sions. The least opposition would rouse his anger, and he made no efforts to subdue himself. He had no one who could love him. When he was playing with others, he would get irritated in a moment.

As he grew older, his passions increased, and he became so ill-natured that every one avoided him. One day, as he was talking with another man, be became so enraged at some little provocation, that he seized a club, and with a blow laid the man lifeless at his feet.

But while in

He was seized and imprisoned. prison, his reason forsook him, and he became a maniac. He was thus doomed to pass the miserable remnant of his guilty life, the victim of his ungovernable passions.

This is a very unusual case. But children often destroy their own peace, and make their brothers and sisters continually unhappy, by indulging in a peevish and irritable spirit.

A child will sometimes cherish this disposition until he becomes a man, and then, by his peevishness and fault-finding, he destroys the happiness of all who are near him. His home is the scene of discord. His family are made wretched.

An amiable disposition makes its possessor happy; and if you would have such a disposition, you must learn to control yourself. If others injure you, obey the gospel rule, and do them good in return. If they

* Pauses should frequently be made in reading where no grammatical points are used. These are called rhetorical pauses.

revile you, speak kindly to them. suffer injury than to inflict injury.

It is far better to

If you will endeavor in childhood to control your 心 passions in this way, to be always mild, and forbearing, and forgiving, you will disarm opposition, and in many cases convert enemies to friends. You will be beloved by those around you, and when you have a home of your own, your cheerful and obliging spirit will make it a happy home.

o as in old, bold, fold, sold.
o as in move, prove, ooze, pool.
o as in dot, hot, not, rot.

u as in cube, tube, blue, glue.

Patient, (not pashunt,) different, monument, compliment, government, element, sentiment, continent, excellent, diffident, ardent, transient, evidence, influence, eminence, prudence.

Danger of Disobedience.

A gentleman, who lived in the country, had a very fine piece of water in his garden, on which there was

The words tube, glue, blue, are often mispronounced toob, gloo, bloo. This is as improper as it would be to say coob instead of cube. The u should have the same sound as ew in few.

a pleasure-boat. Very frequently, in fine weather, he used to take his children with him, and row them about for a good while, as they were fond of the

amusement.

Sometimes he would indulge his two eldest sons, Hugh * and Robert, with the oars, when he was present, and let them row the boat; but he gave them a strict charge never to attempt to do so when he was not with them; nor were they, upon any account, ever to go into the boat by themselves. and without leave.

But these boys were sometimes so naughty, when they thought they were not seen, as to venture in, and move the boat about as much as they could, whilst it was moored, that is, tied to a post by the shore.

Two or three times they had been caught, and even punished for doing so; yet one day, when they thought their father and mother were both out, they agreed they would again venture into the boat.

"There can be no harm in it," said Hugh; "we shall be quite safe; and, even if we should overset her, and fall out, at the worst, it would only give us a ducking, and I am sure it could not hurt these old clothes; so come along."

Robert could not feel so easy about the matter. "I do not," said he, "think it quite right to go in, because father and mother are not with us."

"Pooh! nonsense!" replied Hugh; "what a fuss you make about your quite right! What harm is there in it? If they do not see us, they cannot be

* Pron Hú.

uneasy; so come along; it is a fine afternoon, and we will have a nice row.”

"You do not mean," rejoined Robert, "to unmoor the boat, do you?"-"Yes, indeed, do I," replied his brother; "I can push her off from the land, for I understand how to do it very well; so come along, I say, and do not waste any more time with your scruples and nonsense."

So saying, he scrambled into the boat, and helped his brother in. Robert, then, though his mind did not feel at all easy, assisted to loosen the boat from the post it was chained to, and they soon pushed off from the land.

"There, now," said Hugh, "I told you I could do it; and I wonder what the mighty harm is of our taking a nice row and enjoying ourselves this delightful afternoon. Do you not find it very pleasant? "

"It is pleasant enough, to be sure," replied Robert; "but I cannot say that I enjoy it much. I am sure we are doing wrong. We were told not to get into the boat at all; therefore we ought not to do it. I wish, with all my heart, I had not come. But let us row back again, and I will get out directly."

"Indeed, I shall not go back for a long time," said Hugh: "now we have disobeyed, and got into the boat, we may as well stay and enjoy ourselves for an hour or two. If my father knows of our being in it for only a minute, he will be just as angry as if we stay in ever so long."

"But I think," resumed Robert, "that the longer we are naughty, so much the worse boys we are. If

we have done a wrong thing, the sooner we do right again, the better we shall be; therefore I am resolved not to stay here; so pray put back again."

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"Not I, indeed," said his brother, "for I am resolved to stay till it is dark; so row away, my lad." "I will row to the shore," said Robert. "And I will row into the middle!" said Hugh; "so pull away; let us both tug at our oars, and see which will gain his purpose first."

They then both exerted their utmost strength; but Hugh, being the strongest, gained more way than his brother. Robert, finding it impossible to get back again, threw down the oar, and, bursting into tears, said, "I see you are resolved, not only to be wicked. yourself, but to make me wicked also. I think it is very unkind to compel me to stay here, when I wish so much to go back."

"Well, come along," said Hugh, rather pettishly; "take up your oar again, and go back if you will; but I think it is you that are unkind, not to stay out when I wish it so much. But you shall not say I made you wicked." Robert then gladly took up his oar, and in a few minutes was again safe on shore.

No sooner did Robert find himself out of the boat, than his eyes sparkled for joy, and he tried all he could to persuade his brother to get out also. But Hugh positively refused, and pushed himself off from the land, as he had done before.

Hugh enjoyed himself much for some time, floating about on the water; but at length, as he was trying to turn about, somehow or other, for want of better