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FRANCE, &c.

BREST, HAVRE, BOULOGNE, and

P. WE will not begin a new and the ports MARSEILLES, lesson to-day. I wish you to TOULON, commit to memory your lesson DIEPFE, on FRANCE, and to recapitulate CALAIS. your lessons on that country and SWITZERLAND.

FRANCE.

RECAPITULATION.

1. I know a country where

(Situation.) FRANCE is giant glaciers descend from the situated between Spain and Holland.

(Rivers.) The principal rivers are the Seine, the Rhone, the Garonne, and the Loire.

(Soil and Products.) The climate of France, in the south, is warm like that of Italy; in the north it resembles that of England. The products are corn, wine, mulberries, silk, olives, &c. The minerals are not remarkable; coal is scarce, and iron is therefore dear. Salt is procured from the lagoons. The sheep and cattle of France are more important than the horses; the quantity of eggs and poultry produced is still more remarkable.

(People.) The French nation consisted originally of Gaulsit now also contains various tribes, of British, German, Spanish and Italian origin.

mountains into the valleys. What is its name?

2. Tell me four causes for the descent of the glaciers?

3. Why do the peasants build their cottages under ledges in the rocks?

4. Name the three principal mountains of that country? 5 The four principal rivers? 6. The seven principal lakes? 7. The two principal cities? 8. The cantons which are famous for their cotton-prints and silk-manufactures?

9. Which city has manufactures of watches, musical-boxes, and jewellery?

10. Tell me something of the language, religion, and government of the Swiss?

11. What course of life is adopted by many of the Swiss, living in the agricultural and mountainous parts?

12. Into how many cantons is the country divided?

13. By what country was Switzerland enslaved, when the war of independence was begun by WILLIAM TELL?

(Towns and Manufactures.) -The capital is PARIS, with manufactures of white sugar, silk, tapestry, china, jewellery, time-pieces, bronzes, and other ornaments. ROUEN is noted for its cotton goods, and LYONS When you can answer these for its silk. The other import-questions, I will make you ant towns are BORDEAUX, Some more on the geography STRASBURG, TOULOUSE, NANTES, of FRANCE.

A JOURNAL OF INSTRUCTION FOR THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL.

22nd Week.

MONDAY.

Moral Lesson.

CHARITY.

"Charity vaunteth not itself."

I DARE say you don't know the road by which Tom used to go to school. It was a country road, for Tom lived in the country, about three miles from the county town.

There was one part of the road where a tall house stood, on the left-hand side; there were white posts in front of the house, outside the gravel walk, and there was a plot of grass between the posts and the road. I should like to tell you about the saw-mills that were close by, on the opposite side, and the long trunks of-poplar trees I think they were some very large trees-that used to lie by the side of the road, near the saw-mill; and of the very little pond that there was near those trunks, where three ducks used to swim-we used to drive away the drake, and feed the other two, very often; but the history of those ducks and of those places has nothing to do with our lesson.

One morning three boys were walking in the part of the road that I have mentioned. One boy wore corduroy trowsers. I don't know what sort of a coat and waistcoat he had, because

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an old-fashioned, thick, blue pinafore covered his body from his shoulders down to his knees. He had not any white collar; his cap was circular, with a peak to it, and was made of seal - skin. If you had descended from his cap to his boots, you would have noticed that they were hob-nailedregular country boots, just the sort of thing for that road; for in the winter time-especially down Damphurst Hollow was awfully muddy! I may add respecting this boy, that he was marked with small-pox, that he had red hair, and was decidedly ugly in the face. Yet he was a very regular and steady fellow; and every morning, at twenty minutes past eight exactly, even when it poured with rain, you might have seen him, with a bag over his shoulder, trudging past the great house, past the saw-mills, past everything else that was by the side of the road, onward and onward, to school. Finally, I may tell you his name; he was called John Snub, and he was the son of the shoemaker who always mended Tom's shoes.

L. But who was Tom, papa?

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P. Tom was one of the other crumpled horn. She looks boys whom you might have seen on that country road at twenty minutes past eight. Tom Martingale was the son of a Thomas Martingale, Esq, a gentleman and a "Justice of the Peace."

L. That means a magistrate, I suppose?

P. Yes. I am not going to describe Tom, nor the third boy, who was his younger brother. I will only tell you his thoughts. When he overtook John Snub, he thought to himself, "There's that boy again! We will pass him on the other side of the grass-plot; then we need not notice him. Let us run," he said to his brother, "and get on before him. It will be an unpleasant thing to have that fellow for company every morning!"

When they had passed the "fellow," Tom said to his brother, I hope that that boy doesn't go this way to school every day. Do you know who he is?"

"No. Who is he?"

