and in the scuffle I was dropped on the sidewalk. Here I lay some time, until an old man, walking slowly along, espied me, picked me up, and, sticking me carefully upon the corner of his coat, walked towards his home. This good old man proved to be a gardener. He had passed his whole life in cultivating a garden, and the fruits and flowers it produced supplied him with the necessaries of life. In one corner of his garden he had a range of bee-hives, and he would often stand resting himself on his hoe, and gaze for minutes at a time at these busy creatures would see them leave their hive, and come to repose themselves on the flowers which he had cultivated for them, and which he knew they loved. I could sometimes hear him singing over those lines of Watts, which he had probably learnt in his youth

"How doth the little busy bee

Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From
every opening flower!

"How skilfully she builds her cell!

How neat she spreads her wax!

And labors hard to store it well

With the sweet food she makes."

While he was one day working in his gar den, a little girl came running in, and said to him, "Here, dear grandpapa, I have brought you a nice pair of stockings of my own knitting, which I think you will find very comfortable when the cold weather comes on."

"Thank you, thank you, my dear little Susan, for being so kind and so industrious; but you have run so fast that the pin has dropped from your cape, and it is falling from your shoulders. Here, I have one, as usual, stuck in my jacket." Saying this, he drew me from my resting-place, and gave me to the little girl, who had only time to fix her dress, walk round the garden a few moments with her grandfather, when, receiving from him a pretty bunch of flowers he had gathered for her as they walked, she kissed him, and bidding him goodby, she hastened to her home.

I found my new mistress was employed somewhat in the same manner my old friend Peggy had been, in the house of a very fashionable lady. It was the business of Susan to take care of the chamber of Mrs. Prim: this was the name of the lady into whose house I now entered, in company with Susan.

Susan set about her work with great activity; and she had but just finished putting

things in order, when two great girls, badly dressed, and worse mannered, came into the room, accompanied by their governess, who laughed and talked as loud as they did.

In romping about the room, they knocked down and broke a very beautiful china vase, which stood on a table in the corner of the room. They began to dispute who was the most to blame on this occasion; but the governess settled the matter, by proposing that they should have recourse to a species of cement, which stuck the pieces together; charging them both never to tell what had happened.

"What would you have done, my little Susan, if you had broken this jar?" said one of the girls; "you would not have known how to mend it up as we have done."

"I should have been in despair," answered Susan, "if such a misfortune had happened to me; but I should have confessed my fault, for fear some one else might be blamed for having done it."

"O, indeed! you pretend to be better than any body else! Come, girls, let us run off, and leave this little preacher to herself."

The governess, having said this, was leaving the room with her two pupils. Unfortu

nately for me, as she was flaunting along, she tore the corner of her shawl against a nail in some part of the furniture, and accepted of me. to repair the damage.

I sauntered round with the governess for some time longer, in company with the two girls, until they agreed at last to pass an hour at their studies.

The morning having passed in this way, I was shocked to hear the governess tell their mother, that the young ladies were two angels, and that they had been hard at work all day, and were the most industrious little creatures in the world.

I was much grieved that I had been forced to part with innocent and amiable companions, and be placed with those of an entirely opposite character; and I resolved to take the first opportunity to leave my present abode.

Miss Grammar, the governess, had made use of me to fix a part of her head-dress, and in one of the shakes, which she was in the habit of making, of her head, I fell upon the floor, and an elderly lady, who happened to be visiting Mrs. Prim at the time, espied me, and, picking me up, made use of me to confine her mantle.

Mrs. Prior, the lady whom I now had the