man. Inside the circle was a large crowd of Britons, all kneeling or standing together, as silent as though they were dead. Far off was the altar, surrounded by priests, with long grey beards, and dressed in white robes. They were playing on harps, and singing strange songs.

Soon you would see them bring before the altar a tall image of a man -as tall even as the stones of the Temple. This image was made of osier twigs, and inside it was full of live men, crowded one above another.

L. But, papa, they would die, if they were packed up so!

P. You shall hear. All the people would be silent; all the Druids would sing. Soon, the great Arch-Druid, coming to the foot of the Image, would stand there with a lighted torch in his hand;—and with this torch he would -set the image on fire!

L. Oh, papa! with the live men in it!-that is horrible.

P. Then, whilst the flames burst forth, and the burning twigs crackled and hissed; whilst the men would shriek loud screams, the Druids would sing a deep bass in a voice louder still, and the people would offer up prayers to their Gods.

verses, containing a history of the Island; they taught about the Earth and Stars; they cured those who were sick; they made laws for the people; they taught them the art of war, and showed them how to make swords and chariots.

W. Then we might say that the Druids were Ministers, Lawyers, and Doctors;-and some were Poets.

Ion. But I think they must have been wicked men; they must have known that they were not worshipping true gods, for God could never wish men to be burned. What did they burn them for?

W. I suppose they were afraid of their gods, and did such things to take away their anger. But it was silly to suppose their gods were so angry that they must burn men!

P. Yes; these poor priests did not know the words, "God is love." Men take a long time to learn this. Even priests who have known it, and have read it in His holy word, have been so foolish as to burn men to please Him.

W. Yes, I have read about that; somt were burned in London-in Smi hfield; but it was a long time ago, when Bibles were printed in Latin, and the people could not read

THANK the goodness and the grace
Which on my birth have smiled,
And made me, in these Christian days,
A happy English child.

I was not born as thousands are,
Where God was never known;
And taught to pray a useless prayer
To blocks of wood and stone.

P. That is true; but even in these days, when men have English Bibles, they are too much afraid of God; they only half believe in his goodness. Mind, and remember always, that the true God does not wish men to be punished, for there is only one God, and that God is LOVE.

I was not born a little slave,
To labour in the sun,

And wish I were but in the grave,
And all my labour done.

My God, I thank thee, who hast plann'd
A better lot for me,

And placed me in this happy land,
Where I may hear of thes.

BREAD.

W. Mamma, I should like to make an object lesson from my piece of bread-and-butter.

Mamma. Very well, Willie; but we will take one thing at a time, the bread to-day, and the butter next week. Tell me the principal parts you observe in this piece of bread.

W. The crust, and the crumb. M. We will talk of the crust first. What do you observe in it? Ion. It is brown.

W. You cannot see through the crust as you can through glass. It would not make good spectacles. It is not transparent. What is it called because we cannot see through it?

M. It is said to be "opaque." L. You cannot cut crust very easily.

Ion. I know why. The knife cannot pass through the crust quickly, because the particles are so close together-because it is so solid. What do we call a substance when it is very solid?

W. You say it is "hard." Ion. That does not seem quite right, because if you cut the crust of new bread, it soon breaks into little pieces. It crumbles.

M. No, Ion. It does not form crumbs-observe the little pieces that fall off.

Ion. Yes, I see; they are not like crumbs--they all have sharp edges. And when you break a piece of glass, it breaks as quickly as the crust, and all the pieces have sharp edges.

M. Yet, the glass is very hard. Now, when a hard substance

breaks quickly into pieces with sharp edges, we call it "brittle." Tell me some other brittle sub

stances.

W. Egg-shells, and plates and dishes, are brittle.

Ada. So are china ornaments. Ion. The blade of a penknife; sealing-wax; slate-pencil; and flint-stones.

W. And my bones are brittle. Don't you remember when I broke my arm?

M. Tell me something that is hard, and not brittle.

Ion. A shilling; the coffeepot; the poker.

Ion. It is not always brittle; only sometimes. See me biting my crust now, the particles do not separate until I pull one part away from another.

L. When it is in this state, it is tough. So we must say the crust is brown, opaque, hard, sometimes brittle, and sometimes tough.