"He is the shoemaker's boy. He brings home our shoes sometimes. I think he goes to the National School, in the town. Of course, it wouldn't be respectable, when we are Grammar-school boys, to talk to a boy from the National School. But, look here! How shall we get past?"

"Halloo! Sh-sh-sh!" said Tom. "Get out of the way!"

They won't move," said his brother. "Can't we get through the hedge? I don't like the front one, with a

"I think we had better go back," said Tom," for we can't pass, the lane is so narrow!" But just at this moment they heard some steps, and, looking back, behold, another cow was behind them!

"What shall we do?" said Tom again. "We had better get into the ditch."

"Wait a minute,” said a voice from the other side of the hedge; and, looking up, they saw John Snub, with his round seal-skin cap in his hand.

"I'll drive her back," said John. "You keep still. I saw her come out of the field gate.” And with that he threw his great cap at the cow behind them; at which, being quite "horror-struck," she turned into the field again.

"Now, then," said John, getting into the lane, 66 "we'll soon make t'others goo! Yuoy! Whoo-oo-op! Yu- oy oy oy there! Coo-up, coo-up, cup, cup, gee! Go on, will yer?" Then curling up his tongue, and making a strange noise between his tongue and teeth (which the printer could'nt print if he tried ever so), John tossed his bag up in the air, and whirled it round and round, and took two or three steps forward.

These steps ended the contest; the cows heard John's remarks they considered the matter-they looked very glum and discontented; they also stared vacantly into the air, as if they inwardly felt that a retreat was not "quite the thing," but they didn't say anything;

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they silently turned round, and "Ah, I am sorry to hear you walked slowly before the boys. say that," said his papa. "You By this time Tom Martin-show that you have not much gale and his brother had quite charity in you by talking about forgotten their resolution not it. Why do you want to speak to John Snub. They make him feel that you have couldn't help thanking him; charity? Did this boy want to and then they felt bound to make you feel that he had been make a few other civil remarks. kind to you when he drove the cows away?"

When the two brothers returned home they mentioned their adventure to their papa.

"Do you think," said Tom, "that we ought to have talked to John Snub?-because he is not respectable."

"No! he didn't seem to think anything about that, he was so delighted at what he had done."

"Then I hope you will feel delight, instead of boasting, should you be of service to "You can't tell," said their him. If you will look in God's рара, "whether he is respect- word, you may read that he able or not, until you have who hath true charity does talked with him. He is cer- not boast of his deeds; it is tainly poor; and very often it said that Charity vaunteth may not be well for you to make not itself. a poor boy your companion."

"Why not?" said Tom. "Because," said his papa, "many poor boys have not had the opportunity of learning good manners that you have. If this poor boy is rude, and you have not sense enough to teach him better habits, he will certainly make you like himself. But if he is not a rude boy, you may walk with him and try and do him good."

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Very well," said Tom, "only I think we ought to let him feel that there is a difference."

"What difference?"

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"Let me tell you something more. Even if riches could be worth boasting about, you are foolish to feel proud of the riches of your father. Or if you had great wisdom. you might not boast; for all wisdom is given you by your Father in Heaven.

"When Jesus Christ lived in this world he did good to any poor man that he met with. Jesus had unbounded wisdom, yet he never boasted of what he gave away. Jesus had the true charity which vaunteth not itself, for it was natural to him to go about doing good.

"I don't like to say what exactly, but we belong to a rich "Now, you may copy Jesus family. And then it is a charity every morning. Never once of us, who are Grammar-school think again that you are richer boys, to try and teach him than John Snub; but as you good manners. They don't go to school, I hope you will learn manners at the National feel glad to do him all the School." good you can."

THE JUSSIEUAN SYSTEM.

THALAMIFLORALS.

Order 9. SUN-DEW PLANTS.

W. HERE are two curious plants which papa has brought.

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The Venus's Fly-trap.
(Dionæa Muscipula.)

W. Which, I suppose, look like dew.

P. Yes, when the sun shines upon them; but the real dew is only seen early in the morning. When the sun shines this dew disappears, but these drops of viscid juice continue. They become most abundant when the sun is at its highest.

Ion. I suppose that is why it is called the sun-dew plant.

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P. Don't say "nob." If you P. Yes, that is the reason of look at those little nobs, as you its name. You may also notice call them, you will see that that its leaves grow close to the they are drops of a viscid juice, ground; therefore, we say that which has an acrid taste. The they are 'depressed." They hairs themselves consist of are also arranged in a circle. glands. Thus we say that the L. What sort of flowers have leaves are orbicular, and covered they? with long, bright red glandular hairs, containing on their points drops of viscid juice.

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P. The flowers grow flower-stalks, which are radical, that is, they spring up from the

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