a wonderful machine that you could not understand it, even if I tried to explain it all to you."

12. "Then a machine put the Queen's head on us, and another cut the teeth round our edges in the beautiful way you see," said the Halfcrown, grandly.

13. I began to feel very small indeed. But I looked at the great Crown-piece. "Why, he has no teeth at all!" I said.

14. "Hush! hush!" cried the little Sixpence ; "you will get into trouble if you are rude to him! Why, he is the greatest of us all, and hast words on his edge, and a picture of Saint George and the Dragon on one side of him. Besides, he is worth five whole shillings."

15. "And it is quite a treat to see him," said the Half-crown, "for he is so grand, and so heavy to carry, that only a few of his family are made."

LINES WRITTEN IN MARCH.

1. The cock is crowing,
The stream is flowing,

The small birds twitter,
The lake doth glitter,

The green field sleeps in the sun ;
The oldest and youngest

Are at work with the strongest ;
The cattle are grazing,

Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one!

2. Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill

On the top of the bare hill;

The ploughboy is whooping-anon-anon:
There's joy in the mountains,
There's life in the fountains;
Small clouds are sailing,
Blue sky prevailing;

The rain is over and gone!

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THE STORY OF A BAD SHILLING.-Part III.

1. At this moment, "chink!" came another coin on top of us. It fell close by me, and I saw that it was a florin. Its edges were rough like mine. The great Crownpiece growled, "Here is

another of them; this drawer will soon not be fit for respectable coins to live in."

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2. "Oh, I have had such an escape!" said the Florin. She seemed quite out of breath. was as nearly as possible found out, and nailed to the counter of the shop next door. But the woman who had me was so angry that she marched out of the shop, and came in here. Oh dear! how nervous I still feel!"

3. "Nailed to the counter!" I said; what should any one want to nail you to a counter for?" "It is what you and I must come to sooner or later," said the Florin, sadly; but here she stopped, for a penny was by mistake dropped into the drawer, and fell upon me.

4. "You vulgar thing!" said the bad Florin; do go into your own drawer." And I said, "What do you mean by falling on me? for I thought if I spoke very proudly to the poor Penny he would take me for a real shilling. And so he did.

5. "If you please, sir," he said, in a very humble tone, "I was put here by mistake, I suppose. I hope you will forgive me, sir; I will take as little room as I can, sir."

6. "Come this way, my friend," said the great Crown-piece, kindly; "you are only a penny, it is true, but then you do not pretend to be anything else, so we shall be happy to see you here as long as you choose to stay.'

"Thank you, my lord," said the Penny.

7. As for me, I began to wish the shopman would take me out again, for I had no one to speak to except my sister, the bad Florin. She whispered to me, "They need not be so high and mighty, for some of them are quite cracked, and sound as badly as we do when they are rung on the counter."

8. I had not long to wait, for in a few minutes the man put his hand into the drawer and took me out, with some other money.