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and forwards,
And tilts up his chair,
Just like any
rocking horse--
"Philip! I am getting cross!"
See the naughty, restless child
Growing still more rude and wild,

Till his chair falls over quite.
Philip screams with all his might,

Catches at the cloth, but then
That makes matters worse again.

Down upon the ground they fall,
Glasses, plates, knives, forks, and
all.
How Mamma did fret and frown,
When she saw them tumbling
down!
And Papa made such a face!

Philip is in sad disgrace.
Where is Philip, where is he?
Fairly covered up you see!
Cloth and
all are lying on him;
He has pulled down all upon him.
What a
terrible to-do!
Dishes, glasses, snapt in two!
Here a knife, and there

a fork!
Philip, this is cruel work.
Table all so bare, and ah!
Poor
Papa, and poor Mamma
Look quite cross, and wonder how
They
shall have their dinner now.
The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air
As he trudged along to school,
It was always Johnny's rule
To be
looking at the sky
And the clouds that floated by;
But what just
before him lay,
In his way,
Johnny never thought about;
So that
every one cried out
"Look at little Johnny there,
Little Johnny
Head-In-Air!"
Running just in Johnny's way
Came a little dog one day;
Johnny's
eyes were still astray
Up on high,
In the sky;
And he never heard
them cry
"Johnny, mind, the dog is nigh!"
Bump!
Dump!
Down
they fell, with such a thump,
Dog and Johnny in a lump!
Once, with head as high as ever,
Johnny walked beside the river.

Johnny watched the swallows trying
Which was cleverest at flying.

Oh! what fun!
Johnny watched the bright round sun
Going in and
coming out;
This was all he thought about.
So he strode on, only
think!
To the river's very brink,
Where the bank was high and steep,

And the water very deep;
And the fishes, in a row,
Stared to see
him coming so.
One step more! oh! sad to tell!
Headlong in poor Johnny fell.
And
the fishes, in dismay,
Wagged their tails and swam away.
There lay Johnny on his face,

With his nice red writing-case;
But,
as they were passing by,
Two strong men had heard him cry;
And,
with sticks, these two strong men
Hooked poor Johnny out again.
Oh! you should have seen him shiver
When they pulled him from the
river.
He was in a sorry plight!
Dripping wet, and such a fright!

Wet all over, everywhere,
Clothes, and arms, and face, and hair:


Johnny never will forget
What it is to be so wet.
And the fishes, one, two, three,
Are come back again, you see;
Up
they came the moment after,
To enjoy the fun and laughter.
Each
popped out his little head,
And, to tease poor Johnny, said
"Silly
little Johnny, look,
You have lost your writing-book!"
The Story of Flying Robert
When the rain comes tumbling down
In the country or the town,
All
good little girls and boys
Stay at home and mind their toys.
Robert
thought, "No, when it pours,
It is better out of doors."
Rain it did,
and in a minute
Bob was in it.
Here you see him, silly fellow,

Underneath his red umbrella.
What a wind! oh! how it whistles
Through the trees and flowers and
thistles!
It has caught his red umbrella:
Now look at him, silly
fellow--
Up he flies
To the skies.
No one heard his screams and
cries;
Through the clouds the rude wind bore him,
And his hat flew
on before him.
Soon they got to such a height,
They were nearly out of sight.
And
the hat went up so high,
That it nearly touched the sky.
No one ever
yet could tell
Where they stopped, or where they fell:
Only this one
thing is plain,
Bob was never seen again!
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