hat do you want, you black dog? We do not ow you. Then the dog went to Ralph the serint, and pull-ed him by the coat, and pull-ed m till he brought him to the ditch; and the og and Ralph be-tween them got the lit-tle by out of the ditch; but he was all over mud, id quite wet, and all the folks laugh-ed at him e-cause he was a cow-ard. LESSON 11. One day, in the month of June, Thomas had ot all his things ready to set out on a little unt of pleasure with a few of his friends, but he sky became black with thick clouds, and on hat account he was forced to wait some time in uspense. Being at last stopped by a heavy hower of rain, he was so vexed, that he could ot refrain from tears; and sitting down in a ulky humour, would not suffer any one to omfort him. Towards night the clouds began to vanish; he sun shone with great brightness, and the vhole face of nature seemed to be changed. Roert then took Thomas with him into the fields, nd the freshness of the air, the music of the birds, nd the greenness of the grass, filled him with leasure. "Do you see," said Robert, "what change has taken place? Last night the ground vas parched: the flowers, and all the things eemed to droop. To what cause must we imute this happy change?" Struck with the folly if his own conduct in the morning, Thomas was forced to admit, that the useful rain which fell hat morning had done all this good. C |