them to see him play a trick or two, this pos-ture is not
easy to him.

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THE ROCK-ING HORSE.

This is a fa-mous dash-ing steed, and he ap-pears to have a ve-ry
smart, ac-tive young ri-der. He has a firm and grace-ful seat, and
has his reins well in hand. He rides too with a great deal of
cou-rage, al-though we must ad-mit that his charg-er is not like-ly
to swerve from the course which he wish-es him to keep, nor, though
go-ing at full gal-lop, is there any dan-ger of his be-ing thrown
or run a-way with by the do-cile crea-ture on which he is
mount-ed.

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THE POOR BLACK.

In some parts of the world, where the sun is ve-ry hot, the skins
of the peo-ple, in-stead of be-ing white, like ours, are quite
black; these folks are call-ed ne-groes. Some wick-ed men take them
from their homes, and make them slaves and ill-treat them; and
ma-ny sil-ly chil-dren are a-fraid of them, be-cause they seem
ugly. I am glad to see that our young friends have been taught
bet-ter. They are look-ing with pi-ty at the poor black man, and
the lit-tle one is giv-ing him some re-lief. They know that God
made all men of all col-ours, and that we are all e-qual be-fore
him.

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THE NEW SHOES.

Yes, baby is smart in-deed now. How proud she is of her new shoes,
and how ea-ger she is to put out her lit-tle feet to shew them to
her bro-ther and sis-ter, who seem scarce-ly less pleas-ed than
her-self. Her ma-ma too looks with de-light up-on the plea-sure her
ba-by feels, and for-gets all the trou-ble she her-self has had. I
do not know how chil-dren can be grate-ful e-nough to their kind
parents who thus pro-vide for all their wants and plea-sures in
their help-less age.

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THE BRO-KEN DOLL.

Here is a sad piece of mis-chief, and, if I am right in my guess,
Mad-am Puss, by the man-ner in which she is scud-ding out of the
room is the au-thor of it. I sus-pect that, while the doll was
ly-ing upon the stool, the cat be-gan to play with its long
clothes, till she pull-ed it down on the floor, where it got broken
as we see. Care might have spar-ed this loss. If the lit-tle girl,
be-fore go-ing to her mu-sic, had put the doll in a high place out
of puss's reach, all would have been safe.

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CLE-VER CHARLES AND STEA-DY JANE.

This is a sight worth look-ing at. No one i-dle but all mak-ing
some good use of their time. Ma-ma is