M. O yes, I have not been overworked, I assure you.

J. Then why have you not come and played with us, or stepped in and had a little talk with us.

M. Why, to tell you the truth Jane, you went off in such a hurry when we last talked together, that I had no great delight in such another conversation as we had then.

J. Why yes, I did set off then rather in a hurry, to be, sure, because you began to talk so gravely, and I can't bear to hear things talked about in that

manner.

M. Well, but we must talk of them in that manner, if we get upon those subjects. Why should we be afraid to give a right consideration to things that require it? I do'nt know any other way of getting the proper benefit from them.

J. Why, as to consideration, it is not my way besides, why need children consider, and think of matters in the same sort of way that old people do?

M. Why, to be sure, children are not able to think of matters with the

same sense and judgment that grown up people can, because they have not had the same experience; and, for that reason, we should be glad to listen to the advice which older people give us but yet there are some things that we are able enough to judge of, although we are but young.

J. What sort of things?

M. Why such as we were talking about when you did not like to listen. It seems to me only common sense to think that the books that we read in, have a meaning in them, and if there be any good advice in them, it is our duty to be attentive to it, and to believe that it will be for our good. J. Well, and what of that?

M. Why, we read the Bible, and there we learn a great deal that is good. It must be our duty to try to act according to it. Then we are taught to pray, and to beg for God's help to enable us to live like Christians, and when we have done wrong, we are taught to beg of God to pardon us, for Christ's sake; and we read, in his word, that he will do so, if we try to serve him for the time to come. Now all these things have a meaning.

J. O yes, I don't deny it.

M. Then, to be sure, we ought to act accordingly. And I think we learn, too, that it is very wrong to waste our time. You know the parable of "the talents," we often read it in the school. We have all some talent committed to our care, and we must one day give an account of it. Now, I consider, that, if we have time and opportunities of improvement committed to our charge, it is a very great sin to lose our time and our opportunities, for this is, in truth, wasting the talent which is committed to our trust.

J. Good bye Mary, I have had quite enough for the present.

(To be continued.)

All the pleasures of the whole world, and in all its duration, cannot make recompense for one hour's torment in hell. Bishop Taylor.

To be little in our own eyes, is to be great in God's.-The same.

Few things can cross him, who is disposed to take every thing well.—-Dr. Barrow.

THESE creatures were formerly very common in England, and were so fierce and destructive, that the former kings of England gave great rewards to those who would produce a large number of wolves' heads; and thus, in time, the whole race was destroyed. They are to be found in most of the temperate and cold parts of the world.

Sometimes whole droves of wolves will attack a sheepfold; they dig away the earth under the door, and enter with dreadful violence, not contented whilst they have left any thing alive.

The wolf, however, seems to be naturally a coward, and would rather attack sheep and rein-deer, and such gentle creatures, than more fierce and powerful animals. When, however, he is hungry he is so furious that nothing seems capable of checking him. Like most cowards, too, he is cunning; and like most thieves he is always suspecting that some plot is laid for him. If he find a rein-deer tied to a post to be milked, he fancies that it is put there to entrap him; but if the deer be set at liberty, he will pursue and devour it. The wolf has great strength, especially in the muscles of his neck and jaws he can carry a sheep in his mouth, and without difficulty can run off with it. His sense of smelling is particularly quick, and by this he pursues his prey with great perseverance.

Notwithstanding the savage disposition of these creatures, they can easily be tamed, if taken when young. It is said, however, that their natural fierceness begins to appear when they are about two years old. M. Buffon brought up several wolves; he states that during the first year they were