LX. THE BOY AND THE RAIN-DROPS.

lit'tle

means

noth'ing
pane

rain-drops
rain'y

1. PITTER-PATTER, pitter-patter,
On the window-pane!

O, where do you come from,
You little drops of rain?

2. Pitter-patter, pitter-patter,
All the rainy day;
Tell me, little rain-drops,
Is this the way you play?

3. I sit here at the window;
I've nothing else to do;
O, how I'd like to play,
This rainy day, with you!

4. The little rain-drops cannot talk,
But, "Pitter-patter, pat

Means, "We play on this side,
But you must play on that."

1. A PIN and a needle, being idle, began to quarrel, as idle folks are apt to do. "I should like to know," said the pin to the needle, "what you are good for, and how you can expect to get through the world without a head."

2. "What is the use of your head," said the needle rather sharply, "if you have no "What is the use of an eye," said eye?" the pin, "if there is always something in it ? " "I can go through more work than you can," said the needle. Yes, but you will not live long." "Why not?" said the needle. "Because you always have a stitch in your side," said the pin.

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3. "You are a crooked creature," said the needle. "And you are so proud that you cannot bend without breaking your back," said the pin. "I will pull your head off if you insult me again," said the needle.

4. "And I will pull your eye out if you touch my head," said the pin. While they were thus quarreling, a little girl came in and began to sew with the needle. In a short time she broke it at the eye.

5. Then she tied the thread round the neck of the pin, and in trying to pull it through the cloth, she soon pulled off the head. Then she threw it into the dirt by the side of the needle.

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Well, here we are," said the needle. "We have nothing to fight about now," said the pin. "Bad luck seems to have brought us to our senses," said the needle. "We are very much like men. They quarrel about the good things they have till they lose them, and find out that they are brothers only when they are in the dust together."

1. 'T IS a lesson you should heed, —

You will conquer, never fear,-
Try again.

2. Once or twice though you should fail, Try again.

If you would at last prevail,

Try again.

If we strive, 't is no disgrace

Though we may not win the race.
What should you do in that case?
Try again.

3. If you find your task is hard, Try again;

Time will bring you your reward,

Try again.

All that other folks can do,

Why, with patience, should not you?
Only keep this rule in view,
Try again.