long that every thing must be done in a hurry. She will dress herself very neatly, and take care to wash herself quite clean, and brush her hair very smooth. When she is dressed, she will not forget to kneel down, and thank God for having taken care of her through the night, and ask him to keep her from evil through the day; after which, she will read a few verses in her Bible.

This little girl will then try to help her mother in some way or other. Perhaps she can dress her little brothers or sisters, or she can help to get breakfast ready, or do something useful. I will suppose she goes to school in the morning. When she has eaten her breakfast, she will get ready to go to school, for she never goes too late; and she takes care to carry her books and work with her and if she has any little sisters who go to school, she makes them ready, and takes them with her. She will not loiter on the way to school, but go straight on, that she may be there in time.

If you look at her books, you will find them all neat and clean; there are no dogs' ears, or scrawlings on the first page. She learns her lessons in good time, and is ready to say them when she is called to do so. Then she takes her work, and, if it is a shirt, she has all the different parts neatly pinned together, so that none of them are lost; she has, also, her thimble, scissors, and cotton; the very things which untidy girls always lose.

When school is over, the orderly girl is quite as ready for play as anybody; indeed, children can always play more merrily when they have done their work well than when they have been

idle. Order is of great use in play, as well as in work. The orderly child takes care of her playthings, and when they are wanted, she knows where to find them. If she has a doll, all its clothes are in neat order, and not dirty and ragged; if she has a skipping rope, or a ball, she puts it carefully by when she has done with it, and then she knows where to find it when she wants it.

neat too.

The orderly girl does not only take care of her playthings, she tries to keep her clothes You do not see her frock daubed over with grease, or her pinafore with only one string. She learns to mend her own clothes, and puts in a stitch whenever it is wanted; according to the old proverb, "A stitch in time saves nine:" so you never see her clothes almost falling off for want of strings and buttons. When she goes to bed at night, she folds her clothes neatly, and lays them ready for the morning.

There is one thing which she can never forget, and that is to pray to God, before she lies down to sleep, that he would forgive whatever she has done wrong through the day, and keep her safely during the night.

And now, when our imaginary little girl has gone to sleep, I should like to ask every girl who reads this lesson, if she cannot become like her. Only think what a comfort it would be to your mother, if you were so orderly and useful, as not only to take care of your own things, but to help her also: besides, how much happier you would be; for I believe that half of our troubles arise from carelessness, either from

losing things or forgetting to do our duty just at the right time. I am sure I do not wish girls to be little old women. I like to see them play, and run about, and look merry: but, then, they should remember that work, and a time to play. proper time.

WHAT is order?

there is a time to Everything in its

What does want of order make people?
Can children be orderly?

When will an orderly girl get up?

How will she dress herself?

What will she do when she is dressed?

How can she help her mother?

Where will she always go in time?

What does she take to school with her?

What do you see in her books?

If her work is in many parts, what does she do?
How can people be orderly in play?

What does an orderly girl do to her clothes?
Tell me the proverb about mending.
Whom can you help by being orderly?

FLOWERS.

HAVE you ever met with any one who is not fond of flowers? I have not. Very young children love to pull them as they smile so prettily in the hedges, or smell so sweetly in our gardens. Ladies like to have them in glasses of water in their drawing rooms, to see them growing in pots in their windows, and to have a great variety of them in their gardens. These

kinds of flowers require care. The gardener has to keep them clear of weeds, as well as to water them in dry weather.

There are other sorts of flowers, which no one seems to take care off. These are called wild flowers. The little white daisy, and the yellow buttercup, which grow in the fields amongst the grass, are wild flowers; and you must all remember a great many more, that I need not name. Now, why do these flowers come forth? Why is it, that when summer comes, the fields and lanes look so gay and beautiful, with the white daisy, the yellow buttercup, the pale primrose, and the purple violet? Is it only to please our eyes with their bright colours? or to delight us with their sweet smell? No; it is for more than this. God sends flowers to give food to the busy bee, the wasp, and other insects.

There is also another very important use of flowers which Jesus Christ has taught us. Many children are fond of dress, and gay colours; what does Jesus say to these? "Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." However smart and fine your clothes may be, you have only to look at the flowers of the field, and you will see how much more beautifully God has dressed them.

David, and Job also, compare the shortness of our life to that of a flower: "As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know

it no more." I have often been sorry to see my pretty flowers destroyed in a few hours by the rain and wind, the stems broken, and the leaves all scattered on the ground. And I will tell you what I have seen, also; I have seen young persons, as young as you, cut off like my poor flowers. A few days of sickness has taken the colour from their cheeks; kind friends have stood around their bed, and nursed them, and wept over them: but death has come, like the storm, and swept them away.

We ought to be fond of flowers; and I would advise every child, whose father has a garden, to beg for a corner for himself, where he can plant flowers, and watch them as they spring up, grow, and die. And when summer calls the flowers into the hedges and fields, I hope you will not trample them carelessly under your feet, but stop to look at them, and remember this lesson.

WHERE do flowers grow?

Why does God make them grow?
Do they convey any lesson to us?

What does Jesus Christ say to us about flowers?
What lesson may you learn from this?

To what do David and Job compare the shortness of life?

INSECTS.

INSECTS are small living creatures : some live in the water, some creep on plants and the ground, and some fly in the air. They were made by God on the sixth day, before he made