cou-rage, al-though we must ad-mit that his charg-er is not like-ly to swerve from the course which he wish-es him to keep, nor, though go-ing at full gal-lop, is there any dan-ger of his be-ing thrown or run a-way with by the do-cile crea-ture on which he is mount-ed.

THE POOR BLACK.

In some parts of the world, where the sun is ve-ry hot, the skins of the peo-ple, in-stead of be-ing white, like ours, are quite black; these folks are call-ed ne-groes. Some wick-ed men take them from their homes, and make them slaves and ill-treat them; and ma-ny sil-ly chil-dren are a-fraid of them, be-cause they seem ugly. I am glad to see that our young friends have been taught bet-ter. They are look-ing with pi-ty at the poor black man, and the lit-tle one is giv-ing him some re-lief. They know that God made all men of all col-ours, and that we are all e-qual be-fore him.

THE NEW SHOES.

Yes, baby is smart in-deed now. How proud she is of her new shoes, and how ea-ger she is to put out her lit-tle feet to shew them to her bro-ther and sis-ter, who seem scarce-ly less pleas-ed than her-self. Her ma-ma too looks with de-light up-on the plea-sure her ba-by feels, and for-gets all the trou-ble she her-self has had. I do not know how chil-dren can be grate-ful e-nough to their kind parents who thus pro-vide for all their wants and plea-sures in their help-less age.

THE BRO-KEN DOLL.

Here is a sad piece of mis-chief, and, if I am right in my guess, Mad-am Puss, by the man-ner in which she is scud-ding out of the room is the au-thor of it. I sus-pect that, while the doll was ly-ing upon the stool, the cat be-gan to play with its long clothes, till she pull-ed it down on the floor, where it got broken as we see. Care might have spar-ed this loss. If the lit-tle girl, be-fore go-ing to her mu-sic, had put the doll in a high place out of puss's reach, all would have been safe.

CLE-VER CHARLES AND STEA-DY JANE.

This is a sight worth look-ing at. No one i-dle but all mak-ing some good use of their time. Ma-ma is sett-ing a good pat-tern. She is bu-sy in read-ing while lit-tle Jane is work-ing close-ly at her needle, and her el-der bro-ther Charles is tak-ing on the Globe the mea-sure of the dis-tance be-tween two pla-ces. Their ma-ma must feel much plea-sure in see-ing her chil-dren em-ploy them-selves so well, and af-ter their work is o-ver,