hold upon her." Neither of the women, I suppose from weakness, had knelt before the commencement of this service: when it was finished, one of them resumed her seat, but the other had forgotten fatigue-her heart seemed engrossed only by God, and the "gift and heritage" which He had given her; still hanging over her infant, she continued kneeling, and rose not till the whole service was concluded; she then looked very faint, and allowed her friend to take her child at first, when she sate down, she trembled, and the colour forsook her cheeks: she raised her unfolded pocket handkerchief to her temples, but it was not to cool them, for she hastily pressed it to her eyes: her friend was dancing the infant the mother again recovered her calmness; smiled at it, and again received it to her arms. I observed her unpinning her neat muslin neck handkerchief; ere she could lift up her red cloak, I had withdrawn my eyes.

MARGARET.

"At my side

My cradled infant slumbers peacefully.

'Tis calm indeed! so calm, that, it disturbs

And vexes meditation, with its strange,

And extreme silentness."

Coleridge.

MARGARET..

MARGARET had arranged every thing after her frugal dinner was finished, and she sat down to her work at her cottage window. She had worked some time, when her little girl, who was then playing near her, asked her to walk out. "Wait a little while, my love," said Margaret; "wait till I have finished my work, and we will go." The little girl was shortly repaid for the patience with which she sat down near her mother, quietly waiting till she was ready. They were soon on the smooth sea shore. It was a clear, calm afternoon in October; the clouds, which had rendered the morning wet and gloomy, had passed away, and the sun shone brightly on the gently agitated waves, which bore every now and then to the sparkling pebbly shore, (and left there