but saying that he was sorry to see her eat so little. The stork knew that he was making fun of her; but she made no remark.

Some days after, the stork, in her turn, asked the fox to dine with her. Sly as he was, he did not expect to be paid back in his own coin; so he went. When dinner was served, he was much vexed to see nothing but some meat, cut very small, and placed in a big bottle, the neck of which was very long and very narrow. The stork, putting in her long bill, could help herself to plenty of it; but the fox could only lick the outside of the bottle. The fox asked if that was all the dinner. "O yes," said the stork; "I am glad to see you are so hungry; I hope you will make as good a dinner at my table as I did at yours the other day." The fox felt angry at first; but had at last to own that he had been rightly dealt with. He felt that, if he did not like to have a joke played upon himself, he should not have played one upon the stork.

We should never do to another what we would not like another to do to us.

WRITE-One day the fox asked the stork to dinner.

IX.-LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

True, not false.

Gen'-tle, mild, meek.

Of-fence', displeasure.

Wrath, anger.

Ac'-tions, deeds.

An'-swer, reply.

Sel'-fish, love of self.
Mar, to spoil, to hurt.

CHILDREN, do you love each other?
Are you always kind and true?
Do you always do to others

As you'd have them do to you?
Are you gentle to each other?
Are you careful, day by day,
Not to give offence by actions,
Or by anything you say?
Little children, love each other,
Never give another pain ;
If your brother speak in anger,
Answer not in wrath again.

Be not selfish to each other,
Never mar another's rest;
Strive to make each other happy,
And you will yourselves be blest.

WRITE-Children, do you love each other?

Light'-house, tower with lights | Tip'-toe, on the points of the

to guide ships at sea.

Wreck'-ers, men who wrecked ships.

Seiz'-ed, laid hold of.

toes.

rob Sur-prise', wonder.

Low-water, the tide at its lowest.

UPON the rocky coast of Cornwall there stood some years ago a light-house. It was of great use to sailors in guiding them in dark and stormy nights, and saved many a ship from being dashed to pieces on the rocks.

The light-house was kept by a man and his little girl, and was so placed upon the rocks that, at low water, you could walk from it to the shore, but at high water no

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one could get to it, as no ship could ride in safety among the breakers and the rocks.

One day the good man had gone on shore, leaving his little girl alone in the lighthouse, when some bad men, called wreckers, seized him, and kept him from going back to light his lamps, in the hope that some ships might be driven upon the rocks, when they would reap the spoil. They kept him till long after the tide came in. At last they let him go, and he stood upon the shore very sad. The night was very dark and stormy, and the waves lashed in fury around the light-house, but the lantern at its top was yet dark.

When the little girl saw that her father did not return she was very sad. She looked over the dark and stormy sea, and saw some ships in the distance. She knew that unless the lamps were lighted, the ships would most likely be wrecked. In her distress she knelt down and prayed to God to help her in her trouble. She then walked up into the lantern at the top of the light-house, and tried to light the lamps, but she was far too little to reach them.

Down stairs she went, and with great toil took up a table, on which she stood, but still she could not reach the lamps. Looking about for something else to stand on, her eye fell on her mother's large Bible. She took it up, and placed it on the table. She did not like to stand upon the Bible, but nothing else could be found, so she mounted upon the Book, and standing tip-toe on it, she found she could just reach the lamps.

In a minute all the lamps were lighted, and their bright rays shot far across the dark and stormy sea, to the joy of the sailors, the surprise of her father, and the shame and grief of the wreckers. At the same time her father cried out, "Who lighted the lamps?"

READING AND SPELLING COLUMNS.

Sail'-ors.
Guid'-ing.
Dashed.

Break'-ers.
Light'-ed.
Like'-ly.

QUESTIONS.

Trou'-ble.

Mount'-ed.

Dis-tress'.

What are lighthouses? Where could he not get to the lightare they placed? Describe one. Where was the one in the lesson placed? On what sort of a coast? Who kept it? Where did the man go one day? Who was left behind? Who kept the father from returning in time to light the lamps? Why did they do this? When, then, did the man return? What kind of night was it? What like was the sea? Why

house? What causes high and low water? What state was the girl in when her father did not come? To whom, and for what, did she pray? What did she then do? Why did she fail at first? How did she at last light the lamps? Who was surprised at this? Who grieved? What might have taken place had she not lit the lamps?