Harry; withdrawing his plate; "for," thought he, "I have had enough, and more than enough, to satisfy my hunger, and now is the time for self-denial."

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"Brother Harry," said his little sister after dinner, will you show me how to do that pretty puzzle you said you would show me a long time ago?" "I am busy now child," said Harry, "don't tease me now, there's a good girl." She said no more but looked disappointed, and still hung upon her brother's chair. "Come, then," said he, suddenly recollecting himself, "bring me your puzzle," and laying down his book, he very good-naturedly showed his little sister how to place it.

That night, when the two boys were going to bed, Harry called to mind, with some complacency, the several instances in which, in the course of the day, he had exercised self-denial, and he was on the very point of communicating them to his brother Frank. "But no," thought he, "this is another opportunity still for self-denial; I will not say a word about it; besides to boast of it would spoil all." So Harry lay down quietly, making the following sage reflections:-" This has been a pleasant day to me, although I have had one great disappointment, and done several things against my will. I find that self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end; and, if I proceed on this plan every day, I shall stand a good chance of leading a happy life.” Jane Taylor.

30.-The Sluggard.

'Tis the voice of the sluggard-I heard him complain, "You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed

Turns his sides, and his shoulders, and his heavy head..

"A little more sleep, and a little more slumber,"

Thus he wastes half his days, and his hours without number:
And when he gets up, he sits folding his hands,
Or walks about saunt'ring, or trifling he stands.

I pass'd by his garden, and saw the wild brier,
The thorn, and the thistle, grow broader and higher;
The clothes that hang on him are turning to rags;
And his money still wastes, till he starves or he begs.
I made him a visit, still hoping to find

He had taken more care for improving his mind:

He told me his dreams, talk'd of eating and drinking,
But he scarce reads his Bible and never loves thinking.
Said I, then, to my heart, "Here's a lesson for me,
That man's but a picture of what I might be;
But thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding,
Who taught me betimes to love working and reading."

31.-The Golden Mean.

RECEIVE, dear friend, the truths I teach,

So shalt thou live beyond the reach

Of adverse fortune's power:

Not always tempt the distant deep,

Nor always timorously creep

Along the treacherous shore.

He that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between

The little and the great,

Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
Imbittering all his state.

Watts.

The tallest pines feel most the power
Of wintry blast; the loftiest tower

Comes heaviest to the ground;

The bolts that spare the mountain's side,
His cloud-capt eminence divide,

And spread the ruin round.

The well-informed philospher
Rejoices with a wholesome fear,

And hopes in spite of pain;

If winter bellow from the north,

Soon the sweet spring comes dancing forth,
And Nature laughs again.

What if thy heaven be overcast?
The dark appearance will not last;
Expect a brighter sky:

The god that strings the silver bow
Awakes sometimes the muses too,
And lays his arrows by.

If hindrances obstruct thy way,

Thy magnanimity display,

And let thy strength be scen;

But, Oh! if Fortune fill thy sail
With more than a propitious gale.
Take half thy canvas in.

Cow

32.-Exercises on Words the same in Sound, but
different in Signification.

FREQUENT exercise in the open air, tends to promote health, which is the greatest of all temporal blessings.Ere he that is an heir of glory, enter into his blessed in. heritance, he may have to encounter many of those tribulations from which no believer e'er yet was exempted.

Forty days after Christ's resurrection, he made his glo rious ascent into heaven, in the presence of his disciples, and to this blessed truth none but infidels will refuse to give their assent.

Some churches are remarkable for spacious aisles. Numerous isles are in the Mediterranean sea, and New Holland is the largest isle in the whole world.

All men are sensible of the utility and benefit of shoes, but the skill of the artizan who makes them would be of little avail without an awl.

Ere a man can be an acceptable guest at the altar of God, he must alter his manner of life-what he formerly loved and practised, he must now hate and utterly forsake.

The hare is a timid animal, and is not covered with hair like the dog which is employed to hunt it down, but with fur.

The sea, when calm, is beautiful, but when we see it during a storm, we may truly affirm it to be sublime.

Circumcision was a Jewish rite, in place of which we have the sacrament of Eaptism. Were I to write, that a r-i-g-h-t is a workman, then I would commit an error, and consequently would not be right.

The council will soon meet, and should it attend to the counsel of them who speak wisely, much good may be anticipated.

A beautiful holm grows loved home.

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