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Some useful animals and what they do for us
Some useful animals and what they do for us Author:John Monteith 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: A LITTLE PROFESSOR OF CATTLE i One bright morning in October Mary Burns was looking out at the window when she saw, coming up the steps, a boy about ten year... more »s old. " Why, if there isn't Tony Grant!" she cried. " Johnny, Johnny! here is Tony!" Her brother left his bicycle, which he was fixing, and the two rushed to the door. They shook both of Tony's hands and told him how well he looked. Tony smiled and blushed as he said, " I thought I never would get here." Then Tony, who had never been in the city before, described the hard time he had trying to get uptown. A friend had put him on a street car and told him to get off at One Hundred and Fifteenth Street. He counted the streets crossed, but counted wrong, and stopped at One Hundredth Street. Then he took another car and went ten blocks too far. " I was frightened when I got off the car," said Tony, "for I thought the wagons and bicycles would run over me. I don't like cities much. They are so noisy and close. I don't see how you can breathe or sleep." The children laughed, and then Mary almost cried. " You poor boy!" she said, " they oughtnever to have let you come alone. Come right in, and we will make you happy. We had such a lovely time at your home last summer." Mrs. Burns soon came downstairs and made the little country boy feel at home. She had invited Tony to visit Johnny and Mary before the pleasant October was gone. The children, she said, would take him to the parks and museums, and show him the ocean steamships. "And then," she added, "we have been learning and reading about cows and cattle since we came back from your father's farm, and you can help us. You know so much about these things." " Yes," said Tony, " I know all about cows, but I don't know anything about street cars and cities. I co...« less