object to look at; and the pain of the stings was such that her screams were heard far and wide.

11. The doc'tor was sent for; harts ́horn and other rem'e-dies were ap-plied. But it was some time be-fore Lucy looked like her-self again; and it was still longer before the pain was for-got'ten.

12. As soon as the wasps had left their nest, her mother had it brought into the house, and placed on the mantel-piece, that Lucy might see it daily. The sight of it proved a good lesson; and Lucy was often checked, as she was about to do wrong, by a sight of the wasps' nest.

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1. "THE squirrel is happy, the squirrel is gay,"
Little Henry exclaimed to his brother;
"He has nothing to do or to think of but play,
And to jump from one bough to another."

2. But William was older and wiser, and knew

That all play and no work would n't answer;
So he asked what the squirrel in winter must do,
If he spent all the summer a dancer.

3. The squirrel, dear Henry, is merry and wise,
For true wisdom and mirth go together;
He lays up in summer his winter supplies,

And then he don't mind the cold weather.

*The use of the apostrophe in denoting the possessive case may here be explained. The distinction in the use, as respects singular and plural nouns, should be remarked upon thus, the wasp's nest signifies the nest of the wasp; the wasps' nest signifies the nest of the wasps.

1. THE sun is in the west. You can look at it now, and the light is so soft that it will not hurt your eyes. It sheds a red tint on the wa'ter, on the green trees, and on the win'dows of the houses.

2. Is it not a fair scene? I can just see some cows stand'ing in the shallow stream to cool them-selves. They seem very small at this dis'tance. Soon a boy will come and drive them home.

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3. I see an elm-tree it is tall'er than the trees near it; and far off I see three trees that look like poplar-trees. There is a high hill, behind hit the sun seems to be sinking.

4. I say seems to be sinking; for it is not the san that sinks down below the earth, but the round c that rolls over till one half of it is turned a-way the sun.

5. Four hundred years ago, people did not be-lieve

that this earth on which we live was round. Co-lumbus believed it, and his belief led him, in the year 1492, to dis-cov'er A-mer'i-ca, where we now live. You may see a likeness of Columbus on page 97.

6. How do people know that the earth is round? There are many proofs, which you will un-der-stand as you grow older. But there is one proof which I think you can understand now, if you will give your

attention to it.

7. It has been found that, by starting from a certain point on the earth's surface, and keeping on straight in one di-rec'tion, we shall, in time, return to that same point from which we started. Now, if the earth were all flat, we could not do this.

8. If you will take an orange and put a pin in it, and then move your finger straight from the pin, in one direction, on the orange, you will find that your finger will come back to the pin. In the same way men have proved that the earth is round like an orange.

9. We say that the sun sets, because it seems to set. So we say that a man dies, because he seems to die; but it is his body only that dies. His soul that part of him which thinks, and which makes his tongue speak, and his eyes see, and his ears hear his soul cannot die.

10. We cannot see the soul, but we know that it exists, just as we know that many other powers exist which we cannot see. O let us be truthful, dil'imay be well pre-pared for

gent, and good, so that we

the body's death, which we know may happen at any

mo'ment.

(6, 12, 14, 16, 36, 42, 52, 103, 303, 323-9, 333-5.)

1. IN a king'dom of India, there lived, man'y years a-go, a king, who, one day, fell in'to the river. A man jumped in after him, seized him by the hair, and saved his life.

2. Now, this king was quite young- a mere boy; but he was proud and cru'el. There was an old law in the kingdom that he who laid his hands on a king should be put to death. This king chose to bring up this law a-gainst the man who had saved his life.

3. The king caused him to be put to death for having laid rude hands on a king. All the people had thought the king would re-ward the man, and they were much shocked when the man was put to death.

4. You, my chil'dren, will also be shocked; for you have been told to do good, not only to him who does good to you, but even to him who does evil to you.

5. Alas! there are some bad men who have no grat'i-tude; but we should be kind even to such men. They are not hap'py; and some day they may fare as bad'ly as did the young king, after he had put to death the faith'ful man who had saved his life.

6. One morn'ing soon after this e-vent, the young king was in a boat on a lake, when, in try'ing to stand up, he fell over-board. The men who rowed the boat could ea'si-ly have saved him; but they were a-fraid to touch him: they let him drown.

7. While he was struggling in the wa'ter, they took off their caps, and bowed to him with all re-spect,

and cried, "Long live the king!" but they did not move a fin'ger to help him: they feared to do it.

8. When they were after-wards re-proached with their con'duct, they re-plied: "We re-mem'bered too well the fate of the poor man who saved the king's life once be-fore." They ought to have saved his life, at any risk; but they did not do it.

9. And so the king's in-grat'i-tude end'ed in the loss of his own life. Be sure, my young friends, that grat'i-tude is a vir'tue which we all ought to prac ́tise, both for our own good and that we may add to the hap'pi-ness of oth'ers.

The little brook, that runs be-side the tree,

Keeps the roots moist, and helps the leaves to grow ; The tree's re-turn of good you soon shall see :

'T will shield the brook from Sum'mer's fervid glow.

(1, 14, 128, 154, 178, 279, 295, 303, 323-8.)

1. A MISER is a man who loves mon'ey, and hoards it, not for the sake of doing good to him-self or to oth'ers, but be-cause he de-sires to have and keep money for its own sake.

2. A rich miser, who had never given a pen'ny in alms to a poor man, once had a mon'key for his companʼion; but he hoped to sell even him a-gain for more than he had paid for him.

3. One day, the hard-hearted man went out, when the monkey got upon the chests full of money, and

*See the word contractions in the Index.