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11. "So you will find it in the world: the treatment we receive from others is generally the reflection and echo of our own be-hav'ior to them.

12. "If we are kind and civil to those about us, they cannot well be rude to us; but, if we are harsh and cross, we must not hope that they will treat us better than we treat them."

GET up, little sister! the morning is bright,

And the birds are all singing to welcome the light;

The buds are all opening,

the dew's on the flower;

If you shake but a branch, see, there falls quite a shower.

By the side of their mothers, look, under the trees,
How the young lambs are skipping about as they please!
And by all those rings on the water, I know,
The fishes are merrily swimming below.

The bee, I dare say, has been long on the wing,
To get honey from every flower of the spring;
For the bee never idles, but labors all day,
And thinks (wise little bee!) work better than play.

The lark's singing gayly; it loves the bright sun,
And rejoices that now the gay spring is begun ;
For the spring is so cheerful, I think 't would be wrong,
If we did not feel happy to hear the lark's song.

Get up, for when all things are merry and glad,
Good children should never be lazy and sad;
For God gives us day-light, dear sister, that we
May rejoice like the lark, and may work like the bee.

LADY FLORA HASTINGS.

1. My school'mate, Charles, is a boy whom we all like, but he has one bad hab'it: he is too apt to boast. He will tell you what great things he would do if he had a gun and a sword, and were in a battle.

2. He will tell you that he has the best bat in the school, and the best pocket-knife; that his fa'ther is the best man in the coun'try, and his dog the best dog.

Charles and his

3. The oth'er morn'ing I joined sister as they were going to school. We walked along together. It was a warm day, and we thought we would go through the woods.

4. Charles's sister said that she was afraid of snakes. "Oh! you need n't be afraid of snakes," said Charles; "if I were to see one, I would just take up a big

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stone, and let him have it. Who's afraid of a snake? I could manage a whole nest of snakes."

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5. "But," said I, are you not afraid of a rattlesnake? There was one killed in the hedges near here last June."-"Afraid of a rattlesnake!" cried Charles; "why, I would kill a rattlesnake as easily as I would a mos-qui'to.'

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6. No sooner had he said this, than his sister cried out, "O Charles, look there in the road! Take care!" Charles looked, and saw what he supposed was a snake. In a moment all his boasted courage vanished; and, with a cry of terror, he sprang away from the object in the road, his hat falling off as he sprang.

7. His sister laughed, and I laughed; for it was nothing but a whip-lash which lay in the road, and which looked a little like a snake. Charles ran some distance, as if chased by a dozen rattlesnakes; but, on learning his mistake, he came back.

8. He was a good deal mor'ti-fied by his show of alarm. Boys who boast much are almost always cowards. Whenever Charles's sister hears him boasting loudly now, she whispers, in a friendly way, in his ear, "Re-mem'ber the whip-lash!" He does not boast as much as he did.

1. THERE was a young la'dy named Ger'trude,E who was quite proud. She lived in a fine house, and looked down on her poor neighbors.

2. One day, Ma-ri'a, the daugh'ter of a poor bricklay-er, came and said to her: "My father is dying; he has sent me to en-treat you to come to him, as he has something of im-port'ance to say to you."

3. The young lady re-plied, with a sneer: “It must, indeed, be something of im-port'ance which such a poor man has to say to me! Go a-long! I have nothing to do in your wretch'ed cot'tage!"

4. Maria left her, but, after a while, came back again, almost out of breath, and said: "O, dear young lady! do come now di-rectly! Your mother had a quan'ti-ty of gold and silver con-cealed in the walls during the war time.

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5. Shortly before her death, she charged my father to mention the place of con-ceal'ment to nobody but your-self, as soon as you were twenty years old. But he is now just dying, and cannot wait so long."

6. Miss Gertrude now made as much haste as she could; but when she en'tered the brick'lay-er's house, the good man's spirit had de-part'ed. The life had left his body. Gertrude was almost beside herself with vex-a'tion.

7. She had the walls of her house broken through, sometimes in one di-rec'tion, sometimes in anoth'er, but found not the least trace of the treas'ure.

8. She la-ment'ed now that through her pride she had offend'ed such an honest man in his last mo'ments, and had de-prived herself of a large pos-session. Although, indeed, her grief arose partly from self'ish-ness, and so was worth but little, yet it led her to see her folly, and to re-pent it.

late at school, if we stop," said John Brace; "we have but five minutes in which to get there." 66 Well," said Charles Dare, 66 we can run from here to school in two minutes."

3. "Then we shall arrive quite heated," said John. "I will not risk getting late; you can do as you please, but my advice to you is to come with me.' 4. "Go along, if you will," said Charles; mean to stop, and have a little fun." So John passed on, and the three other boys stopped behind.

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5. Charles Dare and Edward Marston climbed on to the bar of the turn'stile, and Henry Hane began to turn the bar. For a minute or two the riders went round without ac'ci-dent.

6. Charles was in high spirits. "Here we go! here we go!" cried he, throwing up his arms; "faster, Henry! faster!" And Henry doubled his speed.

7. Meanwhile John Brace went to school, where he arrived two or three minutes before the hour. He