tender love; she watcheth over it when asleep; she forgetteth it not for a moment; she teacheth it how to be good; she rejoiceth daily in its growth. But who is the parent of the mother? who nourisheth her with good things, and watcheth over her with tender love, and remembereth her every moment? Whose arms are about her to guard her from harm? and if she is sick, who shall heal her?-God is the Parent of the mother; he is the Parent of all, for he created all. All the men and all the women who are alive in the wide world are his children; he loveth all, he is good to all.

The king governeth his people. He hath a golden crown upon his head, and the royal sceptre in his hand. He sitteth upon a throne, and sendeth forth his commands. His sub

jects fear before him. If they do well, he protecteth them from danger; and if they do evil, he punisheth them. But who is the sovereign of the king? Who commandeth him what he must do? Whose hand is stretched out to protect him from danger? and if he do evil, who shall punish him?-God is the Sovereign of the king. His crown is rays of light, and his throne is amongst the stars. He is King of kings, and Lord of lords. If he bid us live, we live; and if he bid us die, we die. His dominion is over all worlds, and the light of his countenance is upon all his works.

God is our Shepherd, therefore we will follow him; God is our Father, therefore we will love him; God is our King, therefore we will obey him.-Barbauld.

he got to the tree to which he had tied him, he found that Coco had unfastened himself, and had gone prancing away, he knew not whither. After hunting about for some time, he saw him at a distance, quietly feeding on the grass. He ran up to him, but just as he put out his hand to catch hold of the bridle, Coco, who wished to enjoy his freedom a little longer, turned suddenly round, kicked up his hind legs, and galloped away. Willy thought himself lucky not to have been within reach of his heels when he kicked up; however, he was quite at a loss what to do. At last he remembered, that when the pony was at grass in the meadow, and the groom wished to catch him, he put a little corn into a

sieve, and held it out to the pony. pony. The The pony came up to him to eat the corn, and then the groom laid hold of his mane, threw a halter over his neck, and led him quietly to the stables. Now, it is true that Willy had neither sieve, corn, nor halter. "But then," he said, 66 the pony will eat grass as well as corn; my hat will serve for a sieve; and as for a halter, I shall not want one, for the pony has his bridle on, and I can catch hold of that." So he gathered a few handfuls of grass, and put them into his hat.

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A man, who was digging in the common, asked him what he was going to do with the grass. Willy told him, it was to catch his pony. "Oh, then," cried the man, need not take so much trouble; if you you hold out your hat empty, it will do just as well, for the pony cannot see that the hat is empty till he comes close up to it; and then you can catch hold of the bridle while he is looking into the hat." "But that would be cheating him," cried Willy; " and I will not cheat any body; no, not even a beast." "Well said, my good boy," replied the man. "Besides," added Willy, "if I cheated him once, he would not believe me another time." He then went up to his pony, and held out his hat; the pony came quietly up to him, and Willy seized hold of his bridle, and cantered home as fast as he could.-JANE MARCET

IV.-Wool.

An'i-mal,a living creature.
Purpose, intention.
Breed, sort; race. [sheep.
Fleece, the wool of one
Leath'er, the skins of ani-
mals dressed.

Ob-tain', to get; toprocure. Sea'son, one of the four di visions of the year; fit

time. Parch'ment, skins dressed for writing on.

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You know, perhaps, that all the clothes which we wear are got either from animals, or from plants. Do you know the animal which, for this purpose, is the most useful to us? What is the coat you wear made of? It is made of wool which grows on sheep. Some breeds of sheep have coarse wool, and some of them have fine wool. The fleece is clipt from the sheep's back once a year. The first thing done is to wash the sheep well in a stream or pond, and this they do about the middle of summer; for if it were not done in a warm season of the year, the poor sheep would be very cold after its fleece was shorn off. The next thing is to pick and sort the wool. After this they scour and card it; and then spin it into yarn on a wheel, or in a mill which is made for the purpose. They next weave it into webs of cloth on a loom, and dye it black, blue, red, green, yellow, or any other colour they please. Wool takes a much better dye than any stuff we get for clothing from plants. It is sometimes dyed in the state of wool, sometimes in the state of yarn,

and sometimes after it has been made into cloth. Cloth made of wool is much warmer than any other kind, and by far the greatest part of our clothing is made of wool. It is to the sheep we owe our blankets, flannels of all sorts, shawls, carpets, and a great many kinds of cloths. The flesh of the sheep serves for food, and is called mutton; its milk is sometimes made into cheese; and from its skin we obtain leather for gloves, for binding books, and for parchment.

V.- Cotton.

Northern, towards the Dis-cov'er, to show; to find

north.

Af-ford', to yield; to be

able to bear expenses. Pre-pare', to make ready. Shrub by, like a shrub; bushy. [wholly

En-tirely, altogether,

out.

Va'ri-ous, different.
Sup-pose', to think; to
imagine.
Sub'stance,matter of which
any thing is made,
wealth; being.

In the northern parts of the world, the people make, with a great deal of labour, a sort of cloth from flax, called linen; but in the warm South there grows a plant or shrub which affords a nice light clothing without much trouble to prepare it. The cotton tree is of three sorts; one creeps on the earth, the second is short and shrubby, and the third is a tall tree. These all bear fruit as large as a walnut, with an outside coat entirely black.