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1. O THAT it were my chief delight
To do the things I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I am taught.

2. Wherever I am bid to go,
I'll cheerfully obey;

Nor will I mind it much, although
I leave a pretty play.

3. When I am bid, I'll freely bring
Whatever I have got;

And never touch a pretty thing,
If mother tells me not.

4. When she permits me, I may tell
About my little toys;

But if she's busy or unwell,
I must not make a noise.

3 Pronounced biz'zę.

1 Pronounced tâwt.

2 Pronounced hwōt-ěv'er.

4 Pronounced prit'tę.

5. And when I learn my hymns to say,
And work, and read, and spell,

I will not think about my play,
But try to do it well.

6. For God looks down from heaven on high, Our actions to behold,

And he is pleased when children try
To do as they are told.

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1. RICHARD JONES was a kind boy. He loved his father, and mother, and the baby: and not only these, whom he could not help loving, but he was fond of the good boys who went to the same school with him.

2. He was kind to the cat and the dog, and also to the bird that hung in a cage over the window.

1 Pronounced thâwt. 2 Pronounced e-nuf'.

3 Pronounced pë'pl.

3. He would save some of his milk for puss, and he would take Rover, the dog, out for a walk, which was the best way to make Rover happy; and when he came home from school, he would bring some little green plant for the poor little bird that was shut up in the cage.

4. The cat, and the dog, and the bird, therefore, all loved him, and were glad to see him come home from school. Puss used to purr round his legs, and Rover barked for joy, and the poor little bird sung a happy song.

5. His father and mother were very glad to see Richard too, for he was a good boy at school, and learned his lessons well, and for this reason they liked to make him happy when he came home.

6. People are never sorry to see good boys come home; it is only cross, idle boys that we are glad to send away, and sorry to see coming back again.

7. But Richard, like other boys, had his faults. He tried to cure them, but he did not try so hard as he ought to have done. He forgot that it was wrong to do some things which he wished to do.

8. One of his chief faults was that he liked

to throw stones. He was strong, and he could throw them a long way; and when he found he could throw them farther than other boys, he liked to show his skill.

9. He forgot that his father had often said that it was very wrong to throw stones, and that he might hit some one, or do other harm.

10. He even forgot that he had often told his mother that he would not throw stones any more, and that once he had hit poor Rover's leg, and made him howl with pain.

11. Richard was very sorry at the time, and really thought that he never would throw any more stones; but when he saw two of his play-fellows the next day trying to throw stones as far as they could, and knew that he could send a stone much farther, though he was not so big as they were, he was so silly as to break his promise.

12. He did not forget his word, but he thought that he would throw only a very little stone, and then, even if it did hit any one, it could do no harm.

13. Now it was just as wrong to throw a little stone as a large one, after he had said he would never throw any more stones.

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XXX.-DO NOT THROW STONES. CONTINUED.

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1. WHEN he once began, he found that a little stone was not heavy enough, that it could not go so far as a large one, and then he really forgot all about every thing but how strong he was, and how much farther he could throw than his playmates.

2. So he threw and threw, and his mind was quite full of his play, and he did not

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