As Harry grew older, he only grew | body had confidence enough in him, to trust him with any important matter, or regard enough for him, to make any great effort to help him. tried various kinds of occupation,

He

more fond of play, and more in love with idleness and mischief. When he was ten years old, he could not read respectably, and could not write a word, or a letter. He had been sent to school, but proved so ignorant and unskillbut gave no attention to his lessons. He often strayed away into the fields, or stopped by the way, to play with all the idle boys he met. Many a time, I have seen him in the road, his cap

thrown carelessly on the ground, and his satchel by its side, wasting half the morning in playing at ball, or marbles, with some companion as idle as himself, and paying no heed to the call of the bell, when it rang the hour for school to open. Harry thought this was all fun, and that he knew the way to be happy, better than father, or mother, or teacher, or all the world beside.

Well, in time Harry became a man. His father died. His mother was poor and he was compelled to do something for his own living. But what could he do.

He had never learned anything useful. He had no habits of study, or application, or self denial, all of which are essential

to any kind of success. No

ful in all that he undertook to do, that nobody was willing to employ him long. The employment he obtained was of the lowest and most laborious kind, and that which brought the poorest wages. Harry was often tired and often hungry. He frequently regretted the idle and unprofitable course he had pursued, and wished he had given heed to the advice of his father. Had he been a good reader and writer, with habits of diligence, he might have secured a clerkship in some mercantile house, or a place in a rail-road office. Had he given early attention to his arithmetic, he might have become an engineer, or a surveyor, or perhaps a teacher. But, alas! poor Harry, he was fit for nothing, but plain hard work. He had no resources in himself—no knowledge of history, or the world, no thoughts worth dwelling upon. And, when he thought of his early home, of his kind father, of the many lessons he had received, the warnings he had wantonly slighted, he felt and acknowledged that he was already, as his father had often predicted, coming out of the

LITTLE END OF THE HORN.

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speedily as possible. When he has gone over the last, he goes to the proper distance, and places himself in position for all the players to leap over him in their turn. The first over whom he passed, follows him over the second, third, fourth, etc.; and when he has gone over, the one who begun the game places himself in like manner for the others to jump over him. The third follows the second, and so on until the parties are tired.

The manner of playing Leap-Frog about London is different, and, as we think, much inferior in safety, appear. ance, and amusement:-A lad places himself with his hands on his knees, his body nearly doubled, and his side, instead of his back, turned toward the leapers, who, with a short run, take their leap at some distance from the lad who is to be vaulted over; he who takes his leap the farthest off, is reckoned the best player. This, it may be readily imagined, is by no means so lively as the real game of Leap-Frog, which we have above described. The boy, who is to be leaped over, receives the greater shock from the jumpers; and he is in more danger of being thrown down by, or having a blow on his head from,

THIS is a most excellent pastime. It
should be played in a spacious place,
out of doors if possible, and the more
there are engaged in it, provided they
be of the same height and agility, the
better is the sport. We will suppose a
dozen at play: Let eleven of them stand
in a row, about six yards apart, with all
their faces in one direction, arms folded,
or their hands resting on their thighs,
their elbows in, and their heads bent
forward, so that the chin of each rests
on his breast, the right foot advanced,
the back a little bent, the shoulders
rounded, and the body firm. The last
begins the sport by taking a short run,
placing his hands on the shoulders of the
nearest player, and leaping with their
assistance-of course, springing with his
feet at the same time-over his head, as
represented in the cut. Having cleared
the first, he goes on to the second, third,
fourth, fifth, etc. in succession, and as alone.

their knees.

WHISKEY drinking never conducted wealth into a man's pocket, happiness to his family, or respectability to his character; therefore, whiskey is a nonconductor, and it is best to let it

Adventures at Sea.

HERE are some adventures in the history of every sailor, that are not only worth relating, but worth all the trouble, pain, and weariness they cost. Let me, very briefly, touch on a few of my own.

a great variety of aspects. Sometimes they would glisten and blaze in the light of the sun, like cliffs of pure crystal. Sometimes one of the huge cliffs would throw its dark shadow upon the other, and change the dazzling glow to a cold bleak, inhospitable frown. Occasionally, as portions of the surface melted in the sunbeams, or as the spray dashed up We were in a very high lati- the sides of the cliff, little rills would be tude, and on the look-out for ice. One formed, and rushing together into one, morning, at daybreak, we found our-dash down furiously to the depths beselves in the neighborhood of several low. We came to anchor under the lee immense icebergs, and surrounded, on of one of those ice-mountains, and sent every side, with floating ice. It was a out our boats to reconnoitre for an outscene of great sublimity and beauty. let. The men, well attired and otherHere were some forty or fifty floating wise prepared for the work, disembarked mountains, or islands, with mountain on the ice, clambered up the rugged and cones shooting up over all their surface, slippery cliffs, with the aid of spears, and reaching to the height of from 300 harpoons, and boat-hooks, and seemed to 500 feet. They were of different greatly to enjoy the sport. On one of

the cliffs, they found a polar bear, who had deserted his Arctic home, and taken free passage for a warmer clime. They tried to capture him, but he was too wide awake for that, so they left him to his fate, which was probably a grave in the Gulf-stream.

After a long succession of calms and adverse winds, which

dimensions, and heights, and presented | seemed to combine against us, we