The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-03-19

Rabbit talked in that way about it, that
Mrs. Rabbit might, perhaps, eat her.
She met cat, and the cat said, "Mew,
new"
Thank you, pussy, said the little
Princess, who could not pronounce quite
all her words properly, "for trying to
muse me (; but / want to be happy.
SIN nappy one, said pussy, and
she purred herself off to sleep.
She doesn't know how to pronounce
her MS" said the little Princess.
Next she met a cart-wheel rolling down
hill all by itself.
"Such fun" it said, as it went by.
"Tve run away from the little boy that
was trundling me.
sob, that's the way to be happy, is
it" cried the Princess, and she lay down
and rolled. But she didn't get much
fun out of her rolling-she only scratched
and bruised herself
"Ah, that's because l hadn't any one
to tronble me, she said, when she got
up at the bottom of the hill.
AS she went up the hill once more, she
met the little boy who had been tr,ln-
ding the wheel.
"Ah, little boy" she said, "I've met
your wheel. 1t has had such fun. 1t
went right splash into the pond down
there, and is swimming about looking so
comfortable Please trundle me"
The little boy was very angry at hav-
ing lost his wheel, and so behaved very
rudely.
"Trundle vel I'll trounce we, you
young hussy," he cried. He was a
little coward, of course, or else he
wouldn't have talked about trouncing a
little girl
"Tm not little hussy-Im a little
princess" Princess Wingcarribee indig
nantly rejoined.
60 You princess with your clothes
all in rags and your face all in scratches"
said the little boy and he trotted down
the hill, painting after his trlant wheel.
He stopped, when he had got a'little way
down, to shout back
You say you're q princess. Have
you got mother that is queen, and
if you have, does she know you're
outl"
"No, she DOESN'T" answered Princess
Wingcarribee-" if she did, and heard
you talking like that, she'd box your
ears, you rude little boy! J"
"Then go back to her, and make your
self happy !" shouted the little boy.
why, that sounds like sense" said
the Princess to herself.
And she went back to the hollow tree,
and got, as she deserved to get, a good
scolding from the Queen, who was max
ing her runaway little girls moss bed
Teaching "a Dog to Perform Tricks.
We have taught our dog to go into
the corner when commanded in the fol-
lowing way: BY attracting her atten-
ton to a piece of meat held rather out
of reach, and gradually enticing her
toward the corner, then talking to her
all the time and instructing her how to
stand, frequently repeating the word we
wish her to particularly notice, viz:
corner" After standing a second or
two we give her the meat, frightening
the time of standing between each lesson.
Now, when we point to the place and
say " corner" we find she walks in of
her own accord, and of course is re-
warded after Another of her tricks is
waltzing This is done by holding a
piece of meat high, and moving it in a
circle, saying " waltz" and gently scold-
ing when she jumps. She stands up
and walks, or rather runs, upon her
hind legs, exactly as we move the meat.
Now she will do it without meat when
we say waltz. Another. trick is jump
ing over, through and under the
back of cane-bottomed chair.
This we taught her by holding
piece of meat and standing some way
behind the chair with her upon the seat;
then, showing her by pointing what we
required her to do, we said "over," and
she of course jumps over for the meat;
the same through" the bar and
"under." OF course she tried at first to
do everything in the manner easiest to
herself, but by practice she soon found
it was no use. Another trick: we az
range the chairs in a semi-circle round
the room, and make her run over them
upon the seats; this was done by entic-
ing her from one chair to another. Now
we allow some distance between each
chair, and she runs round as quickly as
possible, and stands up upon the last
one, waiting for her tit-bit. A dog of
ordinary sagacity can be taught almost
anything by kindness and perseverance;
but if you lose your temper, or are i'm
patient, they are ruined, becoming either
stubborn or nervous. The great thing
is to talk to dogs, and encourage them,
and make companions of them.