Ion. It is only tough when it is stale. I think I know why that is. The crumb, you know, is damp, so is the air sometimes. And when the loaf has been made two days, and left on a plate, perhaps the dampness from the crumb gets in between the particles of the crust, and the dampness from the air too.'

W. Yes, and the dampness softens the particles; so the crust, instead of being brittle, becomes tough.

M. We will now notice the CRUMB of the bread.

Ion. The crumb is full of little holes.

M. We call these holes "pores."-So, in order to remember that the crust has pores, we say it is porous.

W. And, the other day, at dinner-time, when I put a piece of bread in the gravy on my plate, it sucked it up or absorbed it, as mamma said.

M. Because the crumb absorbs gravy and other fluids through these little pores, we say it is absorbent. Mention some other absorbent substances.

W. Sponge, blotting-paper, flannel, potatoes. So is the earth, -how it sucked up (no, sucked down,) the rain last week!

Ion. The pavement, too, is absorbent, but not so much as the ground.

M. Do you know why? W. Because it has not so many holes or pores in it.

M. Perhaps it has quite as many pores, but they are not so large as those of the ground.

L. No, for the pavement is harder. That is, its particles are closer together, so the pores between them must be smaller.

W. We will say, then, hard things are not so absorbent as soft things, because they have not such large pores.

M. It is generally so.

Ion. It is so with the bread. The crumb is soft, and is very absorbent. The crust is hard, and is only rather absorbent.

L. The crumb has some other quality, because it is absorbent. If it has such large pores, it cannot have so many particles—so it cannot weigh so much as the crust. W. Of course not. So it is light;-that will make four qualities. The crumb is yellowishwhite, porous, absorbent, and light. How light sponge is too! That is very absorbent.

Ion. And then, again, because it is porous, you may easily press it down with your finger. It is not hard, like the crust.

M. No, it is soft, like sponge. Here is something else to be observed;-I have cut a thin slice of the crumb. Now, if you hold up to the light a very thin piece of crust, you cannot see through it; when I hold this piece of crumb to the light, and move my finger behind it, I can see it moving.

L. Yes, mamma. You see through the pores :—it is transparent.

W. But it is not so transparent as glass; you cannot see to read through it. It is only half-transparent.

M. That is right, Willie; but you had better say semi-transparent. The word "semi" means half.

Ion. Then, if we want to be exact, we must say-the crumb, when it is cut into thin slices, is semi-transparent.

W. How one quality mak other qualities! How many

qualities it has because it is porous!

Because it is porous, it is absorbent.

Because it is porous, it is light. Because it is porous, it is soft. Because it is porous, it is semitransparent; and because it is porous, it is-it easily breaks into crumbs. What name shall I give to that quality, mamma?

M. I will tell you another time. Now repeat the qualities by which you know one part of the bread from the other. L. I will say them— THE CRUST is THE CRUMB is Yellowish-white, Porous, Absorbent,

Brown,

Opaque, Hard, and Brittle.

Light,
Soft, and
Semi-trans-
parent.

M. These are the qualities which cause the two parts to differ from each other, but there are some other qualities, in which they are both alike.

Ion. They are both fit to eat. M. Then we may say-they are edible.

L. They both nourish us and keep us alive.

L. 3rd. The paste has yeast, potatoes, and salt mixed with it, to make it into dough.

Ion. 4th.-The dough is baked in an oven, and becomes BREAD.

W. So Bread is made from four things, flour, yeast, potatoes, and salt.

Ion. You have forgotten something, Willie.

L. Yes. If you only mixed together those four substances, you might stir them all the day, but they would never make bread.

W. Oh! of course,-I should want some water,-five things. M. Now form the Lesson. Lucy will write it while you dictate.

Object Lesson No. 2.-BREAD.

Bread has two principal parts. These parts differ from each other. The outside part is brown, opaque, hard, and semitransparent, and is called THE CRUST. The inside part is yellowish-white, porous, absorbent, light, soft; when cut in thin slices, is semi-transparent, and is called THE CRUMB.

These parts are also alike, because they are both edible, and

Bread is made from five different substances, viz.:-flour, water, yeast, salt, and sometimes potatoes.

There are many different sorts of bread, such as Wheaten bread; Barley bread; Oaten bread; Rye bread; Brown bread; Cottage bread; and French bread.

W. And" League" bread!
Ion. And Short bread!