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smile induced her to enter, and depositing a brown papouse (Indian for baby or little child) on the ground, she gazed round with curiosity and delight in her eyes. We

offered her some tea and bread, motioning to her to take a vacant seat beside the table. She seemed pleased by the invitation, and drawing her little one to her knee, poured some tea into the saucer, and gave it to the child to drink. She eat very moderately, and when she had finished, rose and wrapping her face in the folds of her blanket, bent down her head on her breast in the attitude of prayer. This little act of devotion was performed without the slightest appearance of pharisaical display, but in singleness and simplicity of heart. She then thanked us with a face beaming with smiles and good humour; and taking little Rachel by the hands, threw her over her shoulder with a peculiar slight that I feared would dislocate the tender thing's arms, but the papouse seemed well satisfied with this mode of treatment.

In long journeys the children are placed in upright baskets of a peculiar form, which are fastened round the necks of the mothers by straps of deer skin; but the young infant is swathed to a sort of flat cradle, secured with flexible hoops, to prevent it from falling out. To these machines they are strapped, so as to be unable to move a limb. Much finery is often displayed in the outer covering and the bandages that confine the papouse.

There is a sling attached to this cradle, that passes over the squaw's neck, the back of the babe being placed to the back of the mother, and its face outward. The first thing a squaw does on entering a house is to release herself from her burden and place it up against the wall, or chair, chest, or any thing that will support it, where the passive prisoner stands looking not unlike a mummy in its

case.

The squaws are most affectionate to their little ones. Gentleness and good humour appear distinguishing traits in the tempers of the female Indians; whether this be natural to their characters, the savage state, or the softening effects of Christianity, I cannot determine.

The squaws are very ingenious in many of their handyworks. We find their birch-bark baskets very convenient

for a number of purposes. My bread-basket, knife-tray,

and sugar-basket, are all of this humble material. When

ornamented and wrought in patterns with dyed quills, I can assure you they are by no means inelegant.

They manufacture vessels of birch-bark so well that they will serve for many useful household purposes, such as holding milk, soup, water, or any other liquid; they are sewn or rather stitched together with the tough roots of the tamarack or larch, or else with stripes of cedar-bark. They also weave very useful sorts of baskets from the inner rind of the bass-wood and white ash. Some of these baskets, of a coarse kind, are made use of for gathering up potatoes, Indian corn, or turnips; the settlers finding them very good substitutes for the osier baskets used for the same purpose in the old country. The Indians are acquainted with a variety of dyes, with which they stain the more elegant fancy baskets and porcupine-quills. Our parlour is ornamented with several very pretty specimens of their ingenuity in this way, which answer the purpose of note and letter-cases, flower-stands, and work-baskets.

They appear to value the useful rather more highly than the merely ornamental articles that you may exhibit to them. They are very shrewd and close in all their bargains, and exhibit a surprising degree of caution in their dealings. The men are much less difficult to trade with than the women; they display a singular pertinacity in some instances. If they have fixed their mind on any one article, they will come to you day after day, refusing any other you may offer to their notice. One of the squaws fell in love with a gay chintz dressing-gown belonging to my husband, and though I resolutely refused to part with it, all the squaws in the wigwam by turns came to look at "gown," which they pronounced with their peculiarly plaintive tone of voice; and when I said "no gown to sell," they uttered a melancholy exclamation of regret, and went away.

They will seldom make any article you want on purpose for you. If you express a desire to have baskets of a particular pattern that they do not happen to have ready made by them, they give you the usual reply of "by-andby." If the goods you offer them in exchange for theirs, do not answer their expectations they give a sullen and dogged look or reply, "car-car" (no, no,) or "carwin," which is a still more forcible negative. But when the bargain pleases them, they signify their approbation by several affirmative nods of the head, and a note not much

unlike a grunt; the ducks, venison, fish, or baskets are placed beside you, and the articles of exchange transferred to the folds of their capacious blankets, or deposited in a sort of rushen wallet, not unlike those straw baskets in which English carpenters carry their tools.

