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"OUR FATHER.”

EVERY night before Arthur goes to bed he kneels at his mamma's knee and says "Our Father, who art in heaven;" and then his mamma tells him what a loving father that Father in heaven is, and how every good thing that he possesses comes as His gift; how her love, and his papa's love, and his little sister's love is really God's love, for it is God that gives him all that love; and she tells him how he can show he loves his Father in heaven by being kind and good, and unselfish, and by loving all those around him, even poor dumb animals, for

"Love to God is best arrayed

In love to all the things that God has made.” And Arthur determines that he will try and love God in that way, and then he goes to bed, so happy; and as he lays his head on his pillow, he prays that he may always love his Father in heaven.

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NAUGHTY MISS LILLIE.

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NAUGHTY Miss Lillie crept down very quietly from the nursery and found her way into the store-room, where her mamma kept jams, and all sorts of nice things. When she got there she was greatly disappointed, for all the nice things were out of her reach, and she could find nothing but a little milk, which she did not want, so she gave it to pussy. But just as she was coming away, she saw a little pot on a shelf which she thought looked like a pot of jam; so she got upon a stool and stood on tiptoe, and by that means succeeded in reaching it. But at that very moment she heard nurse's voice, and she was so frightened (for she knew that she was doing wrong) that she tumbled down, stool and pot and all; and the pot was filled with treacle, which ran down over her face and arms and pretty new frock, and a nice mess she was in when nurse picked her up.

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ROBINSON CRUSOE.

HAVE you ever heard about Robinson Crusoe? He ran away from home when he was a boy, and went to sea in a big ship; but the ship he sailed in was wrecked in a storm, and no one was saved except himself. He was

thrown upon a desert island, where he lived for ever so many years. without speaking to a single human being, for the island was quite uninhabited. Poor Robinson Crusoe was very lonely at first; but he did not despair, for he thought that perhaps some day a ship might come there and take him away. So he built himself a little house of logs of wood, and made himself a goatskin coat; for there were plenty of goats on the island, although there were no men, and the goats supplied him with milk to drink, flesh to eat, and a coat to wear. One day he caught a parrot, and taught it to talk; and this parrot and two cats and a dog were the only companions he had.

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