bet of the names of places mentioned in the Bible, while the others were completing their lists. We will give Arthur's alphabet as a specimen, as his was the most perfect one; all the other children had omitted the letter F, as that letter does not exist in the Hebrew language, and only Arthur remembered that Ph takes the place of F, and put these letters in its place.

CHAPTER V.

SCRIPTURE PICTURES.

HIS afternoon I will show you what used to be our favourite Sunday occupation when I, your mother, and aunts were children. We each draw a little

picture of some scene out of the Bible, and each person guesses what the others have drawn," said Aunt Myra. The children were delighted, and all set to work, taking great pains to draw their pictures as well as they could, and putting a little frame round them, of two lines neatly ruled about half-an-inch apart, which space was filled in by a pattern. Much amusement was caused by guesses over the drawings of the younger children; little Bertram had, at last, to explain what his drawing meant, which he did by telling the history of Joseph, ending up with, "And then, at last, his brothers they pitied him, and that is what my picture is."

"Oh, auntie," cried Evelyn, laughing, "he means they put him into a pit."

"I said so," repeated Bertram, "they pitted him."

"That showed they had no pity," said Arthur, and the rest laughed; but little Bertram looked troubled, for a young child never likes being laughed at. Aunt Myra took him at once upon her knee, and said, "Bertram has told us the history of his picture, and I think we will all follow his example, and tell each one the story we have tried to draw."

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FLOWERS.

EE, dear Aunt Myra, we have got such a pretty bunch of flowers for you. Bertram and I got them all out of our own little gardens," said Evelyn, one Sunday afternoon.

"Thank you, dear children, they are lovely," said their aunt, taking the flowers.

"The rest of the lupins were not awake," said little Bertram; "so I only got one."

"He means they are all in bud," said Evelyn.

"I understand; but I like Bertie's idea of the sleeping flowers,” said Aunt Myra, smiling. "Suppose we make a Sunday game out of flowers to-day, when brothers and sisters come in?"

"Amy and Lilias would like that; they know so much about flowers," said Evelyn. Amy and Lilias were two little cousins who had come to stay with the children of Ashleigh.

Soon all were assembled round the table; and Aunt Myra, showing her flowers, proposed that each child should try to make a bouquet of Bible flowers, writing out the verses in which the name of the flower occurred. For a long time nothing

was heard but little fingers turning over the leaves of the Bible; then a sigh from Evelyn: "My bunch will only have one flower in it."

'I will give you a flower out of my bunch," said kind-hearted little Amy. "Come round to me, and I will show you the verse in my Bible; you can take it instead of me."

I daresay I shall have the largest bunch of all, because I have got Aunt Myra to help me," said Bertram.

“Well, I think, Amy shall begin,” said Aunt Myra, when the time was up. "How many flowers have you, my dear?"

"I have a rose, and a lily, and some myrtle, and some fig-leaves to put round them," said Amy. "Is not that a pretty bunch? Now, may I read the texts aloud?" And the little girl read in a clear voice the beautiful words of Scripture.

"I have got myrrh and corn," said Evelyn.

“I made my bunch of nothing but spices," said Nelly. "I have got myrrh the same as Evelyn, only I have got a different text for it. Here are