the hole at which the in-sects were fly-ing in

and out.

But they soon had cause to be sor-ry for what they had done; for the wasps came out in great swarms; flew at the boys, and stung them on the face and hands, which caus-ed them to move off quick-ly.

When the lads came home, ho-ney and ointment were u-sed to their fa-ces, which were much swol-len, and they were then put to bed; the next morn-ing they could scarce-ly see out of their eyes; and it was e-ven some days be-fore they were quite well a-gain: from that time not one of them would go near a wasp's nest.

When you have eat-en your break-fast, you shall take a walk with me in-to the or-chard to see the ap-ple and cher-ry trees in blos-som: on our way we shall pass a chest-nut grove and a fine field of clo-ver: we will then go a-cross the com-mon and vi-sit the col-lege on our way home.

Ci-der is a li-quor made from the juice of ap-ples, and is sent in hogs-heads to Lon-don from Dev-on, and oth-er coun-ties in England. Per-ry is made from pears; and mead from ho-ney and wa-ter: the two lat-ter are not of great va-lue in com-merce, be-ing now but lit-tle u-sed.

Cop-per is found in ma-ny parts of Eu-rope, but chief-ly in Wales and Swe-den: sil-ver is brought from Pe-ru and oth-er pla-ces: gold is dug out of mines; it is some-times found in the sand of the ri-vers in A-sia, and at the pres-ent time, in a great ma-ny parts of the world: i-ron is a ve-ry use-ful me-tal; it a-bounds in Eu-rope: steel is i-ron made hard tin and lead are brought chief-ly from Corn-wall.

The tree from which we ob-tain cot-ton grows in the East and West In-dies, and in ma-ny pla-ces in the Le-vant: the soft dow-ny substance call-ed cot-ton, sur-rounds the seeds, and is found in-side a pod which is a-bout the size of an ap-ple: it is of great va-lue in com-merce, and

it u-sed to fur-nish la-bour for more than nine hun-dred thou-sand per-sons, male and fe-male, in Eng-land a-lone.

There were two broth-ers who used to go in-to the riv-er to bathe with-out the know-ledge of their parents; al-though they had been told not to do so. One day the young-er of them was drown-ed, and this had such an ef-fect up-on their fath-er and moth-er that they both died with-in a few months of each oth-er of a bro-ken heart.

The boy who was now left an or-phan in the world, was ta-ken charge of by an un-cle, a ve-ry aus-tere man; and the harsh treat-ment he now met with, ad-ded to his form-er loss-es, which he knew had been caus-ed, in a great mea-sure, by his own heed-less and wick-ed con-duct, so prey-ed up-on his mind, that he was thrown in-to a de-cline, which soon end-ed in his death.

Thus we see, that, in a short space of time,