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strange variety of figures. about? Seeking for prey? movements are all in play.

What are they
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Greatly they

enjoy it; but were you to watch them for hours, yet, however crowded might be the face of the pool, you would not observe one trouble another. Cannot you, then, learn something from them?

Another instance of the same kind occurs to me. Every day, at the same hour, the African damask parrots fly to the water to bathe themselves. In doing so they take much delight. As only the purest water will please them, they have often to go a great distance; yet all the flocks of the neighbourhood assemble with much activity and noise. They may then be seen rolling over each other on the banks of the water, frolicking together, dipping their heads and wings, and scattering the water over all their plumage. When this is done, they return to the trees on which they had before assembled, where they sit to adjust and trim their feathers. And cannot you learn something from them?

What a contrast is there between the movements of these little creatures and the conduct of ill-tempered turbulent children!

I have known a child say of another with whom there has been a quarrel: "I know he hates me I know she hates me." And yet the accused knew nothing of such a feeling, while it prevailed in the bosom of the ac

cuser.

Uncle William has seen much of men and things in the course of his life, and he is obliged to confess, though he does it with pain, that the feeling of tender regard for others, which he wishes were universal, is still rare, very rare. Unhappily, children often tease and torment one another. One perhaps is irritable, or awkward, or personally deformed, and the rest, instead of cherishing pity, manifest unkindness, and often cruelty. It ought to be otherwise; if there is one of the family who suffers in any way, the rest should suffer with it. I could press to my "heart of hearts," the brothers or the sisters who would try to the uttermost to aid or amuse such a one. I love-yes, dearly do I love, the child that gives up his play-time to talk to and read with a little invalid, shut up in his chamber, or compelled to lie, hour after hour, on his couch.

Happy would it be if children acted as

Dr. Watts has taught them to do, when he said: :

"I'll not willingly offend,

.Nor be easily offended,

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,

And endure what can't be mended."

That would indeed be wisdom. An excellent man, who is now in heaven, said to a friend of mine, after being absent from his native land many years, "That verse has carried me round the world." Always remember it, then, my young friend, and if you do, I can foretell one thing without fear of failure; that, while you thus give much more pleasure to others, you will have much more pleasure than others.

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RIGHT WORDS.

How often a child has in fretfulness said,
"I am sure it has always been so !"
As if there were stored, in its own little head,
What happen'd some ages ago.

Suppose that some one, in the darkness of night,
Were close to his bedside to creep,

I ask, would he think it quite proper or right,
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say he is always asleep?"

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Then use the best word you can possibly find,

To convey what's precisely the case;

Or else, by loose talking, you'll injure your mind,
And incur both distress and disgrace.

IT has been said, that the tongue would not have had the double fence of the teeth and the lips, except to guard against its moving too nimbly; and truly it needs much control. Some persons are fond of

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