s busy with his pupils this afternoon, and is
reading something which they are writing out. Some of the words puzzle
little Joseph, and he does not know how to spell them. His tiny brother,
who sits at his side, is making straight strokes.

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THE SAW-PIT.

It is dinner-time, and the children have just brought their father's
dinner to the saw-pit, and are spreading a clean cloth for him on a large
log of wood.

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THE SLEDGE-CHAIR.

Harriet is giving her little sister a ride in a sledge-chair, and she has
got her mama's muff to put her hands in. The rude schoolboys are stopping
to quiz the funny chair, but Harriet does not mind their laugh, for she
knows her little sister will like the ride.

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OFF TO SEA.

Sidney has just bidden his friends good-bye, and is off for his first
voyage. He is so fond of the sea that nothing else would please him. His
ship is lying out there in the distance, and he is just going on board, as
the vessel sails to-morrow for China.

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"WANT ANYTHING TO-DAY?"

The poor old man is hobbling along from door to door, to see if he can
sell anything.

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DON'T BE AFRAID.

Amy has got a penny for the lad who has swept the path, but she is quite
afraid of him.

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SHOWING BABY THE PICTURES.

Mama is always ready to please her little baby girl in any way she can.
She has just got a nice picture-book, and is going to show baby the
pictures. Baby is so eager to see them that she has thrown aside her
little mug, and trumpet, and woolly lamb, in order to look at them. How
pleased she will be for mama to take her on her knee, and explain them to
her!

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"RATHER FEVERISH."

Master Edmund is lying on the sofa this morning unwell. They have sent for
the doctor, who is feeling his pulse, and looking at his tongue. The
doctor will send him some medicine presently, but he does not know that it
is all through eating too much of that currant tart yesterday.

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RINGING THE BELL.

Little May is but a dot of a child to walk down the street all by herself,
and ring the school bell. But she can do this quite safely, and does it
nearly every day. The bell is rather high up for her to reach it, but she
can just stretch her little fat fingers up to it, and pull it, and then
some one opens the door for her. She is very f