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not end here. The next day, the parents, in their turn, present their gifts to the children.

6. On this occasion, the father converses privately with each of his sons, and the mother with each of her daughters. They tell their children all the faults they have seen in them during the year, and praise them for their good conduct. I wish the boys and girls in America would make such a good use of Christmas eve, and Christmas day.

61. LESSON SIXTY-FIRST,

The Pink Bud.

1. See this pretty bud of pink,
Bursting from amongst the green;
Not a month has passed, I think,
Since its stem was scarcely seen.

2. But I tended it with care,
Plucked each saucy weed that grew;
Morn and evening did repair,
Such attentions to renew.

3. So my parents 'tended me,
Watched my progress every hour ;
Strove from faults to keep me free,
That I might in virtue flower.

4. Pretty bud, you please the eye,
And your odor sweet we find;
But a child, like me, should try
For the sweets and bloom of mind.

62. LESSON SIXTY-SECOND.
Our Playthings.

1. Susan has a waxen doll,
With little, bright blue eyes;
And Mary has a Pretty Poll,'
That stuns me with its cries.

2. Dear James has made a handsome ship,
With famous masts and sails;
And 'pa has bought for little Phip,
A wooden cow and pails.

3. Ann has a glossy, purple dove ;
Jane thinks her garden grand;
But I have something that I love
Better than birds or land.

4. It never speaks a word to me,
And yet 'tis always new;
"Tis full of stories as can be,
And pretty verses too.

5. I always loved to read my book,
But this the best of any:
Pray would you at the title look ?
It is the Miscellany!

63. LESSON SIXTY-THIRD.

The Caterpillar.

1. Charles, do you remember the caterpillar we put in a paper box, with some mulberry leaves for it to eat? Let us go and look at it.

2. It is gone, 'pa-here is no caterpillar. There is something in the box - what is it? I do not know: it is a little ball of yellow stuff. Let us cut it open, perhaps we may find the caterpillar.

3. No, here is nothing but a strange looking grub, and it is dead I believe, for it does not move. Now it stirs; it is not dead, quite. Charles, this grub is your caterpillar, and that yellow stuff is

silk.

4. The caterpillar spun all that silk, and covered itself up with it, and then it was turned into this grub. Take it, and lay it in the sun; we will come and look at it again, to-morrow.

5. Well, this is very strange! here is no grub to be found. Did not we put it on this sheet of paper last night? Yes, and nobody has been in the room to meddle with it.

6. No, nobody at all has been in the room: but, is there nothing upon the sheet of paper? Yes, here is a white butterfly: I wonder how it came here, for the windows are shut.

7. Perhaps the grub is turned into a butterfly. It is indeed; and look, there is the empty shell of the grub, and here is the place where the butterfly came out. But he is too large- this shell could not hold him, I am sure.

8. Yes, it did, because his wings were folded up, and he lay very snug. It is the same, I assure you, Charles, and all the pretty butterflies, that you see flying about, were once caterpillars, and crawled on the ground.

9. This caterpillar, which has so puzzled you, is called a silk worm. Many people rear them, and feed them with mulberry leaves, for the sake of their silk. All the silk thread, and silk cloth you ever saw, was spun, and wound into little balls like this, by silk-worms.

64. LESSON SIXTY-FOURTH.

The Sun and Moon.

1. It is a pleasant evening, come hither, Charles, and look at the sun. The sun is in the West. Yes, because he is going to set. How pretty the sun looks. We can look at him now; he is not so bright as he was at dinner time, when he was up high in the bright sky.

2. And how beautiful the clouds are! There are crimson clouds, and purple and gold-colored clouds. Now, the sun goes down very fast. Now, we can see only half of him. Now, we cannot see him at all. Farewell, sun! till to-morrow morning.

3. But now, Charles, turn your face the other way - to the East. What is it that shines so behind the trees? Is it fire? No, it is the moon. It is very large, and how red it is, like blood.

4. The moon is round, now; because it is full moon; but it will not be round to-morrow night it will lose a little bit, and the next night it will lose a little more, and so on, till it is like your bow, when it is bent.

5. And then, it will not be seen till after you are in bed, and it will grow less and less, till in a fortnight there will be no moon at all to be seen. After that, there will be a new moon, and you will see it in the afternoon.

6. It will be very thin, at first, but it will grow rounder and bigger, every day, till at last, in another fortnight, it will be full moon again, like this, and you will see it rise again behind the

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1. This bird is about as large as a goose. It cannot fly though it has wings. Its legs are SD far behind, that it has to stand upright like a man. Its wings are small, and look like the fins of fishes; it uses them to swim with.

2. Penguins keep together, in large flocks, on islands, and about the water, and live upon fish. When they are seen a great way off, in flocks, they look like a number of children dressed in black, with white aprons on.

3. They cannot run fast on the land, because their legs are so short, and it is very easy to catch them: the people go and knock them down with sticks. But in the water it can swim faster than ony other bird.

4. They are very shy, and will not let any body come near them If they see any person trying to shoot them, they will dive down into the water, and come up a great way off.

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