Amy, "please make me a little | say he felt a great deal happier sketch of that beautiful temple; directly he had said it. Now let here is a piece of paper!" "And us make a lesson about him. You here,' ," said his cousin Tom, "is make it, Lucy! a pencil." W. I suppose he looked very red in the face! P. Yes, and was obliged to pretend that there was not time eno'igh. The next morning his aunt was looking over his large picture, which his papa had put in a frame, and said to him," Reginald, we are going to have a fancy sale for the Orphan School. Here is a large drawing of the building, and I want you to make me six copics, on these little embossed cards." Z. What did he do? P. He brought them to me to be drawn; but, in half an hour, he came back again, saying, "No! I will not tell any more untruths!" So on the next morning, before breakfast, he went into the parlour, took the picture out of the frame, and burnt it; he gave back the cards to his aunt, cut out the leaf from Amy's album, told everybody the truth, and said, that he would not receive any more praise for that which was untrue. W. That was the best thing he could have done, and I dare L. It is a very easy lesson :NEVER GIVE UP TRUTH FOR THE SAKE OF PRAISE. P. Why, Lucy? L. Because the truth is better than the praise. While you keep the truth you do right, and God loves you! W. Besides, if you give up truth only for praise which you do not deserve, the praise will not last. Ion. And then you will lose the praise and the truth too. P. Now what sort of a boy will you call Reginald-good or bad? Ion. Well, I was thinking about it just now. It was bad to tell an untruth; but, when he found that he was going wrong, he stopped. Everybody does wrong sometimes; but he told the truth at last, so I call him good. W. And so do I. But, what do you call it, papa, when people pretend to be better than they are, for the sake of praise? P. That is called HYPOCRISY. W. Then let us put that word in the Lesson. Never give up truth for the sake of praise, because it leads to HYPOCRISY. ONCE there was a little boy With curly hair and pleasant eye, A boy who always spoke the truth, And never, never told a lie. And when he trotted off to school, The children all about would cry, There goes the curly-headed boy, The boy who never tells a lie. And everybody loved him so, Because he always told the truth, That every day, as he grew up, 'Twas said, "There goes the honest youth!" And when the people that stood near M. That will do. Put it under a wine-glass, on the table. I think that, to-day, instead of teaching you myself, I will make the butterfly give you his own history. You may ask him any question you please. visitors and a very happy time I have too, except when certain rude boys come slily behind me, with their caps in their W. Just please to keep to the subject before you, sir, if you want ever to get out of that glass again. We want the history of your birth and life. B. So I will. I cannot boast of having been born in a very genteel place, but it was not my fault. Ada. Ask him if he was born in a bower. B. No. I was born on a W. That will be a famous plan! Now, Sir Butterfly, we shall keep you prisoner for half-leaf. There were a number of an-hour. You are to give a faithful account of yourself, and answer all questions in a respectful manner. And, if you do thus to our satisfaction, we will give you your liberty again. Ion. And perhaps a piece of sugar too. But, mamma! how is he to speak? M. Oh, very easily. To be sure, he does not know the English dialect, but he can tell me in the butterfly tongue, and I will interpret. Butterfly. I AM A CABBAGE BUTTERFLY! W. Yes, we all know that. M. It is not good manners to interrupt him; he will be frightened. Butterfly. And I am as much a gentleman as any butterfly with red and gold wings, for I never demean myself by doing anything in particular. I fly about like a merry fellow as soon as the sun has aired the day, and the flowers are opened to receive little eggs on it, close together, looking just like pins' heads. One of these eggs must have been my sleeping apartment, for I know that after having dwelt in it for some time, the sun shone on me and my brothers until we were so warm that we woke up, and set out to seek more comfortable quarters. I have heard people say that the sun was "hatching" our eggs and bringing us to life, but I don't understand that, and do not believe it. Ion. What little butterflies you must have been! How curious you must have lookedone hundred of you flying away together! B. Oh! Do you not know better than that? We were not born butterflies, we were all very tiny caterpillars, with long rows of little feet, and large heads. I soon found, too, that I had a mouth, and jaws, but my mouth, instead of being placed in my head this way like the This mouths of your backboned ani- | them, and shut them up. skin appeared green at first, but, B. Well, then, I did, and digested it too. But that is nothing! I have read in one of Dr. Carpenter's books of a number of silkworms, which, in their eggs, only weighed half-anounce, altogether :-but, when they were full grown, they managed to eat four thousand ounces of mulberry-leaves in a day! Ion. Then each one, in a day, ate four thousand times as much as its body once weighed! I have been thinking, sir, that you must have grown rather quickly. B. I should think we did, indeed! we often burst our skins because they were not large enough, and had new ones. I changed my skin seven times! L. Mamma, are we to believe what he is saying? M. Yes, it is quite true. B. At last we found our appetites failing us. All my friends had grown to such a size, that I did not know them. Some of them, I saw, began to hang up their bodies by little threads; and I observed a new skin growing all over them-head and body-until it quite covered W. Ah! I can tell you what was the matter. You were changed into a chrysalis. B. I am quite in the dark as to what I was, or where I was. It was very dark inside, until one day a part of my shell opened. Oh! then I found out strange things! I had new eyes, with which I saw my new thin body wrapped up in four very thin wings. I had six long legs, two long "antenna" on my head, two "palpi ;" and instead of my old mouth, just look at my new one, what a beautiful curly trunk it is! No more cabbageleaf! Such a mouth was not made to eat that. I fly from one garden to another, dip my tube far down into the flowers, and suck up their sweetest juices. If you will let me out on the lawn, I will then shew you how I do it. L. Oh no, sir! we cannot spare you yet. We want, more particularly, to observe your different parts, and to find out what division you belong to. B. Well, then, notice first my body. You see I am not troubled with any such thing as a "backbone," but my skin is hardened to keep the body in shape. Ion. Yes, and I have been noticing that your skin is not all in one piece, but it is divided, and forms little hoops all round you. B. Ah! This is much better than having a backbone. Notice how I can twist my body about. W. I see! it is because these hoops are jointed together. L. And they make an outside framework. B. Some of my friends have very large horny rings. The beetles, and the locusts, the grasshoppers, crickets, bees, and wasps. We have, too, some very distant relations which have shelly rings round their bodies, such as the lobster, and others. W. I think that is enough. Now, we will make a lesson about you. Now, Lucy, write down-1st. "His body has an outside--no, say external-skeleton, made of a number of jointed rings, which do not consist of bone, but of horny, or shelly substance. B. And, Miss Lucy! Please to look at me again. You may write down that I have six legs. Some people in our division, the spiders, have eight. The crabs and lobsters have ten. And some nearly a hundred legs; but none have less than six. W. Pray, sir, what colour is your blood? Red? B. I never heard of such a thing! Do you think I could be so nasty? My blood was of a beautiful green colour when I was a caterpillar. Now it is a greenish white. L. Thank you, that will do nicely. We only wanted to understand about these three parts. Now, see us write down your description." 66 LESSON 2. The Butterfly and many other animals have- 1st. A BODY with an external skeleton consisting of rings, made of horny or shelly substance, and jointed together. 2nd. LIMBS, never less than six in number. 3rd. BLOOD, of a greenishwhite colour. B. But let me tell you about my compound eyes,—and airvessels. I'll surprise you! L. No, thank you. That is sufficient. We only wanted to hear of those three parts. Mamma, what name shall I give this division? M. "Jointed Animals." L. (writing), They are therefore called JOINTED ANIMALS. This division includes the Bee, the Fly, the Gnat, the— B. I will tell you some names: "Papilio Brassica," "Gentlemen of the class Arachnida,” of the class Crust— W. Thank you, but we would rather not hear them in Latin. We will write out their names, on the nursery wall. B. But then, you won't know their addresses. Ion. We shall know that in time. Now I will let you out, sir. We are very much obliged to you. Shall I give you the piece of sugar? B. I'd rather not, I thank you. W. But pray stop a minute. Would you like "a drop of beer?" B. Bah! How can you offer alcohol to a gentleman! Come and see me sip nectar on the lawn. THE ANCIENT BRITONS. Papa. Do you remember the last History lesson? W. Yes, papa, we learned of some Britons who lived in a savage state, and were called Hunters, and of others in a pastoral state-Shepherds. You were going to tell us of others in a more civilized state. P. Very well. At the south of Britain there was a part called "Cantia." W. I have read that that was the ancient name for Kent. P. Yes; we call the district "Kent" now. In this part are the white cliffs of Dover, which are opposite France, and can be seen by the French people. The merchants in Gaul (as France was then called) would frequently cross over the narrow straits, in ships. L. I should think that was the reason why the people were more civilised. P. That was partly the reason. Perhaps they had once been shepherds. Whilst they were watching the sheep, who cropped the grass in the field, they would not have much else to do, and would have time to think. Then they might have thought that the earth, which was always growing food for the sheep, would also yield food for them, if they cultivated it, L. How much good comes from thinking! Ion. But is it not wonderful, that, sometimes, a whole nation will live a thousand years without thinking of digging up the ground? P. Yes. But when the Britons had thought of doing so, they used their oxen to draw the plough; they sowed corn; they brewed ale; they baked bread; and they made butter and cheese. By thinking, they learned how to make useful everything they had: they used the stalks of the corn-the straw-for thatching their cottages; the wool of the sheep for coarse clothing; and the brass and iron they made into rings for money. When they had learned to till the ground, they began to divide it into farms. Perhaps each family had a cottage on their lot of ground. The men whom these cottages belonged to, would live near to each other, so that they might defend themselves, and take care of their property. Thus they would form " Villages." Such people, you see, were more civi lised than the shepherds. They were in an Agricultural state, and were called HUSBANDMEN. W. So that there were three classes of people in the island-SAVAGES, SHEPHERDS, and HUSBANDMEN. L. Now, papa, will you tell us about their religion. Did they worship God? Poor peo P. Not the true God. ple! They had no idea that there was one great God. They thought that there was one God who understood medicine, and took care of people who were sick; they called him "Apollo." Another God, they thought, understood buying and selling, and took care of the merchants; they called him "Mercury." Another was the God of war, called "Mars." They worshipped the sun too;-and, they were taught how to worship these Gods by their priests, who were called Druids. Ion. What did they do when they worshipped their gods, papa? P. Ah! I will tell you. You would have been frightened very much if you had gone to one of their places of worship. In the midst of a forest of oak-trees, you would have seen a circle of immense stones,some of them five times as high as a |