We have five fin gers on each hand, and five toes on each foot.

We must not say that it is cruel for cats to kill rats and mice: it is good for us that they do so; for the rats and mice like to eat our food, and do us no good that I know of.

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A bull is a noble and useful fellow. will help the farmer to draw the cart. will let him have some nice hay for his labor, and we will take care not to hurt him

My sister is going to have a new doll; but she will not like it better than the old one. I am sure she is very fond of that. I have often seen her sit very qui et in a corner, and play with it for an hour at a time.

A little bit of plum cake is very nice; but we cannot eat much of it at a time. Good plain food is best for us; but we may not eat too much even of that, or it will give us a pain in the head, and make us sick and ill.

It is good for children to have a little garden of their own to take care of; they are al most all fond of dig ging, and sowing, and plant ing; and like to see flowers as they are grow ing. A parent likes a flower that a child gathers out of his own garden better than any that he can buy.

Henry lent me a nice long bit of pencil, and I it him back again.

gave Put your book away as soon as you have done with it, and do not let it lie on the table. A good boy or girl will behave as well be hind your back as be fore your face. The star ling that you hear sing so loud, starling does not belong to us, but to the people that live next door.

My aunt Sarah, before she left town, gave me the coral neck lace that I wear, for a keep sake.

Ellen has a wax doll with real hair, all in ring lets; and its eyes open and shut just as if it were alive.

I was very rest less in bed; for the whitlow on my index finger gave me much pain, and kept me a wake a long time.

The tail of a pea cock is very hand some in the sun; but he cannot sing: now I like a linnet or a lark much better, that can sing all day long.

If you set an a corn, it will in time become an oak, and may be used to make a ship. A wood man, with an axe, can cut down an oak in a day, that has been growing for ages.

I suppose you know that we can see a rain bow only when the sun is out.

About an hour after noon, is the hot test part of the day; for at that time the sun has most power.

I can as sure you that I did not in tend to hurt you, and I am very sorry for having done so.

Is it not cruel to con fine a poor bird in a narrow cage, that has been used to fly in the open air all its life?

It was a lady bird that you saw on the lark spur; but I do not know the name of the little in sect that was upon the rose.

Beet root is in the form of a carrot, but much bigger, and of a deep red color. Some people pickle it, and others make sugar from it.

If you set the pip of ever so nice an apple, and let it grow of it self, it may only be come a crab-tree, that will bear a sour sort of apple.

Some rivers are rapid, and some slow; some are wide, others narrow; some are so deep that a ship can sail up them, others are so shallow that you may walk across them with out danger.

On the Sabbath we will at tend the public worship of the Lord, and humbly offer up our prayers to Him.

If I do not try to get the better of my bad temper, God cannot admit me to be happy with Him after I die.

It is in vain for us to look with out us for heaven, if we do not suffer our Lord to form one within our own bosom.

Our Lord took the name Jesus when He came in His love and pity to re deem mankind, and to save His people from the power of sin.

In reading the Word of God, be careful that you at tend to the meaning of what you read, in order that you may attain to true wisdom.

A help less little in fant that does not yet know even its own mother, is as much an object of the care and re gard of our good Lord, as a king is.

So long as we re main in this life, we cannot be ex empt from pain; per haps we may even have se vere trials to bear; but, if we firmly and humbly en dure unto the end, we may ex pect to be come mem bers of the king dom of hea ven.

Horses and cows are very fond of going into shallow water to cool on a hot day.

A salm on is a fish that has so much power that it can make its way up a torrent, and can leap very high.

It is good to eat salt with our meat. People often salt beef and pork before they cook them; mutton, lamb, and veal are not salted. Bacon and ham are made from pork.

When you meet with a word, and do not know its mean ing, take notice of it; and, at a proper time, ask your master to have the good ness to in form you what it is.

It is very silly to star tle at a poor little spider, that will run away from you as fast as it can for my part, I have often been much am used at seeing one spin its web.

People brew beer from malt and hops; they let it work in an open tub, and then put it into a barrel, and bung it up to keep. Ale is better for being put into bottles, and kept till it is old.

Eggs that are newly laid, are much better than others. People that keep poultry can often have them; but such as live in cities, and have to buy all they use, find that they are al ways very dear in winter.