I know another little man about your age whose name is Clifford, and
what do you think they call him? Tupper. He gave himself this name when
he was learning to talk. Chippy is a very pretty pet name for a boy. I
would like to go to your circus, but, dear, if I were your Sunday-school
teacher, I think I would coax such a big and clever boy as you to learn
the Golden Text every week. Don't you think you can do so if you try?
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A dear child who lives in Titusville, Pennsylvania, incloses a verse
which she made up herself about her dog Bruno. Here it is:
One Sunday morn the sky was blue,
August the first, in Eighty-two,
A little dog, both round and fat,
Was brought to us, small as a rat.
Old mother Gyp, so proud and wise,
Smiled upon it with loving eyes.
The dog is mine; I named it Bruno;
But mother said to name it Uno.
I said, "Oh no," and got my ball.
The dog is mine; and that is all.