Are you ready? Shall I shake the popper over the fire? Shake, shake, shake! Hear the corn in the popper! "Pop, pop, pop!" says the corn.

Now the popper is full of soft white pop
Pour it out into the dish, Tom, while

corn.

I go to the kitchen for butter and salt.

Here are salt and butter, Tom. Is the corn ready? You stir in the salt, and I will sti in the butter.

Mother, have some of our good pop corn!

THE BIG SEA WAVE

splash sea spade pat'ting plant'ing gone

Splash, splash! came the big sea wave.

Helen was making a hill of sand. She had a little spade with which to dig up the sand. She had a branch of leaves to stand up in it. That was to be a big tree growing on the hill. Splash, splash! came the big sea wave.

Helen did not see it. She was sitting with her back to the big blue wave. She was patting the hill. She was planting the big tree.

"Helen, jump up! Come here, dear! Come!" some one called. Helen jumped up and ran. Splash, splash! came the big sea wave.

It put out its arms and covered the hill. It drew back into the sea again. And hill and tree and spade were gone.

I am not a squirrel.

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dressed

Are you a carpenter?

Yes, I am a carpenter, but I live in a

tree.

Are you a squirrel?

white collar and vest, and a red cap.

You are a woodpecker.
Yes, you have guessed my name.

The old woodpecker is hard at work,
A carpenter is he;

And you can hear him hammering
His nest in the old elm tree.