When they are taken out, what do you think they are? They are bricks!'
[Illustration]
A DONKEY.
[Illustration]
bot'-tom
lane
don'-key
load
fruit
this'-tles
hedge
rough
ap-ple
car'-rot
touch
mor'-row
feast
win'-dow
shag'-gy
tuft
1. At the bottom of the lane lived a donkey. Harry and Dora knew him
well. They often met him going to town with a load of fruit, and they
saw him in the lane every day cropping the grass and thistles by the
hedge-side.
2. He knew them, too, for they would stop to pat his rough sides, or
give him an apple or a carrot.
3. They wondered how he could eat such prickly things as thistles. A
horse would never touch them.
4. One day his master took him into the garden while he was working. He
let Neddy go up and down the paths and crop the grass, which had grown
long on the little grass-plot.
5. The donkey did not once try to get at the pears and apples; he did
not even look at them.
6. His master was pleased, and said to his wife: 'It is quite safe to
leave the gate open, and let Neddy come into the garden when he likes. I
shall be away to-morrow, but you need not look after him.
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