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"INASMUCH AS YE HAVE DONE IT | you cannot help it.

UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE MY
BRETHREN, YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO

ME.'

W. Is that real, papa ?

Ever since the world was made, every generation has been learning something from the generation before it, and so the world has become either better or

worse.

W. Then we had better learn as much as we can, and get our minds full of good thoughts.

P. Of course it will be. Do you not know that heaven is as "real" a place as earth? Joseph says that the treasures he has up there are safer than anything he has in this world; he will never lose them. L. That is true, because the After we have had our week's lesBible says so.

P. Now, Willie, you see why I want to teach you more, and to give you a lesson every day. You will, I hope, grow up to be a man, and then you must teach others. You need not have a school. This world is a school. Here people will learn either good things or bad things from you, and

P. True, Willie, a lesson will only cost ten minutes of your play-time.

sons, we will print them in a book.
So, if I can not only teach you, but all
the boys and girls in England, do
you not think I shall be glad?
W. Oh yes! And I shall be glad
Ten minutes a-day!

to learn, now.

that is not much time. I should be glad to have two lessons a-day, so that I might become a good teacher.

1 GOD's presence shineth everywhere,
By night as well as day,

To guard us by his constant care,
And guide us on our way.

2 Although we are but poor and weak,
Children of sin and dust;

Yet we can still our Father seek,
And in him put our trust.

3 And we are strong in him to dare
All that is good and right;
His will to do, his love to share,
Dear children in his sight!

4 Then, let us offer daily praise.
For mercies daily given;

And joyful songs of gladness raise,
In gratitude to heaven.

VERTEBRATED ANIMALS. Lucy. Mamma, what shall we learn by noticing the Animals? Mamma. Many useful and pleasant things. You will see in what perfect order God's works are arranged. Buonaparte's army was once setting out on a march. There were soldiers with red coats, white coats, dark-blue coats,-soldiers on black horses, grey horses, and brown horses, all mixed together in a crowd. There were flags in one part, tents in another, cannons, waggons, waggonhorses, and servants. If you had seen them, you would have said, What confusion!

But, a few hours afterwards, Buonaparte was there! The red soldiers were all standing in straight lines-the blue-coats were arranged in a square. The waggons were loaded, and placed behind each other in long rows. The flags and cannon were placed at regular distances. Everything was in good order; and the army was beautiful to look upon.

W. Ah! I dare say Buonaparte knew all the soldiers and regiments. How I should like to be able to arrange soldiers in such beautiful order.

M. I can give you something better to do than that. The order of soldiers is only man's order; but amongst the ten thousand animals which God has placed all over the world, there is perfect order; far more beautiful than Buonaparte could make with his men.

W. There does not appear to be any order at all. Every one seems to grow according to its own fancy! When a boy and an oyster have left off growing, how different they look! Yet they are both animals. Think of the Elephant and the Sprat; an Owl and a Worm; a Camelopard

and a Frog; a Wolf and an Eel; a Star-Fish and a Sheep; a Slug and a Peacock; a Bear and a Butterfly. They may be all brothers, but they seem to me as disorderly in their appearance, as the soldiers were before they marched.

M. Yet, do you know that they are all arranged in a much better order than Buonaparte could make? They become different in their size and shape-not according to their own fancies, but by the intention of their Maker. No doubt he has a reason for every difference that you have ever noticed in them. Every animal has its proper place in nature, and from the highest to the lowest they are all connected together in perfect regularity. They form, as it were, one long chain; and when you begin to see this, you will find the animals even more beautiful to look upon than Buonaparte's army.

L. I should like to have seen them when Noah led them into the ark! Perhaps God arranged them for him.

W. I should like to find out what regiment the Dog belongs to, and the Cat.

M. It will be some time before you will be able to do that properly. I may tell you that all the animals are arranged in four great divisions. I think I will at once lead you to observe these divisions before you begin to notice the animals more closely.

L. Please, mamma, let us begin directly. Here is our dog Fan; doos she belong to a division?

M. Certainly; take her on your lap and notice her.

W. Now, Miss Fan, what are you made of? Flesh, blood, skin, and bones.

Ion. That is more than all animals have: the lobster which mamma bought yesterday had no bones in it.

M. Tell me some of the Dog's bones.
L. Her rib bones.
A. Her leg bones.

W. Her jaw bones.

Ion. I have found such a great bone here. It runs all along her back, from her head down to her tail.

M. This is the largest bone of all. It is the pillar of her body-the ribs and most of the other bones are joined to it. It is called "the Backbone, or Spine."

L. These bones make a sort of framework for her body. Just as the beams and rafters of a house make a framework for it.

W. The Lobster you spoke of Ion -although it has not any boneshas a framework to its body, as well as our dog.

Ion. I suppose its shell is its framework. But its shell is outside its body.

W. Well, then, it has an outside framework-why should it not !— the dog's framework is inside its body. M. We call the dog's framework a skeleton. So we will say of her 1st,-Her body is built on an internal skeleton, the principal part of which is the backbone.

M. To procure food for this body, it must carry it about from one place to another.

W. So it has four legs, as all animals have.

L. Not all animals. The fly has six; the spider has eight; and the oyster

M. Right, Willie, but it has four limbs; two for walking, and two for flying; and fishes have only limbs for swimming.

M. The dog's food forms blood, which is different from that of some animals.

W. Yes; the blood of the butterfly is white.

Ion. And Fan has red blood. M. We shall only notice these three parts at present-her skeleton, limbs, and blood.

