Some have written books about the making of watches; others have spent years and years, in trying to make a very good one; and so, after improvements without number, we at last have the wonderful little box of wheels, which is so useful, that most Englishmen, and some Bengalees, always carry it in their pockets. Now in England men-are often led to take all this trouble, by the praise and rewards which they gain, when they have made a useful, or pleasant thing. In this country, it is different. You will not do many things, in new and better ways, even when you know how. You cry, Oh! our caste will be broken. We cannot do that, because our fathers did not do it. But remember, if you will not change, you cannot improve. In England too, any one may become a watch-maker, or a carpenter, or a weaver, or a worker at any trade that pleases him. When a child is very young, he knows that one day he will be obliged to work, and seeing many people at their work, if he prefer any sort of work to others, his father may put him to learn it; there is no caste to prevent. Thus many take a pleasure in their work, and they will surely do it well. Again, in England, there are not so many people, as in Bengal, who, doing nothing themselves, live on the labours of others. Some of the brahmins are now

beginning to see how much better it is to labour for themselves than to take the earnings of their neighbours, many of whom have little enough to satisfy their own wants. Those brahmins who do labour for themselves, and the young ones who intend to do so, deserve praise.

The English Divisions of Time.

Time is divided into years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

A

year

is the time that the earth takes to perIt is 365 days, which are divided into twelve months. A month is 31, 30, 29, or 28 days.

form one journey round the sun.

A week is seven days.

A day is the time in which the earth turns round. It is divided into twenty-four equal parts, called hours.

The names of the twelve months follow in their

The number of days in each month may be known from the following verse, which should be learned perfectly.

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November,

February hath twenty-eight alone,

And all the rest have thirty-one.

The year begins with the first of January, and ends with the thirty-first of December. The twenty-fifth of December, called Christmas-day, is the day on which Christ was born.

The divisions of the Day.

The day consists of the morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night. The morning is the time from the first appearance of light till twelve o'clock.

Noon is the time when the sun is highest in the heavens, which is exactly 12 o'clock.

The afternoon is the portion of time between noon and twilight.

The evening is the twilight, which in England is much longer than it is in this country.

The night is the portion of time from sunset to sunrise.

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Bengal and England.

Bengal, the country in which we live, is a very rich country; that is, the earth produces plenty of food, clothing, fuel, and other things, pleasant and useful, to men. But there are also many things, very useful, which are not produced in Bengal, because the people are not wise enough to make them. Many things too, which are made here, are not made so well as in other countries, especially the different countries of Europe. This is all owing to want of knowledge and skill. I think every Bengalee would be glad to drink out of vessels of glass, and in the wet and cold weather, to have windows of glass, if his neighbours or he could make these things. But as it costs so much to bring them out from England, few people can afford to buy them. The Bengalees have no ships, nor do they know how to make them. A knife, which is one of the most useful things a man can have, made in Bengal, is much dearer, and not half so good as one made in England. The Bengal cotton even, is sent to England, and made into cloth, because it can be made there so much cheaper, and better than in Bengal. I could mention a hundred other instances of the

same kind, but these will show you, how useful knowledge is in making us comfortable. If the people of this country, should learn from English books and Englishmen, the arts of making glass, and cloth, and other things, and at the same time, learn the true wisdom, which consists in loving and serving God, it is certain that they will become much more comfortable while they live, and be happy for ever when they die.

The Four Cardinal Points.

The four cardinal, or chief points, are called North, South, East, and West.

If we look towards the sun, exactly at 12 o'clock, we shall be looking towards the south. The North will be directly behind us. The West will be at our right hand. The East will be at our left.

The sun rises in the East, and sets in the West: that is, the earth turns from West to East.