The School Board Readers; Standard III - Adapted to the Requirements of the New Code, 1871 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE STORY OF PUSS, TINEY, AND BESS, AS TOLD BY THEIR MASTER. lev-er-et en-ter-tain-ing cha-rac-ter fam-il-iar sur-li-ness re-mark-a-bly re-cov-er-ing pre-serv-ed cre-a-ture. The children of a neighbour of mine had a leveret given them for a plaything: it was at that time three months old. Understanding better how to tease the poor creature than to feed it, and soon becoming weary of their charge, they consented that their father, who saw it pining and growing leaner every day, should offer it to me. It was soon known among the neighbours that I was pleased with the present, and in a short time I had as many leverets offered me as would have stocked a paddock. I undertook the care of three, to whom I gave the names of Puss, Tiney, and Bess. I built them houses to sleep in, and in the daytime they ran about the hall. Pass grew presently familiar, would leap into my lap, raise himself on his hinder feet, and bite the hair from my temples; he would let me take him, and carry him about in my arms, and has more than once fallen fast asleep on my knee. He was ill three days, during which time I nursed him, kept him apart from his fellows, and by constant care, and trying him with various herbs, restored him to perfect health. No creature could be more grateful than Puss was after his recovery, which he showed by licking my hand, first the back of it, then the palm, then every finger separately, then between all the fin- g Ts, as if anxious to leave no part unsaluted; this he never did but once again, on a similar occasion. I used to carry him after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber, sleeping or chewingthe cud till evening. He would often invite me to the garden, by drumming upon my knee, and by a look which I could no...