Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     Mile. D., a good and worthy lady, who lived in a country house in the neighborhood of Columbier, had a dog of special intelligence. He was of the race of poodles, which, everybody knows, is remarkably sagacious. When Mile. D., passed the evening with ladies of her acquaintance in Columbier as so often happened, the dog lighted her home by carrying two little lanterns, which were fastened on each end of a stick which he carried in his mouth. If she went to walk during the day the faithful dog carried her work-basket. On a beautiful Autumn morning, as Mile. D., was going by a vineyard on her way back from Columbier, a hare sprang out into the road. The dog set out after him, forsook his mistress and sowed a part of the contents of the work-basket at every turn in the field. When he came home with the empty basket Mile. D. scolded him well. Wholly ashamed, with drooping ears and tail, he did not wait for the end of the lecture, but scampered off. Scarcely half an hour passed when he came gayly back, bringing a pair of shears; then he hurried off again and brought the knitting-work; then a skein of thread, and at evening all the articles which the basket had contained, except the thimble, were together again.-From a Paris Letter.