"I was very sorry to have to send you away, Rollo."

Why, father, I was not more than an inch before

you."

"That is true," said his father.

"And I do not think I was in any danger."

"I do not think you were myself," said his father.

"Then why did you send me back?'

"For two reasons. First, you disobeyed me." "But I do not think I came before you more than an inch."

"Nor I," said his father; "very likely it was not more than half an inch."

"And was that enough to do any harm?"

"It was enough to constitute) (disobedience, I told you to keep back, outside of us, and, by coming up even as near as we were, you showed a (disposition) not to obey."

"But I forgot," said Rollo; "I did not observe) that I was so near."

"But when I give you a direction like that, it is your duty to observe."

Rollo was silent, After a short pause, he added, "Well, father, you said there were two reasons why you sent me away."

"Yes; the other was, that you were spoiling all the pleasure of the party. You kept Mary and mother continually uneasy and anxious."

"But I do not think I went into any danger."

'Perhaps not; that is not what I charge you with.

I did not send you away for going into danger, but for making other persons anxious and uneasy.”

"But, father, if there was not any danger, why need they be uneasy?"

"Do you suppose that persons are never made uneasy and anxious except by actual danger?" "Why, I do not know, sir."

"If you observe persons carefully, you will see that they are."

"Then they must be unreasonable," said Rollo. "Not altogether," said his father. "If you were lying down upon the ground, and I were to come up to you with an axe, and make believe cut your head off, it would make you very uneasy, though there would be really no danger."

But this is very different," said Rollo. "That would have been as if I had made believe push mother off."

"That would have been more like it, I confess. But I only meant to show you that it does not require real danger to make any one uneasy and anxious. When we see persons in situations which strongly suggest the idea of danger to our minds, it makes us uneasy, though we may know that there is no actual danger in the case.

"Thus it is painful to most persons to see a carpenter upon a lofty spire, or to go very near a precipice, or see any body else go, even when there is a strong railing; and so in all other cases.

Therefore our rule ought always to be, when we are in company with others, not only not to go into

actual danger, but not to go so near as strongly to bring up the idea to their minds, and thus distress them."

"I never thought of that before," said Rollo.

"No, I presume not. And I had not time to explain it to you when we were upon the cliffs, and so I simply directed you to keep back of us. That would have prevented all trouble, if you had only obeyed."

Rollo was silent and thoughtful. He was sorry that he had disobeyed.

"However," continued his father, "I am glad I have had this opportunity to explain this subject to you. Now, I want you to remember, after this, that the best way, in all such cases, is to consider, not what the actual danger is, but what the feelings and fears of those who are with you may be."

mpt as in tempt, attempt, exempt, prompt.

mpts as in tempts, attempts, exempts, prompts.

Note to Teachers. The letter r has two sounds--the smooth and the rough. The smooth sound, as heard in the words following the table, is often feebly sounded, and sometimes entirely suppressed. Thus we hear fawm for form; stawm for storm, &e.

Warm, (not wawm,) form, storm, arm, harm, alarm, car, bar, far, barge, large, for, horse, worse, forming, arming, alarming.

The Disappointment

"IT snows! it snows!" exclaimed little William, as he came running in from school one day: "what fine times we shall have now!"

"Why, what will you do, William?" said his mother, looking up from her work.

"O, we shall coast, and slide, and make snow-balls." "All that is very fine, to be sure," said his mother; "but how should you like to go to school to-morrow in a snow-storm?"

"I should admire it. I shall put on my new mittens, and tie my cap down under my chin. You know, mother, I have not had it tied down once this winter, because I wanted to be tough. Mother, when I was down to grandmother's, the other day, she told me a story about you."

"About me?"

Yes, mother she said that once, when you was a little girl, about as large as I am, you started to come from school without your mittens, and your fingers ached so with the cold that you could not help crying; and by and by, the schoolmaster came along, and said, 'What is the matter, little girl? Why do you not put on your mittens?' and you looked up, with the tears freezing on your cheeks, and said, 'I want to be tough.' Do you remember that, mother?"

"O yes," said his mother, laughing, "I remember it very well; and I recollect, too, that I asked him whether, if I cried, that would prevent my getting tough."

"And did he think it would, mother?"

"I do not know; he laughed, and said I had better put on my mittens, and try my experiment) when it was not quite so cold."

"Well, mother," said William, "I mean to see if I cannot go to school some cold day without my mittens, and not cry." His mother smiled at his brave resolution, but advised him to have his mittens in his pocket, in case his courage) should not hold out.

The snow fell fast, in beautiful large flakes, and William stood for some time at the window, watching them as they came down and lighted softly on every tree, and bush, and little twig. At length he ex

claimed, "O, how pretty it is!"

"What is it?" said little Sarah, who had been playing with her doll on the floor. She jumped up, got her little cricket, and came to the window to see what William was looking at. She watched the snowflakes for a minute or two, and then, looking up in her brother's face, said, "Are they (feathers,) William ?" The boy laughed, and looked at his mother, as much as to say, "She does not know every thing, does she?"

That night William went to bed full of the idea of the grand times he should have to-morrow; for it would be Saturday, and school would not keep all day. He lay awake a good while, thinking about the coasting and the snow-balling.