The women imitate the dresses of the whites, and are rather skilful in converting their purchases. Many of the young girls can sew very neatly. I often give them bits of silk, and velvet, and braid, for which they appear very thankful.-Back-woods of Canadā.

THE SWALLOW'S RETURN.

WELCOME, Welcome, feathered stranger!
Now the sun bids nature smile ;—
Safe arrived, and free from danger,
Welcome to our blooming isle;
Still twitter on my lowly roof,

And hail me at the dawn of day,
Each morn the recollected proof
Of time that ever fleets away!

Fond of sunshine, fond of shade,
Fond of skies serene and clear,
Even transient storms thy joys invade,
In fairest seasons of the year ;—
What makes thee seek a wilder clime?—
What bids thee shun the wintry gale?—
How knowest thou thy departing time?-
Hail! wondrous bird; hail swallow, hail!-

Sure something more to thee is given,
Than myriads of the feathered race,
Some gift divine, some spark from heaven,
That guides thy flight from place to place!
Still freely come, still freely go,

And blessings crown thy vigorous wing;
May thy wide flight meet no rude foe,
Delightful messenger of spring.-Anon.

THE WORLD WE HAVE NOT SEEN.

THERE is a world we have not seen,
That time shall never dare destroy,
Where mortal footstep hath not been,
Nor ear hath caught its sounds of joy.

There is a region lovelier far

Than sages tell or poets sing,
Brighter than summer beauties are,
And softer than the tints of spring.

There is a world-and O how blest!—
Fairer than prophets ever told;
And never did an angel guest

One half its blessedness unfold.

It is all holy and serene,

The land of glory and repose; And there, to dim the radiant scene, The tear of sorrow never flows.

It is not fanned by summer gale;
'Tis not refreshed by vernal showers;
It never needs the moonbeam pale,

For there are known no evening hours.

No: for this world is ever bright,
With a pure radiance all its own;

The streams of uncreated light

Flow round it from the Eternal Throne.

There forms, that mortals may not see,

Too glorious for the eye to trace,
And clad in peerless majesty,
Move with unutterable grace.

In vain the philosophic eye

May seek to view the fair abode, Or find it in the curtain'd sky :

It is THE DWELLING PLACE of God.

Anon.

F

REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS.

A FREQUENT recourse to rewards only lessens their effect, and weakens the mind by accustoming it to an unnecessary stimulus; whilst punishment too freely administered will fret the temper, or break the spirit.

Locke remarks, "that those children who are the most rarely chastised prove the best men; and that punishment, if it be not productive of good, will certainly be the cause of much injury."

Not only the rod, but severe reproaches, rough handling, tying to bed-posts, the hasty slap, the dark closet, and every thing that might terrify the imagination, are to be excluded from the nursery. If a mother be under the necessity of punishing a child, she may confine him for a time in a light room, remove him from table, or allow him simply to suffer the natural consequences of his offence. If he intentionally hurt his brother with a whip, the whip must for a time be taken from him. If he betray impatience and selfishness at table, let him be served the last, and with the least indulgence. Such gentle measures, administered with decision, will generally succeed; for it is more the certainty and immediate execution, than the severity, of the punishment, that will avail. A child who is sure of being confined a quarter of an hour if he strike his companion, is less likely to commit the offence than another who has only the apprehension that he may be detained an hour; for the hope of escaping with impunity, adds no little force to temptation. There is much in education to be done by watching opportunities, by acting at the right season. With most

children there is an era, and this often takes place as they are emerging from baby-hood, in which a struggle is made for the mastery-in which it is to be decided who is to rule the child or the mother. At such a juncture, in order to determine the matter, and firmly to establish authority, it will be necessary to employ rigorous measures, and to suppress the first-risings of a rebellious and disobedient spirit by punisament, decisive; and repeated till submission on the part of the child, and victory on that of the parent, are completely secured,

When a child has been punished, he should be restored

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