d from day to day, chattering like magpies, laughing, singing, shouting, and danci

not by right partake, with a keen eye for the beautiful, and a sensitive heart to appreciate nature, could not apparen

perfumed air, frail anemones trembled in the wind, and violets flourished in the shade. The blood-root lifted its lily-white blossoms to the light, and the cream-tinted, fragile bells of the uvularia nestled by its side. Passing the wood and its embroidered flowery border, a brook ran across the road. The rippling waters were almost hidden by the bushes which grew upon its banks, where the wild honeysuckle and touch-me-not, laurels and eglantine, mingled their beautiful blossoms, and wooed the bee and

the trees refreshingly fell. Amelia turned her face toward the Run, and lulled by the gentle murmuring of the water, and the humming of the insects, was soon quietly asleep; Susie, with an apron full of

t great lump on his back!" and she pointed with her finger to the

ing that very place yesterday,-let me see," and taking the book s

erested. "And is there something i

here, on the next page is an elephant; see his great tusks and his monstrous long trun

ration

d the little colored face was turned up full of animat

by her short nap. "I don't see why not. You can't go to school you know, b

ed the eager child. "Oh, Miss Mely, if y

y virtue of superior age, constituting herself the teacher; "do you see t

e ready pupil,

t a name, and when you have learned to know them all perfectly, so that you ca

asked Tidy

of books and papers and t

s sure I can," said T

ow it's made,-two lines go right up to a point, an

A

. There's a straight line down and t

B

Agnes was our governess at home before we came here to school. She made me take a newspaper,-see, here's a piece,-and prick the letters on it

a heart as Tidy set herself to hers. Down she squatted on the rock, and did not leave the place till her first task

k and know how to read it, she would ask nothing more. She didn't care so much about the Bible. If she had known, as you do, children, that it is God's word, no doubt she would have been anxious to learn what it contained. But this truth she had never heard, a