PAR-TY of chil-dren were one day look-ing at a large globe. Kate showed Fred and Jane which was the land, and which was the sea; which was the North Pole, and which was the South; and where to find a great man-y pla-ces.

"How I-should like to go round the world," said Fred.

"You must go in a ship, then,"

said Jane, "I am sure of that; for I can see no land that goes quite round the earth." "I know that I must go in a ship. I should like to have been one of those men who first sailed to the New World, as it is called. Kate, will you tell me once more of those men who sailed o-ver the sea, and found a New World? You said you had read it in a large book, and I liked so ver-y much what you told me."

"What I then told you, Fred, I have since written down. We will go and sit on the lawn, in

the shade of the plane tree, while I read it to you. It will be cool there, and it is so hot in the house."

They all went out on the lawn, and Kate brought a small book with her, and be-gan to read.

"An old man came back to his home, which he had left for man-y years; his friends came round him, ask-ing him where he had been, and what he had seen; and this was one of the tales he told them :

"I left the shores of the isle which had been my home; with a pang of grief I cast back a long, sad look on the fair land of my birth.

"The soft breeze curled the blue sea, and the bright sun-light played up-on the deep. Our ships, with their sails swell-ing in the breeze, cut through the waves, and bore us o-ver the main-the gale sung in the shrouds, the ropes shook, the masts bent to the wind, the sails filled with the wind, and, as our barks rode on the deep, they left a track of white froth on the sea.

"Day by day the wind blew from the East, and we held our way right on to the West, where the

sun sets.

"Our hearts were full of hope, we blest the breeze that did not change, for we were bound to the West; it was there we hoped to find a New World. On we sped. One week was gone, and still the gale blew strong from the East. Two weeks were past, and still the same East wind. We held on our course. All was sea-no land. At

morn, at noon, at eve, we looked for land-in vain; we saw no shore.

"The fourth week now had passed-still all was sea; at morn we seemed still to be where we had been at night, and at night where we had been at morn. Our men, once so full of hope, once so bold, grew sad, and full of fears. They spoke of home, of their friends, and asked, when shall we see them a-gain?

"One night, thick clouds hung o'er the sea, the wind came in gusts, the waves rose and dashed o-ver the reel-ing ship. Vain was the skill of the sea-men, the ship drove be-fore the storm.

"You who dwell at home, know noth-ing of the deep. When the wind blows you walk a-long the shore, and, as the waves leap and toss, you think and say, how grand, how large, how fine they are, and you smile to see them break up-on the sand; but he, who once has known a storm at sea, nev-er sees the huge waves swell and roar, and beat up-on the shore-he nev-er hears the wind howl round his home-but he thinks of the sea-men's toils.

"Three days and nights we drove be-fore the storm, and then the rain fell, and the wind grew still, and the sea calm: but still no land. The men looked gloom-y, and said they would work the ship no lon-ger; and we thought we must give up the search for a New World, and seek once more our own shores. Yet how were we to do this? The wind still blew from the East, and bore us on to the West.

"All at once I heard a shout, and one of our men point-ed to a bird fly-ing slow-ly o-ver head. I never had heard so sweet a sound as the cry of that bird, for it told that the bird had come from land, and that we were not far from the shore it had left. Three days more passed, and we saw more signs of land: weeds float-ed on the waves, birds were on the wing, and soft breez-es brought sweet scents from the shore. That night we stood up-on the deck and watched till the dawn, when, like a cloud on the edge of the sea, we saw a long grey line of coast. We left the ships in our boats, and row-ing through the calm waves, we leaped on shore, and kneel-ing down, we kissed the earth; we prayed, and wept our thanks to God.

Hard by the spot where we left our boats a brook was flow-ing. I stooped down and drank, and nev-er did I taste so sweet a draught.

The men who dwelt in that New World soon came round us; their skins were not white, like ours, but of a dark brown hue. They had spears and bows in their hands, and at first they looked at us as if they thought we were their foes, and that we should do them harm; but when they found we did not mean to hurt or wrong them, their looks grew calm and mild.

"When night came on, there rose from the woods what seemed bright sparks of fire, but we found these sparks were swarms of flies, which gave out light. Fire-flies we call them.

"Our new friends led us to a large hut, our home for that night. The roof and walls were built of boughs and canes and trunks of trees; nets formed of reeds hung from the walls and roof. We lay down in these nets, and slept in peace."

"And this is the end of my tale," said Kate, as she shut the book.

"All that I have to read to you; but you will one day read a great deal more a-bout the New World, and those who first found it."

The fla-vour of this cor-dial is ver-y rich.

Tom is a pi-ous boy; he is joy-ous and hap-py, and ren-ders ser-vice to all who are near him. All the par-ties who were en-gaged sta-ted their o-pin-ions with great can-dour, but the judge felt in-clined to fa-vour none of them.

*Pronounced ur, us, yun, yal.