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THE HISTORY OF THE SEVEN FAMILIES.
"Lettuce! O Lettuce!
"Let us, O let us,
"O Lettuce leaves,
"O let us leave this tree and eat
"Lettuce, O let us, Lettuce leaves!"
"Let us, O let us,
"O Lettuce leaves,
"O let us leave this tree and eat
"Lettuce, O let us, Lettuce leaves!"
And instantly the Seven young Guinea Pigs rushed with such extreme force against the Lettuce-plant, and hit their heads so vividly against its stalk, that the concussion brought on directly an incipient transitional inflammation of their noses, which grew worse and worse and worse and worse till it incidentally killed them all Seven.
And that was the end of the Seven young Guinea Pigs.
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CHAPTER X.
THE HISTORY OF THE SEVEN YOUNG CATS.
HE Seven young Cats set off on their travels with great delight and rapacity. But, on coming to the top of a high hill, they perceived at a long distance