of time for dressing and for their prayers before breakfast; and they breakfast at eight o'clock.

Then they set to work at their studies. For one hour they study Latin and Greek; for another hour they study French and German, or other modern languages; then they work at music and drawing; and then comes dinner at two o'clock.

After this they assemble in the ridingschool and learn how to ride; and the young princes are also trained in military exercises. They also have a lathe, where they learn turning; and a laboratory, where they learn chemistry; and carpenter's tools; and small percussion guns; and bows and arrows to shoot birds in the royal gardens.

Our good Queen takes great care of these little princes and princesses, that they may be brought up well, and may turn out good and useful when they grow up. We also should pray that God would bless them. When they grow up they may be of very great importance in our country; and if they are good and fear and love God, they may do a great deal of good for us. Dear children, in your prayers every day do not forget them.

BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU
HAVE.

THE sun was shining out of doors, and the bright fire was burning in the parlour, when Mrs. Green and her son began to take their morning meal.

"Is this all we are going to have for breakfast?" said James, as he seated himself at the table.

66

"Yes," said his mother, "the bread and butter are fresh, and the potatoes are baked very nicely; many poor children would be very thankful for them, this cold morning."

James said nothing more, but began to eat very slowly, and rather sullenly. He knew that he must eat what was set before him, or go without food till dinner.

"Mrs. Green!" said a woman, running into the room, "Mrs. Johnson's two little girls are in the kitchen; they are almost frozen, and are very hungry; they have not had anything to eat since yesterday. Have you got anything you could give

them?

"Poor little things!" said Mrs. Green, "I will come out and see them. James, you may come with me, and see if they will eat what you are so strongly inclined to refuse."

James hung down his head and followed his mother into the kitchen.

Mrs. Green gave the little girls some bread and butter, and some baked potatoes, which they ate with an appetite which showed they told the truth when they said they were very hungry.

Oh, how nice," said the youngest, a little girl, six years of age; "how I do wish mother was here."

Mrs. Green gave them a number of good

things suitable for their poor widowed mother in her poverty, and they left the house very happy.

As Mrs. Green returned to the breakfast-room, James put his arms round his mother's neck, and bursting into tears, said, Mother, I will never complain again."

66

THOUGHTS ON HEAVEN.

I love to think of pleasant meads,
Beside a gentle river,
Where His redeemed, Jesus leads,
For ever and for ever.

I love to image to my sight
That countless congregation,
Where angel-voices, day and night,
Are singing of salvation.

The jasper walls, the pearly gates,
The golden streets of Heaven,-
The harp, the palm, the bliss that waits
Upon the sin forgiven.

My heart is fain to join that band,
And the song that no man knoweth ;
To follow, through the sinless land,
The Lamb, where'er He goeth.

Then welcome Death, thou hast no sting,
Nor earth the power to harm,

For o'er me is my Father's wing,
And underneath His arm.

TEXTS TO FIND AND QUESTIONS TO

ANSWER.

27. "To whom will ye liken God?"
28. Who fed David, when he was hun-
gry and thirsty in the wilderness,
fleeing away from Absalom ?

29. "Thou hast destroyed thyself, but in
Me is thine help."

30. What king was struck with leprosy
at the incense-altar, and why?
31. "Rejoice, because your names are
written in heaven?"

32. Who said to Jeremiah, "Thou shalt
surely die?"

33. "What shall I do, Lord?"

34. Who was cured of a bad disease by touching our Lord's garment?

ANSWERS TO TEXTS AND QUESTIONS FOR LAST MONTH.

(19.) Prov. x. 17. (20.) Ahaziah: 2 Kings i. 4. (21.) Matt. xxiii. 8. (22.) Because of the prophecy John xix. 33, 36. (23.) Ps. cxxxiii. 1. (24.) Cedar: 2 Chron. ii. 1-8. (25.) 1 Cor. xvi. 14. (26.) Shebna: Isaiah xxii. 15, 16.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All Communications and Articles for insertion to be addressed to the Editor, at Messrs. SEELEYS, 54, Fleet-street; or, which is more direct, to the Rev. C. CARUS WILSON, Thanet-house, Ramsgate.

Bound volumes of the CHILDREN'S FRIEND and FRIENDLY VISITOR for last year, suitable for School Prizes and Village Libraries, to be had of the Publishers, through all booksellers, price 1s. 6d. each.

LITTLE BILL AT THE PUMP.

A good pastor thought it to be both his privilege and his duty to superintend the Sunday-school connected with his own congregation. He always endeavoured to make

F