of glass, and watch-ing for the moth-er who 'stayed a-way so long.' Now, George, why are you not suf-fer-ing, and wretch-ed, like those lit-tle chil-dren ?" George's heart was so full

that he could not an-swer.

"I will tell you why, George; on-ly be-cause God has made you to dif-fer. You are no bet-ter than those lit-tle chil-dren; but while they are born to suf-fer-ing, God has placed you in the midst of com-forts. Is it not worth while, then, to thank him for his great kind-ness, in ma-king our lot so dif-fer-ent from that of man-y? for there are thou-sands of poor chil-dren whose suffer-ings are as great as these." "Oh, yes, dear ma-ma," an-swered George.

"Then the great-est and best of God's gifts to us are the bless-ed Bi-ble and Je-sus the Sa-viour of sin-ners. There are mill-ions of chil-dren in this world, George, who have nev-er heard of the Bi-ble, or the Sa-viour. Why were you not born a lit-tle ig-no-rant heathen child, in-stead of being born in a Christ-ian land, where you are taught the way to heaven?" "Be-cause God gave me a good fa-ther and moth-er," an-swered George.

"Yes, that is just the reason, George; and do we not owe thanks to God for his good-ness in this re-spect?" "Oh yes, in-deed, ma-ma!"

"It would take me a long time, George, to tell you of the man-y, man-y things we have to be thank-ful for; and then there are so man-y blessings to pray for, for our-selves and oth-ers. There

are reasons e-nough why we should kneel to-gether as a fam-i-ly, and by our-selves, mor-ning and night, to thank our heaven-ly Fa-ther for his mercies, and to pray for those things which we need. But here comes pa-pa. Shall we have pray-ers, George?"

"Oh yes, ma-ma, oh yes! I am sure I shall nev-er a-gain think such a wick-ed thought as I did this mor-ning."

Of all the an-i-mals which are found in the Northern Seas, none are more use-ful to the in-hab-itants of those des-o-late coasts than seals. Indeed, we do not know what would be-come of the poor Green-land-er with-out them, for ev-er-y part of the seal con-trib-utes in some way or oth-er to his com-fort and sup-port. The flesh sup-plies him with his prin-ci-pal food; of the fat he makes oil for his lamps and fires in the long dark win-ter

night. The skins are made in-to cov-er-ings for his bed, his tent, and his boats, and al-so in-to clothes for him-self, his wife, and chil-dren. Even the thread to sew these clothes is ob-tained from the seal, by div-i-ding the fi-bres of its sin-ews. The height of the Green-land-er's de-sires and pride is to ex-cel in pur-su-ing and kill-ing seals, and to this la-bour they are care-ful-ly trained from their child-hood.

The seal is ver-y use-ful, but it is an ug-ly, clum-sy an-i-mal, with a large round head, short legs, and webbed feet. I do not think you would much like such a fa-vour-ite, but when taken young they can be tamed; they will then come when they are called by name, and fol-low their mas-ter a-bout like a dog.

Some years a-go a young seal was taken at a short dis-tance from the sea; it was gen-er-al-ly kept in a ves-sel full of salt wa-ter, but sometimes it would crawl a-bout the house, and come to the fire-side. This seal was fed with its nat-ural food, and grew so tame, that though it was taken ev-er-y day to the sea, and put out of the boat in-to the wa-ter, it did not try to e-scape. It would swim af-ter the boat, and al-ways suffered it-self to be taken in-to it and car-ried home a-gain.

Seals live part-ly in the wa-ter and part-ly on the land. Their homes are in hol-low rocks and caves by the sea-side. They al-ways swim with their heads out of the wa-ter, and in sum-mer

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they are very fond of ly-ing on the rocks, and bask-ing in the sun.

Some years a-go a far-mer in Scot-land, who lived near the Firth of Forth, went out to look for lob-sters and crabs, which he ex-pect-ed to find a-mong some rocks on the shore. I do not know whether he found an-y, but he caught a young seal, and brought it home with him. He gave it some pot-tage and milk, which the seal seemed to like ver-y much, and he fed it in this way for three days. The man's wife, how-ev-er, was not pleased with the com-pan-y of her new vis-i-tor, and begged that it might not stay an-y long-er. Ac-com-pan-ied by some of his neighbours, he took the seal back, and threw it in-to the sea; but though this was done sev-er-al times, it al-ways came out a-gain and re-turned to them. At last they a-greed that the tall-est man of the par-ty should take the seal, and walk out in-to the sea as far as he could before he threw it in; and that they should all hide them-selves be-hind a rock at some dis-tance. But the seal was grown so fond of its mas-ter, that it swam to the shore a-gain, and soon found out the men in their hi-ding-place. Its per-se-ve-rance quite o-vercame the far-mer's res-ol-u-tion to part with it, and he took it home with him.

There are very few an-i-mals which are not grate-ful for kind-ness, and ca-pa-ble of feel-ing at-tach-ment to-wards those from whom they receive it. If love and grat-i-tude are thus in

stinct-ive in the brute cre-a-tion, how much more strong-ly should they be felt by those who have the gift of reason, and are there-fore a-ble to under-stand as well as to feel the ben-e-fits conferred up-on them. The seal was at-tached to the far-mer, who kind-ly sup-plied its wants; how much great-er then should be your grat-i-tude for the af-fec-tion-ate and watch-ful care of your pa-rents, and a-bove all, to-wards that great Be-ing, who has im-plant-ed in their hearts such ten-der-ness, and to whose love and mer-cy you are in-debt-ed for ev-er-y bless-ing you enjoy.

Stories of Animals.

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MAN holds him-self up-right on his feet. head is e-rect on his shoul-ders. He has two arms and two legs. He takes hold of things with his hands. The sole of his feet rests up-on the ground.

The head turns to the right and to the left. The top and back of the head is the skull. Up-on it is the hair. With-in the skull is the brain, which is shut up there as in a box of bone. This box se-cures it a-gainst blows. On the face are seen the eyes, nose, mouth, chin, and on each side are the ears. The eyes are shut by means of