James, however, forgot this, and often had to walk to the City by himself. Sometimes he was twenty minutes after time, and, before the end of the first year, he was always late.

One day, as Jacob was dusting the office, James said to him, "Why, Jacob, did you go out to buy that sheet of letter paper?—I could have given you one from my desk."

"But then, again," said Jacob, "you would be depriving our master of it, and if you deprive him of the least thing in the world, it is not honest. We are not honest servants unless we care exactly as much for our master's good, as we do for our own."

"But it cannot matter about such little things," said James; "1 always use this paper for my own letters."

"Yes, and sometimes the postage stamps, too," said Jacob. "Look at these two letters of yours, which are going out with the others! You have been using stamps which"

But, just at this moment, their master came in to ask James a question; and Jacob saw that, as he passed the letters, and took up two or three to examine, James seemed afraid lest he should notice the two which belonged to him-and he said to himself, "Ah, James is not quite sure that he was doing right, after all."

Another day, as Jacob was talking to James, he said to him— "These circulars might be delivered by hand, every month-so there would be 3s. 6d. saved each time. If they were your own letters you would let me take them. This is what I call honesty. Not only,we must not deprive, but we must try and save. To be quite honest servants, we must take just as much

care of our master's things as we do of our own-I said so before."

But, James did not mind. He could not, unless the principle of honesty was a fixed principle. He had forgotten to be strictly honest in little things, and now he could not always hold fast to the principle in greater matters,—and his master noticed this. He noticed Jacob, too, who still loved to be quite honest always, and took great pleasure in being as honest as he possibly could. When his master saw this, he did not forget.

So matters went on,-and in time there came a change.

Margaret had waited at the window in West Street an hour beyond the time-so the blinds had been drawn, and the tea made ready, while the fire flickered, and the candles flared, as they had done four years before. That evening, James came home very late, and Jacob an hour after him; and, when James, who had been sad and silent all the evening, had left the room, Jacob told his grandmother the news that James had been made an under clerk,and, that he, Jacob, had been promoted to James's place.

I never knew the exact reason why this happened-but heard that their master had long been accustomed to trust Jacob more than James.

Five more years passed on. Those lodgings in West Street had been let to somebody else, and a greater change still had come. Jacob had a house of his own; and James had lodgings in it. Emily had grown up rather tall, and I heard, that in two more years she was to be Jacob's wife.

Margaret was still a kind nurse to them all. She tried to cheer up James-but he had a sad look;

VERTEBRATED ANIMALS. WILLIE'S FRAMEWORK-THE

LIMBS.

M. You learned, Willie, that there are two bones in your forearm. Name them.

W. The bone which carries the arm, called THE ULNA;-and

The bone which carries the wrist and hand, called THE RADIUS.

Ion. The ulna, mamma, you said, was joined to the elbow by a hinge joint, so as to give it a motion up and down.

W. And the radius is joined to the wrist by another kind of joint, which gives it a rotary motion.

M. And, I also said that these two motions are of great importance, so that the hand may have all possible freedom of motion. You, Willie, have to use your hand all day long, for all kinds of purposes. Sometimes you grasp objects behind you-or objects at your side-sometimes you have to grasp objects which twist round in every variety of direction - or change their direction suddenly.

W. Yes, when we swing in our playground, how we twirl about

sometimes.

M. These two bones, however, cannot be found in all vertebrated animals. If you notice the fore limb of a horse, you will find that he has not any hand as you have, but only a solid hoof-so also, the cows and many other animals have hoofs.

As these animals can only use their hoofs for walking, they do not require so much motion in te joints and, if you examine tle bones of their fore limbs, you wi find that they have only one bone, the radius; scarcely a trace of the ulna can be seen.

The apes and monkeys, again, who climb round, and live on, the branches of trees-jumping and swinging from morning till night in all directions have both of these bones. So, too, have the sloths, which live hanging underneath the branches-and the flesh-eating animals, which use their claws for seizing and struggling with their powerful prey.

But we must not stop now, Willie, to compare your framework with that of others-you will have to compare most of your bones with those of the lower animals; as we proceed, perhaps we shall find curious alterations in some of them.

W. Now, mamma, we are to describe the bones of the hind limbs-the legs. I have brought out the picture.

M. You may point out these bones, but it will hardly be necessary to describe them,-for, by comparing them with those of the arm, you will find that they are much alike.

W. Yes the bone of the upper leg is like that of the upper arm— only it is rather larger—and it has a ball and a socket joint at the top. What is that joint called, mamma?

M. It is called the hip jointand, the long bone is called the thigh bone. Instead of an elbow joint in the leg, we have—

L. A knee joint.

M. And there is a little bone in front of the knee such as you do not find in the elbow. It serves to protect the knee, and has other more curious uses.

W. I see it in the drawing, mamma, with its name. It is called the knee pan.

M. Instead of a radius in the

The HIND LIMBS have several parts corresponding to those of the fore limbs: viz.-The hip joint—the knee joint-the ankle joint-the thigh bone-the knee pan-the shin bone-the splint bone-the instepthe heel-the toes.

W. There, mamma. Does that finish the lessons on our framework?

M. Not quite-there are several other facts which we might notice, but I will only point out one thing more-that is, the uniformity of this framework.

If you draw a line through the middle of a vertebrated animal, from the head to the foot, you will find that both halves have the same number of bones, they are also similar in shape-or, as we say, uniform.

W. That is only a Latin word for "one shape," mamma.

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M. There are altogether 256 of these bones (if we count the teeth, which cannot strictly be called bones). Suppose, now, that, to finish our framework lessons, I make a list of all your bones. If we have not time to learn all their uses, there will be no harm in remembering their names.

Ion. Oh, do, mamma, please!and will you write their Latin names, too, because one day we might want to know them.

W. And, mamma, will you be kind enough to write how many there are of each kind, so that we may know how many there are which we have not noticed. M. Very well.