TRUTH.-MR. GANEALL'S BARGAIN. P. We learned last Monday about speaking more than the truth,— "Exaggeration " we called it.

W. Ah! and there are some people just like the water-cress man. Now, I know why mamma went to that quiet, old-fashioned-looking shop, when she bought Lucy's merino dress. There is a large shop in the High Street, with plate-glass windows, which nearly reach down to the pavement, and when we passed it there were bills up about FAILURE! 4000 PIECES OF MERINO!-SELLING OFF! And there were large tickets with six notes of admiration on them, saying, "Very Cheap! The Cheapest House!!" just as the old man said his were the best water-cresses.

Moral Lesson.

W. I think I can guess. Because she talked so quickly, and did not give mamma time to ask her any questions. She said so much about what she could do, and how well she could make pastry. Mamma said she spoke so fast, that she had not time to think whether she was speaking more than the truth, or not.

Ion. And I know another thingMamma did not like her, because she wore green kid gloves. Those things were exaggerations. Her wearing them was as much as to say, "I am a lady," when she was not. What is the use of a servant wanting to look like a lady?-it is just as bad as a lady trying to look like a servant.

W. Oh no. She said that those bills were great "exaggerations' more than the truth; and that she would not trust the people who kept that shop,-she bought the stuff for my pinafores there, and it soon wore out. When we went to the quiet-looking shop, Lucy and I thought it must be a dear place, for the draper only brought us two things which were cheap, and he did not say that they were very cheap. He called the other pieces good, and mamma seemed to believe all that he said.

Lucy. And, you remember, Willie, when Mamma engaged a new servant last Wednesday? Do you know why she did not have the one who came on Tuesday night, with such a fine bonnet?

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P. Come, you are going on a little too fast, Master Willie. Listen to another tale :

Mr. PETER GANEALL was a man who thought that all money was gain. If you had asked him, "What are you thinking about?" he would have said, "Money;" and if you had asked him, "What is the best thing in the world?" he would have said, "Money."

He ordered a new coat from the tailor, and said to him, that the cloth of the last coat was not good, when it was,-and he made the tailor charge 4s. less. So he took care of the four shillings, and put them in a drawer, and said he had gained that money.

W. No. He had only bought the

money. He had given the truth for it;-that was a dear bargain.

P. Once, he hired a new groom to take care of his horse. He told him that the wages he wanted were too much, and that he knew a groom who would come for £16 a year.

W. Well, there was no harm in saying that, if it was true.

P. It was true, Willie, but then, it was not all the truth. The groom he spoke of was a bad groom, who did not understand horses-and he did not tell him that.

W. Ah! I see now, he told him less than the truth; and that is just as bad as saying more than the truth. Ion. He ought to have been at the public meeting last week. He should have heard that great speaker, with the loud voice, who cried out, "We will have the truth, the whole truth." W. And he said, "We will have nothing but the truth." The watercress man would have agreed to that. P. But I am going to tell you about Mr. Ganeall's house. When your Aunt Mary and I were children, your grandfather lived next door to him. His father built that house. There were fourteen windows in front, and a pretty doorway with steps to it. There was a long path leading to the doorway, with a row of trees on each side; and there was a broad green lawn, with a pond and fountain in the middle of it At the back of the house, there was a fine flower-garden, another green lawn, a shrubbery, an orchard, and a kitchen-garden.

Oh! it was a beautiful place, and we liked it because it was always so quiet! Mr. Ganeall never asked us to come and see him, for he did not like children, so we used to sit, on summer afternoons, on half-holidays, and look over the palings.

We would often sit still and look -for an hour. The yellow light of

the sun would steal in quietly amongst the dark leaves of the shrubbery, and slily brighten them up. Then it would come out through the trees, and spread itself over the lawn. Then, lanky shadows of branches, and thick shadows of leaves, would show themselves on the grass, and wave backwards and forwards, as the wind moved the trees. Ah! but the wind only moved them gently! It was afraid to be rude, and make a noise there! so it only made a breezy sound, and rustled the leaves to make them sing "Hush!" It knew that it had no right to be out on a sunny afternoon, especially in so very quiet a place.

For there, every one was quiet. The white butterflies flew over the flower-beds quietly. The sparrows just shook themselves in the dust, and hopped about without chirping a sound. All we heard, was the buzz of some sleepy old bee, or some idle grasshopper's "erick." Even the little brown spaniel, who lived in the house, and had to go into the shrubbery and back again for something, left the path, and trod with his soft feet on the velvet grass; and, instead of barking at us and wagging his tail, he looked up, and passed on with his nose to the ground. So everything seemed to be dozing, and sleepy, except when a great saucy crow, who was flying high over our heads, squalled out, and made a loud "Kar-r-r-r" as much as to say to us, " How do you like that?"

And, that was why we liked the place because it always seemed so still. It seemed as if nobody lived there, for Mr. Ganeall was in the city all day.

W. I should think that the ser vants enjoyed themselves the most.

P. We often thought that it was too large a house for a man who had not any children, or any wife. He only seemed to like it because it was quiet.

But, one morning before breakfast, there came a strange man with a brass thing, something like a telescope, which stood on three legs. He put it down just between our house and Mr. Ganeall's, and peeped through it, whilst another man stood a long way off, and held up a tall, straight staff, for him to look at. The staff had numbers printed on it, which he counted. So I asked the man what they were both doing, and he said they were making "trial levels," and that in about four or five years' time there would be a branch rail-road, running just between Mr. Ganeall's park and our garden.

