<h5 id="id03153" style="margin-top: 2em">THE MILKMAID AND HER PAIL</h5>
<p id="id03154">PATTY, the Milkmaid, was going to market carrying her milk in a Pail on
her head. As she went along she began calculating what she would do
with the money she would get for the milk. "I'll buy some fowls from
Farmer Brown," said she, "and they will lay eggs each morning, which I
will sell to the parson's wife. With the money that I get from the
sale of these eggs I'll buy myself a new dimity frock and a chip hat;
and when I go to market, won't all the young men come up and speak to
me! Polly Shaw will be that jealous; but I don't care. I shall just
look at her and toss my head like this." As she spoke, she tossed her
head back, the Pail fell off it and all the milk was spilt. So she had
to go home and tell her mother what had occurred.
"Ah, my child," said her mother,</p>
<h5 id="id03155">DO NOT COUNT YOUR CHICKENS BEFORE</h5>
<h5 id="id03156">THEY ARE HATCHED.</h5>
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