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MAX

Max has an ox and a cart. The ox draws the cart. Max is hauling logs.

He has been chopping trees. His ax is stuck in a log. Max has a box.

Ben asks Max for the box.

He wants the box

for his red hen.

She has six little chicks.

THE LITTLE CHICKS

Cluck, cluck; cluck, cluck.
This is Cluck a Luck.

She has been sitting on her

nest for three weeks.

Cluck a Luck left her nest

this morning.

She will not go back.

She has six little chicks.

Ben will shut her in the box

till the chicks grow strong.

VIXEN

Val! Val!" Max calls out. Val comes, and Max tells him : "I have something for you." "O, I see; it is a little pup." "No," Max tells him, "this is a little fox.

I call her Vixen.

She is not grown yet.

She is a little cub."

"Is she for me?" asks Val.

SALEM FRATERNITY.