You should have seen how angry Mr. Ganeall was when he heard about it. He said that he didn't like noises, and he would not have a noisy railway close to his house, when he wanted to be quiet; and at last, he said that he would let the house to some one else, and go away. About a week afterwards, when we were all quite sure that the railroad would be made, we saw an advertisement in the Times

TO LET, ON LEASE OF 21 YEARS,

an eligible FAMILY MANSION, situate in Lower Clapton, containing 24 Rooms, with Coach-house, Stables, Out-houses, Green-houses, and good supply of spring water. The House has nine acres of meadow-land attached, with Orchard, Shrubbery, Kitchen garden, &c.,

and commands an extensive view of the River Lea. For terms, and cards to view, apply to X. Y. Z., opposite the Orphan Asylum, Clapton.

W. Ah! he never put a word in the advertisement about the railway. He was keeping back a part of the truth again.

Lucy. What is a "lease," papa? P. The lease was an agreement that the gentleman who took the house should live in it for 21 years he had to pay 180 guineas a year for rent.

L. But he would not have agreed

to pay so much, if he had known that a railway was coming to disturb him?

P. No. And Mr. Ganeall thought he had made another good bargain. The whole truth, however, came out soon afterwards; and then, of course, the gentleman wanted to pay less rent. But Mr. Ganeall said, "No, he would not take less."

L. What did the gentleman do? P. He began what is called a "lawsuit," that means, they both went to a Judge, that he might say who was right.

L. What did the Judge say?

P. The Judge said, "That if Mr. Ganeall did not know before the lease was made, that the railroad was to be there, it was not his fault, and he ought not to have less rent; but, that if he did know, he ought to have said so, and ought to say so now.

L. I suppose he confessed then that he did know?

P. No. He said he was not obliged to say anything. But at last, one of the servants who had lived with him came forward, and told the Judge about the man who had made the "trial-levels,” and spoke the whole truth.

W. And what was done then?

P. Then Mr. Ganeall had to receive less rent; and he found that in trying to gain too much for his house he had not gained anything, but had lost much money. He had

to pay his own lawyer's bill, which was £200 68. 8d.; and the bill of the gentleman's lawyer, which was £319 78. 3d.

L. Let me make a lesson about him, papa!-It is wrong to speak less than the truth, for that is what is it?

P. PREVARICATION.

W. Mr. Ganeall paid very dear for that lesson. He gave up the Truth, £319 7s. 3d. and £200 6s. 8d. That was not a good "bargain" at all.

THE FOUR SUB-KINGDOMS. W. Mamma, you did not, last Tuesday, tell us the names of any branched animals.

Ion. But, Willie, I have been looking in papa's Natural History books, and have found out several. There is one which we saw when we were in a boat near Brighton. The boatman called it a "Jelly fish," and in the book it is called a "SEA NETTLE."

And there is another which has a round shell covered all over with prickles, like a Hedgehog. It is called the SEA URCHIN, OF SEA EGG. There is another very beautiful one, I called the SEA ANEMONE. There are also others called CORALS, which form rocks.

W. There are seven kinds. I will count them :-The Hydra; Star

fish; Jelly-fish; Sea-egg; Sea

anemone; and Coral. But, mamma, you gave us a Latin name for the backboned division of animals,-are there not Latin names for the other divisions ?

M. Yes. These "branched animals" their limbs may not only be compared to the branches growing out from the trunk of a tree, but you may compare them to the rays of light reflected from the sun. The Latin word for ray is "radius," so we call these animals " RADIATED ANIMALS."

And the soft-bodied animals. The Latin word for soft is "mollis," so we call them MOLLUSCOUS ANIMALS.

W. And what are we to call the jointed animals, mamma?

M. From the Latin word articulus, which means a "little joint," we give them the name, ARTICULATED ANIMALS.

Ion. And why,mamma, are the back boned animals called "vertebrated ?"

M. From another Latin word, "Vertebra;" that is the name given to the little bones of which the spine or backbone is composed.

I have been thinking that, today, instead of learning any new lessons, it would be well for you to let me hear how much you know of the old ones. Now, I have said, that all animals may be arranged into four great divisions. How many particulars did I give that you might know the Backboned Animals?

Ion. Three, mamma.

M. And how many parts did the Butterfly mention by which you might know the Jointed Animals?

Ion. Three, mamma. There were four particulars by which we distinguished the Soft-bodied Animals; and five points by which we knew the Branched Animals;

M. To-day, then, we will recapitulate these particulars. Let us all repeat the distinctions of the four sub-kingdoms.

W. What did you call them, mamma?

M. "

Sub-kingdoms;" we must not call them divisions now.

W. That is a curious name. May we not call them classes instead, mamma?

Ion. Or, "Regiments?" Or, we might call them the four "tribes."

M. No, I will tell you. When we speak of all the animals, we do not say the animal "class," for they are in too great a number to form only a class.

W. No, you say that they form the "Animal Kingdom."

M. And if the master in your school, Willie, were to take one of the large "divisions" of boys, and arrange it into smaller divisions, the little divisions would be called

W. Sub-divisions. I remember that, because in our etymology class