liberty is the everlasting birthright of the grand community of Nature's freemen.

10. "Why, Mr. Speaker, sir, if we only stand up for our rights, our rights will stand up for us, and we shall all stand uprightly together, without shivering or shaking. A true patriot, Mr. Speaker, will die for his country. May we all imitate the glorious example, and die for our country.

11. "The member who said so much about these hard times, and every thing and more too about commerce, may say as much as he pleases about factories and making iron.

12. "Why, Mr. Speaker, sir, what does the gentleman mean? Is not agriculture to be cultivated? He that would not stand up for agriculture, and for the best interests of his constituents, is worse than a cannibal, a Hottentot, or a hippopotamus.

13. "I stand up here, Mr. Speaker, for the cart wheels, and so do my constituents. When my constituents call on me with the voice of a speaking trumpet, may I never be backward in coming forward. I stand up here, Mr. Speaker, to keep the rising generation from falling into the deep slough of anarchy.'

14. "But here, just as I was saying 'rising generation,' a little fat, round-faced man turned round and looked right up at me, twisting the corner of ⚫ his mouth into a queer kind of a pucker. This bothered me so, that I could not remember the next word.

15. "I felt in my pocket for my speech - it was not there; then in my hat-it was not there; then behind me and on both sides of me; but lo and behold, it was not to be found. But all this while I pretended to be going on with my speech, saying, 'rising generation,' 'responsibility,' 'my constituents fought, bled, and died.'

16. "Finally, the little man with the round face

put his thumb on the side of his nose, and made a sort of wriggling with his fingers. The speaker began to giggle, and the next moment the whole house was convulsed with laughter.

17. "I was thrown back on my seat, as if a bombshell had exploded at my feet. The member from Bowlingville, seeing my embarrassment, rose and moved that the house do now adjourn.' So I snatched up my hat, and retreated under cover of the smoke."

PIMPERNEL

THE WEATHER GLASS.

1. "I'LL go and peep at the pimpernel,
And see if she thinks the clouds look well;
For if the sun shine,

And 'tis like to be fine,

I shall go to the fair,

For my

schoolmates are there :

So, pimpernel, what bode the clouds and the

sky?"

2. Now the pimpernel flower had folded up.
Her little gold star in her coral cup;
And unto the maid
Thus her warning said:

"Though the sun smile down,
There's a gathering frown

O'er the checkered blue of the clouded sky;
So tarry at home, for a storm is nigh."

3. The maid first looked sad, and then looked cross; Gave her foot a fling, and her head a toss.

"Say you so, indeed,

You mean little weed?
You're shut up for spite,
For the blue sky is bright.

To more credulous people your warning tell;
I'll away to the fair; good day, pimpernel."

4. "Stay at home," quoth the flower. "In sooth, not I;

I'll don my straw hat with a silken tie;
O'er my neck so fair

I'll a kerchief wear,

White, checkered with pink,

And then let me think

I'll consider my gown, for I'd fain look well."
So saying, she stepped o'er the pimpernel.

5. The fair maiden straight donned her best array, And forth to the festival hied away;

But scarce had she gone

Ere the storm came on;
And 'mid thunder and rain

She cried, oft and again,

"O, would I had minded yon boding flower, And were safe at home from the pelting shower!"

6. Now, maidens, the tale that I tell would say, Don't don fine clothes on a doubtful day; Nor ask advice, when, like many more,

You had made up your minds some time before.

EVAPORATION BY ATTRACTION. — INDUC

TION.

1. WHEN water is spilled upon wood, there is an attraction between the wood and the water, so that it adheres to the wood; and, in fact, there is a similar attraction between water and almost all solid substances.

2. The air has also a strong and very peculiar åttraction for water; and when any water is lying upon a board, the air over it gradually takes it up. The particles of water rise up, one after another, and mingle with the air and float away.

3. We cannot see them, for they are very small, and they rise very gradually, and they make no difference in the appearance of the air when they have mingled with it. It is something like sugar dissolving in a cup of warm water.

4. The water has an attraction for the sugar, and takes the particles off from it gradually, and floats them away, until all the sugar is diffused equally over the whole cup of water. So the air takes up the water. This is what we call drying. It is the water going off into the air, because the attraction of the air for it is stronger, than that of the solid substance it rests upon.

5. But oil will not dry up in that way. If you pour oil upon a board, and leave it for months, when you come back you will find it oily still. This is because there is a stronger attraction between the oil and the board, than there is between the oil and the air.

6. It is generally the case, that when water has any thing mixed with it, or dissolved in it, if you expose it to the air, the water will evaporate and leave the other substance dry. Ink, for instance, consists of a black coloring matter dissolved in water. The water will evaporate, and leave all the black part behind on the paper.

7. "Then it seems that nothing will dry up but water," said Charles.

"I don't think of any thing," said his teacher. "Then I have learned one thing, haven't I?" said he.

8. "No, you have not learned yet that nothing will evaporate but water, from such poor reasoning as this. It would be very poor induction."

"Induction?" said Charles. "What is induc-.

tion?"

9. "Why, when we say a thing is always true, because it is true in all the cases we have known, that is induction."

"Is that a good argument?" said Charles.

10. "Yes, sometimes; but we cannot establish a general truth in that way, unless we have taken a great deal of pains, to get all the facts we can possibly collect. It would not be safe, for us to judge from the very few liquids that we happen to think of just now. Boys are very apt to make false inductions in a thousand ways.

11. "Once I took you out in the fields to get some strawberries. I told you, I knew of a place where they were very thick and large. As soon as we got into the field a little way, and you happened, at first, to find them few and small, you said, 'This is not a good field at all.”

12. "Was that a false induction?" said Charles. "Yes; from a very few particulars, you came to a general conclusion, and your conclusion was wrong; for we afterwards found them very large and very plentiful.

13. "To have made a sound induction, you ought to have waited, till you had gone over the field in various directions; and if you found them few and small wherever you went, then you might properly have supposed it to have been a poor field for strawberries."

14. "Why, then I should have known; for I should have seen the field all over."

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No, you would, in fact, have actually seen only a small part of all the strawberries, and places for strawberries, in the whole field. But, after seeing a considerable part of it, you might, perhaps, have safely inferred that the rest would correspond.

15. "This would have been induction; that is,