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1. "There is one of my glove-buttons gone," said sister Kate, as she was preparing to go out. "How provoking it is! A glove looks so untidy when unfastened."

2. "Just wait a minute, sister," said Annie; "I believe I have some glove-buttons in my box;" and she opened it and took out a little

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tin mustard-box, and pouring its contents into her she soon found the required article. 3. Her handy little needle and silk quickly sewed it on, and she was well repaid by a kiss from her sister, and a hearty "Thank you, Annie dear; your little cabinet of curiosities is a perfect gold mine. You can always find the right thing there;" and she tripped down the steps quite satisfied that all was right.

4. "How long have you had that box, cousin Annie?" asked Ned, who was spending a week at the house.

5. "Ever since she can remember, I guess," said her mother, laughing. "She always was a careful little thing, from the time she could toddle about the floor.

6. "She used to make little collections of buttons and tamarind stones and I do not know what all, when she was four or five years old.

7. "It is a good habit, though, and I am sure we are all indebted to her every day of our lives. It would be a curiosity to keep an account, some day, of the calls she has.'

8. "I think I will do it," said Ned.

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9. Annie opened her little box again, and took out the half of an old envelope and a

little piece of pencil some one had swept out doors.

10. "You can set down these things to begin with," she said, laughing—" a glove-button, a piece of paper, and a pencil."

11. Just then little Martha came running in, with the string of her bonnet in her hand, and she was in "such a hurry."

12. "Run to Annie," said her mother, who was busy making mince pies.

13. Up went the box-lid, and this time a little bag, containing all sorts of odds and ends of old strings and ribbons, was overhauled.

14. The right thing was sure to be there; and taking a threaded needle from a cushion, the string was sewed on in a minute's time, and Mattie was dancing off to her play.

15. "Number four," said Ned, just as father came in and asked Annie if she could find him "a good tow string." He wanted to mend his harness enough to drive to the harnessmaker's to have it repaired.

16. Another little bag was produced, which contained just what was wanted; and with a "thank you, daughter, you are a treasure, and so is your box," he went his way.

17. "Just take your work, and don't stir

from that corner to-day," said Ned, "you'll be wanted. You might set up a store. If they all had as many customers these hard times, they would thrive."

18. "Well, Tommy, what can we do for you?" said Ned, as the boy came into the room. Tommy did not deign to glance at his cousin, but went straight to Annie.

19. "I have lost my mitten, sister, and can't make a snow-man without it. Can I have another?"

20. "Now I guess you are at a stand, Annie," said Ned. "Your resources will fail, for once."

21. Annie smiled, and said to Tommy, "If sister will give you another mitten, will you go out and look hard for the lost one?"

22. The little fellow promised, and was bid to go and warm his feet by the fire a little while.

23. Annie took out a paper pattern and a bit of thick cloth, which was quickly cut into a mitten-shape and sewed up,-all in fifteen minutes' time.

24. Ned looked on, dumb with admiration, and secretly resolved to learn a lesson.

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1. "George, I wish you would arrange your books in a little better order," said his teacher. 2. "I will, by-and-by; but I have not the time just now," returned George.

3. "Take time, then," said Mr. Watson. "Order is the first law of heaven, and it should be the first law on earth.

4. "It will save you much time and ill-feeling to remember this, and put it in practice.

5. "Only this morning, you were half an hour looking for your slate, and so lost your drawing lesson."

6. George was a well-disposed and industrious boy, but he had one very bad fault: he was never ready, but always almost ready, to do what he knew should be done at once; and this habit was the cause of a great deal of trouble, as you will see.

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