Rosa. Oh, the cock will crow.

Then I will

cook the breakfast. Father says I am mother's

own girl.

Anna. But I hate to scrub floors! And who will wash our clothes?

Rosa. We can send them to the laundry.

Anna. But do you think we shall have money enough for all that?

Rosa. We can get some more. And on Sundays the family will come to see us. We will give them strawberries and cream.

Anna. I will study my doll's cook book and learn how to roast chicken.

Rosa. We will have salmon and peas, cucumbers and poached eggs; but never, never, beef soup!

A

Anna. Nobody likes beef soup.

poor little boy and girl come and stand near them.

Rosa. Did you have beef soup for your dinner? The Boy. We didn't have any dinner.

Anna. Well, what did you have for breakfast?

The Girl. Nothing.

Rosa. What! No cocoa?

The Boy (surprised). Cocoa?

The Girl. What is cocoa?

Anna. Have you had no bread and milk?

The Boy. We had some stale bread yesterday afternoon.

Rosa and Anna look at each other.

Rosa. Here! Take my coin and go buy something you like.

Anna. Mine, too.

The poor children thank them and go away. Rosa. Oh, Oh, I forgot all about the red cottage. We cannot buy it now.

Anna. Not till we get some more pennies, when there are no poor children about.

-ZACHRIS TOPELIUS, translated and adapted by Maria Sandahl

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

He was

Once upon a time there was a wee, wee lambikin who frolicked about and enjoyed himself. One day he went to visit his granny. jumping with joy, thinking of all the good things she would give him, when he met a jackal.

The jackal said: "Lambikin! Lambikin! I'LL EAT YOU!"

Lambikin gave a little frisk and said:

"To granny's house I go,

Where I shall fatter grow,

Then you can eat me so."

The jackal thought this a good plan and let the lambikin pass.

By and by he met a vulture. The vulture said: "Lambikin! Lambikin! I'LL EAT YOU!"

But Lambikin only gave a little frisk and said:

The vulture thought this a good plan and let

lambikin pass.

By and by he met a tiger, and then a wolf, and a dog, and an eagle. All these when they saw him said: "Lambikin! Lambikin! I'LL EAT YOU!"

But to all of them lambikin replied with a little frisk:

"To granny's house I go,
Where I shall fatter grow,

Then you can eat me so.”

At last he reached his granny's house, and said, all in a great hurry, "Granny dear, I've promised to get very fat, so please put me into the corn. bin at once."

His granny said he was a good boy. She put him into the corn bin. There the greedy little lambikin stayed for seven days and ate, and ate, until he could scarcely waddle. His granny said he was fat enough for anything and must go home.