' I WISH '

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2, 14 January 1909, Page 78

' I WISH '

A dog saw a cat on the top of a high wall, and said : ' I Avish I could get up there ! It must be so nice to Bit wp so high; but I cannot climb.' And he was cross, and would not wag his tail. Then he came to a pond and saw a fish in it. And he said : ' I wish I could live in a pond all day ! Then I should not be so hot as lam now.' And he would not look at the fish, but shut his eyes, and lay down on the grass. Then he heard the fish say : 'O, I wish I could lie down on the fresh, green grass, like that dog. It does look so nice and warm out there ! ' The dog sat up, and went back by the road he had come. As he went, he saw a bird, and he heard it say: ' I wish I could play all day long like that dog, and have a house made for me to live in ; I have to make a, nest, and my wings are so tired ! Yet I must fly to and fro, day by day, till it is done.' Then he saw the cat on the wall, and heard her say: ' There goes chat spoiled old dog home to get his plabe of meat- I wish I was as well off, and could get meat like him. I have had no food all this long day. I wish I was like that dog!'