We can

READING.

We should all try to read well.

learn to do a thing only by doing our best. If we try hard, we shall soon learn to read and write very well.

If we are good boys and girls, we may grow up to be good men and women.

If we learn while we are at school, when we grow up we may be wise and good. Then all our friends will love us.

BIRDIE.

Birdie, birdie, quickly come!
Come and take this little crumb;
Go, and fetch your little brother,
And be kind to one another.

Birdie, sing a song to me,
I will very quiet be;

Yes, my birdie-yes, I will,
Be so quiet and so still.

Oh! so still, you shall not hear me,
Fear not birdie, fear not me;
Tell me in your pleasant song,
What you're doing all day long.
How do you pass the rainy days?
Tell me all about your plays.
Have you lessons, birdie? tell-
Do
you learn to read and spell?

It is

Do you see the tree in the field? an oak tree. The roots are deep in the earth, and they keep the tree alive.

The oak is a very strong tree, and we use the wood to make ships, and wagons, and many other things.

There are many kinds of trees, such as the ash, the elm, the beech, the pine, the fir, the apple, the pear, and many others.

The parts of a tree are: the roots, the trunk, the branches, the leaves, and the fruit. Can you name them without looking at the book?

Little Kit

Pretty kit, little kit,
Oh! you're a lovely pet!

With your

sleek coat and

your white throat,

And toes as black as jet.

Ch! you

kit, naughty ket,

What is this I find?

Annie's little bird is gone

And Poll's scratched nearly búind;

With the sun-rise the day dawns. Light then begins to spread over the earth. When it is quite light, the morning has come and it is time to get up. Noon is at twelve

After

o'clock. Before noon is the fore-noon.
noon is the after-noon. In the evening you
can see the sun set, that is, go out of sight.
It then begins to grow dark. It is then

dusk. By and
By and by it is quite dark.
it is night, and it is time to go to bed.

J. G. Watts.

Then

See the sun rise! It will be a fine day. The hens have left the roost. The birds are singing, and flying from tree to tree. Every thing looks so fresh and cheerful! Does it not?

The men have gone to the field; some to plough and some to hoe. Look at the shepherd with his dog. He is going to the hills to bring home the sheep.

The smithy begins to clink, clink. The shutters are all taken down, one by one, for every one is awake.

THE TOAD AND THE FROG.

Croak, croak, said the toad, I'm hungry I think,
To-day I've had nothing to eat or to drink,
I'll crawl to a garden and jump through the pales,
And there I'll dine nicely on slugs and on snails

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