evening. Salt water has always a tide, but all fresh water has not. Now the change of wind

turned the tide of the lake, and in the afternoon the boat, which had been tossing about in the middle of the water, tossed back again to the bank of Mr. Hamilton's garden, and there lay rubbing close up to the side.

THE RESCUE.

RCHY was still sitting looking towards home, and Marjy and Fred still slept. The night grew more and more dark, so that the little boy held his breath to listen to every sound, and started each time the wind moved the trees and bushes near him.

At length the moon came out from behind a cloud, and threw a broad light upon the water. Archy saw a dark object rocking to and fro, and he remembered how the boat had drifted back into the middle of the lake, and thought that it must be she. But a little later he heard noises coming nearer and nearer, and then a grating sound, and then footsteps quite close. He did not know what it might be; the darkness and the strange place and the long

tiring day together overcame him; he felt frightened, and he cried aloud.

The cry woke up Fred and Marjy, who started to their feet, and little Moustaches, who began to bark; and the next moment the bushes were parted, and in the moonlight there stood before all the children their own papa.

At the very moment that Archy was asking God to send help to them Mr. Hamilton returned home. Only think how distressed both he and Mrs. Hamilton must have been when they heard from Jane that she could not find the children. Papa ran at once into the garden, saw the boat unmoored from the boat-house, and guessed the truth. Oh, how anxiously he got into another boat! how quickly he pulled to the island, and how eagerly he jumped on shore.

You may be sure that none of the children were silent when they saw him. Marjy sprang into his arms, and Fred and Archy clung to him, and they made all the haste they could to get back to the boat. Mamma was waiting for them on the home.

side, and carried Marjy up to the house, where there was a bright fire to warm and dry them, and something was ready for them to eat.

The next day, when all their cold and hunger and griefs were forgotten, Mr. Hamilton told Archy as they stood in the boat-house, that he was now of an age to know right from wrong without requiring every special thing to be mentioned, and that that "something" which had warned him the day before not to get into the boat was Conscience; and that if he would be a happy boy, and afterwards a happy man, Conscience must be obeyed.

WALTER AND BASIL;

OR,

KEEP YOUR TEMPER.

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CHAPTER I.

THE LUCIFER-MATCHES.

O, I did not. I tell you I did not, you disagreeable boy!" said Walter, with a very red face, to his little brother, Basil.

"Walter," said mamma, who was seated at the other end of the room, writing letters, "Walter, be more gentle; take care; do not contradict your brother."

'Well, but, mamma, I didn't. He says I broke his hoop, and I am sure I didn't."