growling. The dog lies down on the piazza3 near the door, and the cat sits on the top of the post; and then they look at each other with looks of anger and defiance, just exactly as you boys did a little while ago. 29. Al. O, Orkney! 30. Ork. Yes, it was exactly so. Well, by and by 5 the cat comes down from the fence; but, instead of coming to play with the dog good naturedly, she goes off in a sulky manner towards the garden. The dog starts up, and barks at her again. He considers whether it is worth while for him to run after her and bite her; but finally he concludes that it is not quite worth the trouble; so he lies down again growling. 31. Al. O, Orkney, we did not do so. You 32. Ork. You did as nearly so as boys can. cannot bark, and snarl, and scratch exactly like a cat and a dog, or sit on a post of the fence, but you can do what comes to the same thing; and a very funny way to play it is, when you once know what it is that you are playing. Now, you go out into the yard again, and do just what you did before, and say the same things to each other, and just remember all the time that you are playing cat and dog; and you will find it excellent fun. You can be the cat, and Martin can be the dog; or you can be the dog, and Martin can be the cat: it makes no difference which. 33. Mar. Nonsense, Orkney! I will not. 34. Ork. I am sure you would like it if you only tried it. You did not have a good time at all before; but that was because you did not know what you were playing. Go and try it again. Aleck will propose to play ball. Then Martin must say, in as snappish a manner as possible, that Aleck's ball is not good for any thing that it is ripped and wet. Then Aleck must growl back that it is not, and so on. 35. Al. Nonsense, Orkney! You are only making fools of us. Come, Martin, I do not want to hear him talking so any more. Let's go and play. P 36. Mar. Well, so we will, and Orkney may go back to his work. Where's your ball? 37. Al. Here it is, in my pocket. 1 AMIABLE. Lovable, pleasing. 2 FIERCE. Savage, furious. PIAZZA. A covered walk supported [They go off to play. 4 DEFIANCE. A braving or daring. 5 CONSIDERS. Thinks, reflects. 6 DIFFERENCE. State of being unlik or distinct, odds, wrin'kled (ring'kld) i L. LAPLAND. crossed 3 teár (tår) S deş'ert 1. WITH blue, cold nose and wrinkled brow, From Lapland's woods and hills of frost, 2. There, tapering' grows the gloomy fir, There the wild hare and the crow 3. There the shivering huntsmen tear 4. There tardy suns to deserts drear 5. Where the snorting sea-horse shows 4 And from teeming seas supply The food their niggard' plains deny. APERING. Growing gradually | PROWL. Rove about for prey. quadru-ped (kwod-) y mus′çleş (müs'siz) t mẹ-chăr’i-cal 5 Q mër'chan-dişe / păl-i-sādeş 12 en-clō'şure en-vi'roned / 4 ba-na'ną (ba-nā- or ba-na-) g-bē′di̟-ènçe / s 1. THE elephant, which is the largest and most powerful of all quadrupeds,' is a native both of Asia and Africa, but is most numerous in the former country, where large herds, consisting of many hundreds, have been seen. Elephants have been found upwards of twelve feet high, and weighing five tons. 2 2. The animal seems clumsy and awkward; but this defect is fully made up by the flexibility of his trunk. His legs are massive columns, of three or four feet in circumference, and five or six feet in length. 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