7. George was the only child of his mother, and she was a widow.

8. One morning she said to him, "George, I wish you would fasten the hinge on the garden-gate. I am afraid the cattle will get into the garden."

9. "I have not the time now, mother; I shall be late to school if I stop to do it now. You know I could not cut the wood last night, and I must do that now. After school I will fix it."

10. "There! mother," said George, as he was about to retire at night, "I forgot all about that gate. Well, it can not be helped now. I will fix it in the morning."

11. But during the night, the cattle got into the garden, and destroyed every thing in it; even the currant bushes and little pear-trees were broken down.

12. There was not a cabbage, nor a hill of corn, nor a melon, to be found, where, the night before, they all looked so nicely.

13. George wept, but that did not mend the matter; and he tried to console himself by saying, he would have mended the gate, but he had not the time.

14. "The better way," said his mother, "is

to take time, and not leave for to-morrow what should be done to-day."

15. George resolved he would follow his mother's advice, and for a time he really did better; but he soon relapsed into his old habit.

16. That very fall, a horse was drowned in a well, because the boy had not the time to cover it.

17. When he grew to be a man, the same habit clung to him. His house was burned, with all its contents.

18. It had been insured, and George meant to renew the insurance; but he had put it off day by day, because he "had not the time" to attend to it.

19. George's habit of putting off till some other time what he should have done at once, was the cause of his ruin.

20. This habit has ruined many a wellmeaning boy besides George. Shall it ruin you, my little reader?

21. It is not easy to change habits. Those that cleave to us through childhood and youth will, most generally, go with us through life. How necessary, then, that you form right

habits now.

1. "What is your name?" said I to my friend's little girl, as she came up to me.

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2. I'm Aunt Lina's Sunshine," was the pleasant answer of the child, whose soft blue eyes told me that she was a joy, indeed, to those around her.

3. "That is a queer name. Why do they call you so?" said I.

4. Shaking back her long ringlets, and looking up to me with those earnest, speaking eyes, she said, "Aunt Lina is papa's sister; she is blind and can not see any thing; not the pretty flowers, nor the soft, white clouds, nor the birds.

5. "She hears the birds sing, though; but she can not see their pretty colors. She feels the warm sunshine, too, but she can not see how beautiful it makes the meadows look after the rain.

6. "Sometimes, when she is sad and lonely, she calls me to her, and I sit on my little stool by her side, and say the pretty verses to her that I learn in the Sabbath-school; and I have learned some hymns, too, and I repeat those to her; and then she calls me her sunshine. Don't you think it is very nice to be Aunt Lina's sunshine?"

7. "Yes, indeed I do. You are a real little missionary."

8. "No, I'm not a missionary. I know who the missionaries are. They are people who go a great way off to the poor heathen that don't know any thing about God, and tell them about Him. What made you say that I was a missionary?"

9. "Because missionaries do good, and you do good to Aunt Lina, don't you?"

10. "I don't tell her about God, because she knows all about Him, and she tells me pretty Bible stories;" and the child stopped and thought a moment, and then looked up and added, "No, I'm not a missionary ; I'm only Aunt Lina's Sunshine."

11. I wonder how many of my little friends are sunbeams in their homes! All have not an Aunt Lina to gladden by their love and

kindness; but all can bring sunshine to their homes, and make them bright and cheerful.

12. An act, a word, a smile, a look, showing that the heart is full of love, will give a gladness more precious than the brightness of sunshine.

QUESTIONS ON LESSON XLIII.—What blind person is mentioned ? Who is Aunt Lina? Who is her "Sunshine"? Why is the little girl called "Aunt Lina's Sunshine"? Who said she was a little missionary? Why did he call her a missionary? What idea did the little girl have of a missionary? How can all children bring sunshine to their homes?

What is sunshine? What does "sunshine" mean, as here used? What is it to be a sunbeam? What is it to be "sunbeams," as mentioned in p. 11?

What is "I'm"? What is the mark between the I and the m called? Why is it used? Of what words is "don't" made? Of what is "can't"? Should " can not" be written as one or two words? (Two.) What is the sound of o in don't? in do? of the a in can't? in can?

1. A meadow-lark was killed by the stroke of a scythe while in her nest, and of course