1. Frank was playing about the well-curb with his bright new penknife in his hand, when, alas! it slipped from his fingers and dropped into the well.

2. He heard it ringing, and saw it glancing down the old mossy stones, and he was almost tempted to spring down after it.

3. As it was, he could only go into the house and tell his grief to his kind mother, who sympathized with him, and very likely told him what a good thing it was to be careful, and all that.

4. Uncle John sat by the window, and, when he had heard the sad tale, he asked a few questions about it. "Was the knife open?"

5. "Yes, sir," said Frank. "I was making a fiddle out of a shingle."

6. "Well, don't give up until we see what can be done." So saying, he took a little

looking-glass out to the well, and directed a bright sunbeam to search in the bottom for the missing knife.

7. "There it is, uncle, Oh, there it is!" shouted Frank, in great excitement; "I see the pearl handle. Now if the sunbeam could

only fish it up," he added sorrowfully.

8. Uncle John said nothing, but walked into the house, and pretty soon came out with a good horse-shoe magnet, attached to a stout string.

9. Very carefully he lowered the magnet, keeping the sunbeam fixed on the spot, and presently the magnet touched the bright steel. It clung fast to the bar, and was fished up by it, to the great joy of Frank.

10. You see what a good thing a little science is. Knowledge is power. Gather it now, while in childhood and youth, so you may never have cause to regret your want of it.

QUESTIONS ON LESSON LI.-What is this story about? What is a penknife? Why so called? How and where did Frank lose his ? How did he feel about it, and what did he do? What did his mother say? Who was by and heard what they said? What did Uncle John say? What did he do? How did he direct the sunbeam? How could it tell where the knife was? Was the knife found? Was it got out of the well? How?

FIRST PARAGRAPH.-What is a well-curb? What is the use of a well-curb? Did you ever see one? Describe it, What is the meaning of 66 ringing"? of " glancing"? of "old mossy stones"? What was

it that Frank heard ringing? What made it ring? What were the stones there for? Were they "old mossy stones" when put there? What made them mossy? 66 What does tempted" mean? Who was tempted? What was he tempted to do? What tempted him to do it? What does "to spring down" mean?

What kind of a word is well-curb? Of what simple words is it made? How? Is not " penknife" made of two words? Of what two? Is it written as a compound word? Why not? Is there a derivative word in the first line? From what is playing derived, and how? What other derivative can you make from "play"? Look in the book and tell me what other derivative words are in this paragraph, and from what each is derived, and how formed?

SECOND PARAGRAPH.-How is careful derived? Meaning of "care"? of "full"? What then does "careful" mean? What is the meaning of "careless"? "careworn"? of "sorrowful"? of "causeless"?

1. Robin, come and call me early,
Sing to me at faintest dawn,

Pipe thy notes when dewdrops pearly
Flash and sparkle on the lawn.

2. Robin, tell me when the morning
Rouses life from dewy sleep,
When its beams, thy home adorning,
O'er the eastern hilltops creep.

3. 'Mong the boughs I see thee flitting,
Warbling joyous notes of cheer
To thy mate, who, patient sitting,
Broods upon her nestlings dear.

4. Ever pleasant is thy singing,

Gushing forth so soft and sweet;
But I love its gentle ringing

Most when night and moonlight meet.

5. Come, then, Robin, come and call me,
With thy matin-note of song;

Let its melody inthrall me,

Cheer me, thrill me, all day long.

SUSAN AND THE ROSE.

1. Susan Taylor was a very discontented girl. She was never pleased with any thing, but was always looking out for what was disagreeable, and not for what was pleasant.

2. As she was going away from home, one day, her grandmother asked her if she would like a rose to place in the bosom of her dress.

Susan was very fond of flowers, and so she said, "I would like one."

3. Away went her grandmother, with her cane in her hand, into the little garden, and picked the finest rose there was.

4. There were two buds growing on the same stem with the rose, and the leaves were as fresh and as green as the leaves of a rosebush could be.

5. You may suppose that Susan was not a little surprised when her grandmother took the scissors and snipped off the beautiful rose, together with the two buds and the green leaves, and offered her only the stem, all covered with thorns.

6. "O, grandmamma! this is not a rose. Do you think that I will put that ugly stem in my dress, without a single flower or leaf upon it? No; that I never will! You do not deserve to have roses growing in your garden, if you spoil them in this way."

7. "Perhaps not," mildly replied her grandmother; "but there are other people in the world, besides me, who spoil their roses.

8. "Then," said Susan, "they must be very silly people."

9. "I think so, too," replied her grand