"Come, my little man, you and I must be friends."

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Seek those things which are Above."

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ELLEN MANSEL.

CHAPTER I.

"Dim or unheard the words may fall,
And yet the heaven-taught mind
May learn the sacred air, and all
The harmony unwind."

Christian Year.

HERE'S the money, and mind you make haste about it." The speaker was a man about forty years of age, but he might have been more, so old had his manner of living for a long time past made him appear. The words, roughly spoken, were addressed to his little daughter, a child of some ten years of age. Let us accompany Ellen on her errand.

George Street was her destination, a street, like others to be found in many of our large towns in England, distinguished for dirt and sin in all their worst forms, notwithstanding the noble efforts that had been made for some time amongst its wretched inhabitants by the