love one another, and to live in peace and harmony.

4. People will not speak or think well of you, if you do not behave kindly to your parents, and to your brothers and sisters.

5. Whom," say they, "will persons love, or be kind to, if they do not love their own father and mother, who have done so much for them; and their own brothers and sisters, who have the same parents, and the same home as they have, and who are brought up with them ?"

INJUSTICE.

John and Henry.

J. Why do you cry?

H. George has been beating me.

J. How is that? He is a good boy; he does not beat me. What did you to him?

H. I took his top.

J. Did you ask him for it?

H. No, I would not do that; I wanted it, and took it.

J. When he saw you had it, did he ask you for it?

H. Yes; and when I would not give it to him he took it from me, and beat me.

J. He should not have beaten you. But you have been a bad boy: you have done wrong.

H. How have I done wrong? I wanted the top, and I took it.

J. If I were to take your book, or your hat, would you like it?

H. No; these are mine, and you ought not to take my things.

J. Ought you then to take They are his, and not yours.

George's things?

Ought you to do

that to him, which you do not wish me to do to you?

Night.

1. The glorious sun is set in the west; the night dews fall; and the air, which was sultry, becomes cool.

2. The flowers fold up their coloured leaves; they fold themselves up, and hang their heads on the slender stalk.

3. The chickens are gathered under the wings of the hen, and are at rest; the hen herself is at rest also.

4. The little birds have ceased their warblings; they are asleep on the boughs, each one with its head behind its wing.

5. There is no murmur of bees around the hive, they have done their work, and lie close in their waxen cells.

6. The sheep rest upon their soft fleeces, and their loud bleating is no more heard amongst the hills.

7. There is no sound of a number of voices, or of children at play, or of trampling of busy feet, or of people hurrying to and fro.

3. The smith's hammer is not heard upon the anvil; nor the harsh saw of the carpenter.

9. All men are stretched on their quiet beds, and the child sleeps upon the breast of its mother.

10. Darkness is spread over the skies, and darkness is upon the ground; every eye is shut, and every hand is still.

Of Reading.

1. When you read, hold up your head, and stand still, with your face towards the person that hears you.

2. Do not read in a hurry, but speak your words plainly and distinctly.

3. Let the tone of your voice be the same in reading as it is in speaking.

4. Attend to what you are reading, and if you meet with a word you do not know, never guess at it, but spell it; if you do not know it then, ask your teacher, who will direct you.

5. Be fond of reading to your teacher, and thank him when he corrects you, for it is for your own good.

6. Observe your stops, and never make any where the sense will admit of none.

7. It is very common with many in reading to drop the voice at the close of the sentence, or end with a low tone, which is a great fault.

8. Our grand object should be to learn our duty to God and man; how to govern ourselves and be useful to others.

9. In order to learn these duties well, you should read the best books, and read them with the greatest care, so as to understand what you read.

The Farmer and his Sons.

1. A certain farmer was lying at the point of death, and being desirous that his two sons should pursue the same honest course of life that he had done, he called them to his bedside, and thus spoke to them.

2. "My dearest children," said he, “I have no estate to leave you but my farm and my vineyard, of which I have made you joint heirs; and I hope that you will have so much respect for me, when I am dead and gone, and so much regard to your own welfare, as not to part with what I shall leave you, upon any account.

3. "All the treasure I am master of, lies buried somewhere in my vineyard, within a foot of the surface: though it is not now in my power to go and show you the spot.

4. "Farewell, then, my children; be honest in all your dealings, and kind and loving to each other, as children ought to be; but be sure that you never forget my advice about the farm and the vineyard."

5. Soon after the old man was in his grave, his sons set about searching for his treasure, which they supposed to have been hidden in the ground. "When it is found," said. they, "we shall have enough and to spare, and may live like the sons of kings."

6. So to work they both went, as briskly as could be; and though they missed the golden treasure, which they thought to find, yet by their joint labour the vineyard was so well digged and turned up, that it yielded a noble crop of fruit, which proved a treasure indeed.