19. But, of all the seasons fair, None with Winter can compare.

20. Home delights then come again; Christmas and its pleasures then!

21. Though the snow-drifts hide the ground, Sports without, too, then abound.

22. We can coast, and slide, and skate : Health and fun on Winter wait.

23. Good long evenings, too, succeed : We can study, talk, and read.

24. O! give me the Winter bold! Let him come, with all his cold!

ALL THE SEASONS.

25. Every season with it brings Joy for all creäted things.

26. Yes, the Father in'fi-nite

Feeds the heart with fresh delight.

27. If His law of love we mind,

Night and day, we peace shall find.
28. If we keep the con'science clear,
Every season will be dear.

29. Ours shall be a happy youth,
If we always speak the truth.

30. If our teacher we obey,
We shall wiser grow each day.

1. EMMA, Charles, and Frank! Were they not happy children on that pleas'ant Fourth of July? Their Uncle John had promised to take them to see the show of wild an'i-mals under the tents.

2. Uncle John saw how eager they were to go, and he thought he would plague them a little. So they had not gone far on their way, when he stopped, and said, "Children, will it not do just as well, if,

instead of going to see the wild beasts, we go and take a look at the tame pigeons`?"

3. "No! no! no!" shouted three loud voices; "you said you would take us to see the lion in the tent, and there you must go." "But why can you not wait for that till the next Fourth of July ?" asked Uncle John.

we must

4. "No! no! no!" said the children, go now." They walked along a little way further, and then Uncle John stopped, and said there was a nail in the heel of his shoe, and he would rather not go on.

5. "No! no! no!" said the children again. "If you are lame, we will help you." And, with that, Charles began pushing him from behind, Emma took him by the arm, and little Frank seized hold of his cane, and they all tried to urge him on.

6. Their dog Nap helped them as much as he could, by barking and leading the way. You may see, by. the picture, what sort of a dog Nap was. He was named after Na-po'le-on Bon'a-parte.

7. At length Uncle John said he would go; and the children left off pulling him, whereupon he began to run. They soon caught him, however, and then they walked quietly along to the tents, for the weather was rather warm.

8. I cannot tell you about all that they saw and heard; about the monkeys and the tigers, the el'ephant and the lion, and the fine music which a man made by grinding a hand-organ. All that I know is, that Charles and Emma and Frank thought they had

never seen so many wonderful sights, nor had quite so good a time, before.

1. I HAVE heard a story of a dog, which shows won'der-ful per-se-verance and sa-gac'i-ty on the part of that an'i-mal. The story is told by Mrs. Lee, in her re'cent An'ec-dotes of An'i-mals, and is, I believe, a true story.

2. A man on horse'back, with a fine dog, was joined by another horse'man: they en'tered into conver-sa'tion, and the own'er of the dog began to boast of the clev'er-ness of his an'i-mal, whose name was Peto.

3. By way of proof, he dis-mounted, took a shil'ling from his purse, marked it, and put it under a stone. Then he mounted his horse again, and rode away with his com-pan'ion.

4. When he had gone four or five miles, he told the dog to go back and fetch the shilling. The willing creature seemed to un-der-stand his master; trotted off, and, in a short time, found the stone, and tried to get the shilling.

5. But the stone was large, and, after trying in vain to turn it over, or to scratch away the hard soil underneath it, he gave up the attempt, sat down beside it, and waited pa'tient-ly.

6. He had not waited long before two horsemen came up. On seeing them, the dog began to scratch

and howl, and show the plainest signs of anx-i'e-ty to overturn the stōne.

7. The horsemen thought that underneath the stone there was a rat, or weasel, or some such creature, and one of them dis-mount'ed and overturned it. To his sur-prise, he found a shilling; but, not sup-pos ́ing that this was the object of the dog's search, he put it into his purse, and then put his purse into his trousers' pock'et.

8. The dog seemed now sat'is-fied: he paid no more at-ten'tion to the stone, but followed the two strangers on their journey. They tried in vain to drive him away; and, at length, sup-pos'ing that he had lost his master, they allowed him to have his own way.

9. In the evening, when they reached the inn, the dog was still with them. He lay qui'et-ly under the table, and took readily the food they gave him. But, when they prepared to go to bed, nothing would sat'is-fy the dog, but he must sleep in the same room with the man he seemed to have chosen for his new master,- the man who had taken the shilling. Peto had his own way again, and a mat was pro-vid'ed for him at the foot of the bed.

1. MEANTIME the other two horsemen had reached their journey's end, and put up for the night. The

*Pronounced we'zl. But in model, level, and several other dissyllables ending in el, the sound of the e is retained.