Harriot was very fond of her old game of hunt the flipper; but what was fhe to do with the flipper by herself; fhe could only fhove it from hand to hand. It was in vain to hope for fuch fervice from her fifters, as each was amufing herfelf in her affigned corner.

Amilia, who was a very skilful pretty housewife, was thinking how fhe might give her friends an entertainment, and of courfe fent out for many things to market; but there was at prefent nobody near, with whom fhe might confult on the occafion, for her fifters were amusing themfelves each in her corner.

Every attempt they made to find fome new amufement failed, and all fuppofed that a compromife would be most agreeable; but as matters were carried fo far, who was first to propofe it? This each would have confidered, as a humiliating circumftance; they therefore kept their diftance, and difdainfully continued in their folitude. The day at laft clofing, they returned to Madam D'Allone, and begged her to think of fome other amufement for them, than the ineffectual one they had tried.

"I am forry, my children, faid their governess to fee you all fo difcontented. I know but one way to make you happy, with which you yourselves were formerly acquainted, but which, it feems, you have

forgotten. Yet, if you wish once more to put it into practice, I can eafily bring it to your recollections." They all anfwered together, as though with one voice, that they heartily wifhed to recollect it, and flood attentive while their governess was looking at them, in eager expectation to hear what she had to fay.

"What you have loft, or at leaft forgotten, rereplied Madam D'Allone, is that mutual love and friendship which you once had for each other, and which every fifter ought cheerfully to cherish. O! my dearest little friends, how have you contrived to forget this, and thereby make me and yourselves miferable."

Having uttered thefe few words, which were in[terrupted by fighs, fhe ftopped fhort, while tears of tenderness ftole down her cheeks. The young ladies appeared much difconcerted, and ftruck dumb with forrow and confufion. Their governefs held out her arms, and they all at once instantly rushed towards her. They fincerely promifed that they would tenderly love each other for the future, and perfectly agree, as they formerly had done.

From this time no idle peevishness troubled their harmonious intercourfe; and instead of bickerings and difcontents among them; nothing was feen but

mutual condefcenfion, which delighted all who had the opportunity of being in their company. May this ferve as a ufeful leffen to my youthful readers, how eafy it is for them to promote or disturb their own happiness.

Perufe YOUNG LADIES, Madam, D'Allon's page And let its precepts your whole heart engage: Then fhall each charm and virtue of the fair, The fmile of kindnefs and the modeft air; The brow by wifdom polished and ferene, The glow of health and the decorous mein ; The eye, "that fpeaking fenfe diftinct and clear," Tells in its rays, what pleafure 'tis to hear; The tear of pity, that, like glistening dew, Impearls the opening rofe's crimson hue; The robe embrac'd by heav'nly Venus' zone, The flowing treffes that each art difown; Each charm of body, and each gift of mind, Which nature gave, or culture has refin'd.

MASTER

ASTER Gregory was fond of walking in a wood, which ftood at a fhort distance from his father's houfe. The wood being young, the trees were confequently fmall, and placed very near to each other, with two or three paths between them. As he was one day walking up and down, in order to reft himself a little, he placed his back against a tree whofe ftem was quite flender, and therefore all its branches fhook as foon as it was touched. This ruftling happened to frighten a little bird which fprung from a neighbouring bush, and flew into another part of the wood.

Gregory was vexed to think he had difturbed the bird, and fixed his eyes upon the bush, in hopes of feeing it return. While he was thus attentively on the watch, he imagined he faw among the twisted branches fomething like a tuft of hay. As his curiofity was raised to know what it was, he went up close to the hedge, and found this tuft of hay was hollow, like a bowl. On putting afide the branches, he faw fomething like little balls within it, which were spotted, and of an oval fhape. They lay clofe to each other, on fomething very foft. "Bless me, faid Gregory, this must be certainly what I have heard fome people call a bird's nest, and the balls must be eggs. They are indeed lefs than our eggs, but then our hens are larger than thefe birds."

He had fome thoughts, at firft, of taking away the whole neft; but upon fecond confideration, he contented himfelf with taking only one of the eggs, with which he inftantly ran home. In the midst of his hafte, he met his fifter. "See this little egg, faid he to her, I have just now found it in a neft in which were five others."

She defired to have it in her hand, examined it attentively, and then returned it to her brother. At laft they began rolling it up and down a table, just as they would a ball. One pushed it one way, and the other a different way, till at laft they push

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