very pretty things, and for the next copy I am giving you a little pigeon-house, on the top of a pole.

Begin by drawing the dotted vertical line, and be sure that you get it really upright before you go on.

Next draw the ground-line, and then the double line which forms the floor of the pigeon-house; and both these lines must be quite HOR-I-ZON-TAL. Then, if you look for a dotted line right across the front, you will see that the body of the house is an oblong, and the top a triangle-very much like the cottage you have drawn. Next, draw the lines for the sides of the post, on each side of the dotted upright. In doing these you must not forget that the pigeon-house is placed on the top of a high pole, so that Miss Pussy may not be able to make her breakfast off the nice little pigeons; but her sharp claws could catch hold on any rough parts so the workman would make the pole as straight and as smooth as he could. You must try, therefore, to make your lines firm and clear, so that your pole will look as if it had been very nicely planed.

When you have done this, you may draw the slanting or oblique pieces at the bottom called "struts," which serve to keep the pole upright; and also those at the top, which support the pigeon

house. Now it is time for you to draw the little windows through which the pigeons go in and out of their dwelling.

The sides of these are upright, and the bent line at the top of each is called a curve.

I told you that we should soon be drawing useful and pretty things, and I think you will say I am keeping my promise when I give you this copy. We will suppose the lamplighter has gone to light his lamp, and while he is away you shall draw the likeness of the lamp-post and ladder.

Firstly, draw the dotted vertical line A Balways get the leading lines on which a drawing is to be based done before you attempt the other parts-next draw the dotted line marked C D, which you will see is horizontal, and as this is to form the middle line of the bar against which the ladder is to rest, it must of course be quite level, or the ladder would slip off, and then what would become of poor Mr. Lamplighter?

Well, now you will draw the lamp and the post, and take great care that they must be the same width on each side of the dotted line, then finish the horizontal bar C D.

Let me remind you that drawing teaches us to be very exact in showing things. If you were

telling one of your friends about anything you had seen, you would, I am sure, be careful to speak the truth, and to tell him just what you saw, neither adding to it, nor leaving out any part. You must be just as exact in drawing, and therefore, you must try to observe things you meet with, and to notice all about them. You will very likely know then that a lamplighter's ladder is much slighter than other ladders, its sides being very much thinner in order to make it light, so that the man may be better able to carry it about. Then it is just the same width across the bottom as at the top, but builders' ladders are wider at the bottom, so that they may stand more firmly, being so much longer.

Now the lamplighter's ladder is not only the same width at the top and bottom, but all the way down, so that its sides are called Par-al-lel, because par-al-lel lines are such as are at the same distance apart all along, like the iron rails on a railway, and the blue lines in your copy-book, so that when you have drawn the oblique lines for the sides of the ladder, and are sure that they are parallel, you may draw the lines inside of them for the thickness of the wood, and these must be parallel too. And now for the steps: these must all be the same distance apart, and must be quite hori