I must not stay; but will you not-
Oh, will you not-come too?"
My home is very beau-ti-ful,
And there is room for you."

COME, and I will tell you a story about a bird's nest.

Little Fanny Mor-ton having finished a seam her Mama had given her to sew, and her brother Harry having said a good lesson, they were allowed to take a walk in the garden.

While she was tying up a flower which the wind had bent down, Harry called

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out, "Fanny, Fanny! come and see what I have found; it is a pretty bird's nest, with five blue eggs." Fanny went to look at it, and admired it very much.

"I

should like to take it," said the little boy, "and string the eggs upon a piece of thread." "Oh no, you must not indeed," said his sister: "Mama would be very angry; you know she has often told us that it is very cruel to take the nests, and make the poor birds so un-hap-py. It - will be a great deal more pleas-ant to see

the young ones, than to have the eggs upon a string."

Harry found his sister was in the right; and, after listen-ing to her some time, he said, "Well then, I won't take it; but we will come and look at it every day." They then ran to-geth-er into the house to tell their Mama what a pretty nest they had found. The next day they came to peep at it again, and saw the old bird sitting upon it.

After vis-it-ing the nest every day for a week, they found that the eggs were all hatched, and that there were five young birds. They were poor little bare things, with scarce-ly any feathers upon them; all open-ing their mouths, as wide as they could, for something to eat; and their mother had flown away to seek some food for them. Fanny and her brother went to look at the birds very often, and were very much pleased to see that they grew every day, and were at length quite covered with pretty brown feathers; and one day, when the chil-dren went to look at them, they found that they had all

flown away. Soon after, they saw them hopping along the walks, and the old birds feeding them.

Harry, when he went into the house, asked his Mama if he might not take the nest, now that the birds were done with it? She told him, that he might take it if he pleased in another week. Harry did not forget to fetch it at the time his Mama gave him leave. He and his sister looked at it, and were much pleased to see how neatly it was made of moss and hay woven to-geth-er, and lined with hair, wool, and feathers, to make it soft and warm for the young ones.

Fanny did not see how the little birds could make so pretty a nest without hands; she thought they must be very clever to do it all with their feet and bills, and had a great mind to try if she could make such a one; but after taking a great deal of pains to get the ma-te-ri-als, she found she could not put them to-geth-er so as to make a nest; and that she was not so little birds.

clever as the

Who took a walk? After the nest? After a few days what what? Where did they walk? came out of the eggs? How What did Fanny do to a flower? long did they watch the young What broke it? What did Harry ones? What at last did they do ask her to go and see? How with the nest? Why do this? many eggs were in it? What What did they think of the nest? did Harry wish to do with them? What did the birds make the Who forbade this? Why? What nest of? In the making of it did Harry answer? When did what did they show? Harry and Fanny return to see

WRITE-Fanny did not see how the little birds could make so pretty a nest without hands.

WRITE-1st, The names of trades. 2nd, The names of articles used by a mason.

MR. ADAM WHITE, a great hunter, had gone in search of a tiger that had carried off a cow, and he thus tells the story: