**Each Reading Lesson is preceeded by a Spelling Lesson suitable for children about to offer themselves for examination in the First Standard. 25, 31, 41, 48, 55, 63, 71, 78, 85, 92 Money Table ..............page 96 Subtraction, Exercises in.. pages 11, 19, 28, 35, 44, 51, 59, 66, 74, 80, 87, 95 pages 11, 19, 25, 35, 42, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 87, 95, and in Frontispiece. Round the edge of a rocky mountain in Wales two goats were one day seen coming towards each other. They met at a point where, so narrow was the ridge, and so very steep, that neither of them could turn round or pass each other. There stood the two goats on that high mountain ridge, so narrow that it was a wonder that they could stand there at all; there they stood for a while, head to head, as if they were thinking what to do. If either of them had been stubborn, and if they had tried their strength in pushing each other out of the way, it was certain that one or both would have been dashed down into the depths below. To those who from a distance beneath were looking at them, to see what would become of them, there seemed no way of escape. At length, one of the goats was seen very gently to bend first its fore legs and then its hind legs; and, as soon as it had thus crouched down, the other goat, in a very careful yet nimble manner, stepped upon the shoulders of the other, and passed over. Then each of the goats pursued his own way in safety. If you go to an Arab town or village, and pass through the gate and along the narrow, filthy streets, you will very often see in a little low room built of mud bricks baked in the sun, and roofed with branches of trees and straw, rows of little boys squatting on the floor, with their feet doubled under them, reading, and writing on a broad piece of black board, about as large as our school slates. The teacher sits at the head of the room on a palmleaf mat, telling them what to write and hearing them read. In the desert they have no boards, but must write with their fingers on the sand. If you look over their shoulders, you will notice that they write backward, or from right to left, so that an Arab book begins at what we call the end. Their first lesson, after learning the A B C, is writing out the names of God, as All Seeing, &c., about eighty names in all. When these are all learned, they begin with the chapters of the Koran, the Arab Bible; and a boy's teaching is finished when he has learned to write and has got by heart, after their way, all the chapters of the Koran. Exercise in Writing.-I. The chapters of the Koran. A lion, faint with heat, and weary with hunting, was laid down to take his repose under the spreading boughs of a thick, shady oak. It happened that while he slept a number of scrambling mice ran over his back, and waked him. Upon which, starting up, he clapped his paw upon one of them, and was just going to put it to death, when the little creature implored his mercy in a very moving manner, begging him not to stain his noble name with the blood of so small a beast. The lion, thinking over the matter, thought proper to do as he was desired, and straightway let his little trembling captive go. Not long after, being in the forest in pursuit of his prey, he chanced to run into the toils of the hunters; not being able to get out of which, he set up a most hideous and loud roar. The mouse, hearing the voice, and knowing it to be the lion's, repaired to the place, and bid him fear nothing, for that he was his friend. Then straight he fell to work, and with his sharp little teeth, gnawing in two the knots of the toils, set the royal brute free. Arithmetic-I. Exercises in Addition. "Father, may I go and play to-day with the swing?" said a little boy, just as he was getting ready to go out. "No, my child, not to-day," answered the father; "to-morrow you can go." To-morrow it was too long for the restless child who wished so much to swing. A little later, when his father had gone out, the child standing at the window, saw right before him the swing hanging between two trees at the bottom of the garden. "If I swung a little," he said to himself, "nobody would know it. I will only have just one turn, and then I will leave off." So he ran into the garden, and climbed into the swing. Great was his joy for a few minutes, and he could not help crying between each swing, "I wonder why father said this morning that I must not swing.' All at once the cord broke! The child fell to the ground. His mother, in terror, ran out with a servant; they lifted him up, and carried him into the house. The poor little fellow had broken his arm in falling from the swing. His sorrow was very bitter when he saw his mother's grief; he had, too, to bear a great deal of pain when the doctor "set" the arm; but what vexed him most was to see his father come home at night, bringing a splendid rope, quite new, |