saw I
left it there, and he sat down upon it to keep it safe for me, showing
his teeth at anybody who offered to touch it. The servants got
frightened; they tried to beat him away, and they tried to coax him
away, but he wouldn't stir, and at last they thought he must be mad, and
told their mistress. She came and did all she could to coax the dog
away, for he was right in the way when they went out or in; but he
snarled at them all. He must have been pretty near starved, lying there
all Saturday night and Sunday, and I dare say he did get fiercer and
fiercer, so at last they got him shot.

"I've never had a dog along with me again. I don't suppose I shall ever
get one like Tinker. I always think of him when I take up this old
coat;" and Eli gave his donkey a cut with the whip, and I am not sure if
there was not something like a tear in his eye as he thought of his lost
Tinker. What did it matter that he was an ugly dog? He did his duty to
the end of his life, and which of us can do more?

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AMBITION.

I often wonder how Papa
Can like to go to Town,
And sit all day with pen in hand,
And write those figures down;

When he might take a boat and go
A-sailing on the stream
And with his rod and line and reel
Go fishing for the bream.

I think it must be that he likes
To take the train and ride
But I would travel round the world
And see the other side;

Find out where the Equator's drawn
And what the Poles can be,
And where the sun goes when he's
Beyond the shining sea.

F. Wyville Home.

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THE GOOD AND BAD FAIRIES.

Two houses stood side by side, as much alike as two twins. Honeysuckle
and sweetbrier climbed over the rustic porches, flowers bloomed gayly in
the gardens, and the warm sun shone equally on both. In each lived a
little girl who had an invisible fairy companion. The children were the
same size, the same age, and had the same advantages, with this
difference, that the one fairy was good and the other bad.

A ray of sunshine glides through the window into the first house, and
shines encouragingly on little Minnie, who is trying to do her lessons.

But the bad fairy has set her pygmies to work. One persuades her that
she will do her lessons better if she sits in an easy-chair, another
puts a cushion at her back, whi