Now, listen carefully. All animals that resemble her in these three parts, form one of the great divisions, and are called Backboned Animals. Let us make a lesson about her. LESSON 1.

"Our Dog has (1) an internal skeleton, with a backbone or spine. "She has (2) four limbs.

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(3) She has red blood, and is called a BACKBONED ANIMAL."

Ion. I have been thinking while we were saying it, that I am a backboned animal, for I have all these things.

M. That is true, Ion. Tell me some other backboned animals.

L. The Cat, the Cow, the Horse. W. The Fox, the Wolf, the Elephant.

Ion. The Parrot, Eagle, Frog, Whale, Lizard, Herring, and Sprat, are backboned animals.

M. So is the Serpent, but it has no feet. Some of the Lizards have only two feet. You will re

W. has none. The worm has no member, then, that not all backboned animals have four limbs.

legs.

Ion. And the centipede has a hundred.

M. Nearly all animals with an internal skeleton, if they have not four legs, have four parts, called limbs, with which they move about from place to place.

W. Our canary has an inside skeleton, but it has only two legs.

L. The Eels have not, and many of the fishes.

Ion. I have just thought such a good thought, Willie. We will write down on a large piece of paper the names of all the backboned animals we know, so as to make a division. What a large one it will be!

W. Yes; and we will take great

care of it, and whenever we find out | of its parts,-its Skeleton, Limbs, a new backboned animal, or hear of and Blood. one, we will join its name to the list. L. And we will pin the list on to the nursery wall.

M. That will be a very good plan, and when you have made a large list, I will teach you to arrange them again into classes. Remember, once more, that to know a Backboned animal properly you must notice three

And here is something else for you. If you like to call your division by a Latin name, instead of an English one, do not write "Backboned," but "Vertebrated" animals.

W. I think that is a better word. "I, Willie, am a VERTEBRATED ANIMAL! Of course I am! I don't like to be called 'Backboned.""

I SING th' almighty power of God,
That made the mountains rise;
That spread the flowing seas abroad,
And built the lofty skies.

I sing the wisdom that ordained
The sun to rule the day;

The moon shines full at his command,
And all the stars obey.

I sing the goodness of the Lord,

That filled the earth with food;

He formed the creatures with his word,
And then pronounced them good.

Lord, how thy wonders are displayed,
Where'er I turn mine eyes;

If I survey the ground I tread,
Or gaze upon the skies!

There's not a plant or flower below,

But makes thy glory known;
And clouds arise, and tempests blow,
By order from thy throne.

Creatures, as numerous as they be,

Are subject to thy care;

There's not a place where we can flee,
But GOD IS PRESENT THERE.

Watts.

THE ANCIENT BRITONS. Lucy. Please, papa, Wednesday is to be the History morning. Will you teach us about a King before you go to town?

Papa. Yes; I am quite ready. Once there was a King. But, stop! would you not like to learn about the place he lived in first?

W. Oh, yes! then we shall understand about the King much better.

P. I know of an Island which in the old times was even more beautiful than it is now. Ah, if you could have seen it! Some parts were covered with woods and thick forests of oak, where many wild animals lived. There were mountains, where the eagles built their nests. Lakes with fish and wild fowl. There were mines under the ground, with iron, copper, and tin. At the south, there were long downs sloping to wards the sea, and covered with grass as smooth as green velvet;-thousands of sheep feed there now-and not far off from the downs were tall cliffs made of chalk, from which you could see another country called Gaul.

W. Why, that must be England! P. Let us wait and see. Some parts would have made a pretty picture. Near the woods and lakes were many round huts made of wicker work, or of boughs of trees covered with the skins of animals.

The natives, too, were worth seeing. I once saw a picture of a native going out in the morning, to hunt for his dinner. He had very few clothes on, which were made of skins; and his body was painted different colours.

L. Then, I am sure, Willie, he was not an Englishman.

far into the shady woods, to find and kill some animal. But, perhaps, after hunting for some time, they would come back with only a few roots, and some acorns and berries.

W. Poor fellow! and is that all he would have for dinner?

P. Yes; but perhaps on a Tuesday he would kill a deer. On Wednesday, he might shoot a bird. On Thursday, catch a fish.

W. A salmon, perhaps. Where would he catch it?

P. He would catch a salmon in the river; but sometimes he would take his net and canoe, and go on the lake.

L. On Friday, he would only have some milk.

P. Perhaps nothing else. In this manner the natives lived on one part of the Island. The people could make little else but huts, canoes, arrows, spears, and nets. The only animal they had for a companion was the dog, who liked that sort of life; and the only objects for which they seemed to live were to eat, and to fight.

L. Why, they were not much better than the lower animals. I dare say the dog thought himself as good as his master!

P. Yes; their state was the lowest state of mankind;-such men are in a savage state, and are called HUNTERS.

L. Oh! we read about that state of man in the Bible; about Nimrod, the great hunter, and others.

P. Even now there are people in the world in such a state-the North American Indians, the Australians, the New Zealanders

W. And most of the Africans. P. He was standing near a hut, P. In another part of the Island, with his dog by his side, and a bow-in the beautiful valleys-some of in his hand; and off they both went, the natives were in a better state.

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