Then you trade your cow for bagpipes which you can't play. Besides, they are not worth as much as the cow.

"And then, you foolish fellow, you give up your bagpipes for mitts not worth one-fifth as much as the bagpipes. And these you give up for a stick,—a poor, worthless stick.

"Now, for your twelve golden eagles, your black and white cow, your screaming bagpipes, and your red mitts, you have nothing to show but that poor, worthless stick. And that you might have cut in any woods."

And then the parrot laughed at him.

This was more than Mr. Vinegar could bear. He was so angry that he threw the stick at the parrot. It missed the parrot and stuck in the tree. Mr. Vinegar could not get it down.

Again he started for home. He went back to his wife without the golden eagles, without the screaming bagpipes, without the red mitts and without the worthless stick.

As Mr. Vinegar came near his wife, he saw she had a broom in her hand, and he said:

TO THE PUPILS:

The plural of army is

armies. Place the two

words at the top of your paper opposite each other. Write the word singular over one and the word plural over the other.

Place the following words under army: duty, sky, beauty, lily, pigsty, baby. Write the proper plural of each opposite to it and under the word armies.

From this exercise, tell how words ending in y preceded by a consonant form their plurals.

Turn to page 23. From the exercise there given, tell how words ending in y preceded by a vowel form their plurals.

Write a rule for this.

To THE TEACHER:

This work should be carefully supervised. Let each pupil make the necessary corrections on his paper from your exercise on the board. In the Dudelsack Song, see that the pupils give the nasal quality in the terminations and the long u in tune.

FIFTY-FIFTH EVENING

“Mr. Vinegar must have thought it a topsy-turvy world, Grandma, after he was all through," said Belle.

"Well, I do not know that he turned things upside down, but he certainly came out of the little end of the horn, as the saying is."

"Grandma," said Ben, "Belle's remark about topsy-turvy reminds me of the recitation in school this morning. It was a funny piece. Should you like to hear it?"

"I know I should like to hear it, and I think May would, too."

"I should be very glad to hear it, Grandma," said May. Then Ben recited:

THE TOPSY-TURVY WORLD

If the butterfly courted the bee,
And the owl the porcupine;

If churches were built in the sea,
And three times one were nine;

If the pony rode his master,

If the buttercups ate the cows,
If the cats had the dire disaster
To be worried, sir, by the mouse;

If mamma, sir, sold the baby
To a gypsy for half-a-crown;
If a gentleman, sir, was a lady-
The world would be upside down!
If any or all of these wonders
Should ever come about,

I should not consider them blunders,
For I should be inside-out!

"Which would be almost as bad as being outside-in," said Grandma, as she smiled.

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Then Belle said, Everybody laughed at The Topsy-Turvy World this morning, Grandma. And afterward, our teacher made us laugh."

"How was that?" inquired Grandma.

"There is a little girl that sits near me, and she talks all the time. She has been kept in very often and marked "C" in deportment just as often; but that doesn't stop her. She chatters, chatters, all day long."