the gar-den? I wish to show you our fine tall a-loe in full bloom at the bot-tom of the gra-vel path near the ap-ple tree. One day, James took a walk by the side of the mill-stream, with his rod and line in hand, for he was go-ing to an-gle for roach and dace. He had not gone far when he met his aunt, who ask-ed him what he was going to do, and when he had told her, she said, that, if he would come with her, she would show him what would please him a great deal more than catch-ing fish. So James went with his aunt, who, when they had got home, gave him a nice mince pie and a glass of cur-rant wine; she then told him she had bought him a kite, and, that when the servant came in, he should go to the park and help him to fly it. James now gave his aunt ma-ny thanks, and felt more pleas-ed that he had met her, than if he had stood two or three hours by the side of the river, to catch the poor fish, and put them in pain with his sharp hook. You should al-ways do as you are bid-den, both by your pa-rents and teach-ers: be care-ful not to tell a false-hood: nev-er loi-ter a-bout the streets; nor play with bad boys: do not put flies, or any oth-er in-sects in pain, and as much as you can, pre-vent your play-mates from do-ing so. When you have a long les-son to re-peat, a bill to make out, or a hard sum to work, you should nev-er say you can-not do it; but set a-bout it at once with a will-ing mind, for that which a boy has once done, can a-gain be done by a boy. One day some boys went to a wood to seek for eggs and young birds: they had not got far on their way when they saw a wasp's nest; and one of the boys, more bent on mis-chief than the rest, got a stick and tri-ed to break the ground near |