Go to the station-house," says he, him safe and sound." So to the station-house she ran, to see And when she saw him safe and soun for joy. And she thanked the kind Policeman boy was found, And she thanked the big Policeman safe and sound. Ex. 54. DO YOUR B Do your best, your ve Little boys and little girls, Whatever work comes to yo Still do your best, if but at sure you do it well. e who always does his best, s best will better grow; e who shirks or slights his task, lets the better go. if your lesson should be hard, u need not yield to sorrow; im who bravely works to-day s task grows light to-morrow. - BOYS' AND GIRLS' RIGHTS. -- every land and continent, Good people, bear in mind much is said about the rights men and womenkind; though we 're present everywhere, d make a deal of noise, e rights of girls and boys. -ant the right to use our eyes d take in every sight, e, compare, and measure facts, e length and breadth and height. -ant the right to use our tongues, d keep them busy, too, xing questions every day, d have them answered true. SELECTIONS IN POETRY. When we do wrong, we want the right A household jury, if you will," To sit upon our case, And not be punished for our faults We want to be respected, too, And not be snubbed outright, Ex. 56. THE BEGGAR BABY. PALE and weary, strangely old, Wan with hunger, numb with cold, Clothed in rags around it rolled, Careless travellers going by Walked around, lest, coming nigh, They might hear the hungry cry Rich men passed, and thought within, For a poor beggar baby. 63 Only the pauper mother smiled, But by and by that baby died, And they buried it (on the pauper's side Who used to cling to her lonely breast, But, lo! beyond the pauper tomb And then, in garments white and new, Ex. 57. -LINES FOR AN EXHIBITION.— Miss Priest. KIND friends and dear parents, we welcome you here, To our nice pleasant schoolroom and teachers so dear; We wish but to show you how much we have learned, And how to our lessons our hearts have been turned. But we hope you'll remember we all are quite young, For learning, we know, is more precic But the worth of the heart's jewel ne We'll strive, then, for virtue, truth, h And thus lay up treasures in mansion Our life is a school-time; and till tha With our Father in heaven for teache O, let us perform well each task that Till our time of probation is ended in TH Ex. 58. SIGNS OF R HE hollow winds begin to The soot falls down, the spanie |