d they can understand all
of the pieces. I read them the articles as a reward for good behavior
and well-learned lessons, and let them copy and work out the puzzles.

It would please you to see how anxiously they wait for each new issue,
and how happy they are when it comes. * * * Permit me to congratulate
you on the success your paper has achieved both here and abroad.

A TEACHER,
Buffalo, N. Y.

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HAVING A GOOD TIME.

"Having a good time," are you?
But, ah! what would mother say
If she knew of the two rogues rummaging
In her bureau drawer to-day?
"Mamma's gone out," is that it?
And nurse is "off duty" too?
And little mice, when the cat is away,
Find mischief enough to do.

Well, little golden-haired burglars,
What do you find for your pains?
Some garments folded so neatly away,
And mamma's jewel-case are your gains.
You look at the jewels before you
With innocent, joyous surprise;
But the jewels _I_ like are your own precious selves,
And like gems are your merry blue eyes.

But hark! I knew nurse would wonder
What mischief you two were about;
"When those children are quiet," I once heard her say,
"Some mischief I'm sure to find out."
Oh, dear little rogues, scamper quickly
Away from temptation and fun;
Leave the jewels and drawer, ere your fingers
Be guilty of harm yet undone.

THE PASHA PUZZLE.

Here are two British gun-boats sailing up the Bosporus to rescue British
subjects from brigands.

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Here are three sea-gulls sailing over the British gun-boats.

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Here are two Turkish cimeters to help the British gun-boats against the
brigands.

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Here are two Turkish bayonets to support the cimeters.

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Here is a British shell ready to burst.

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Here is a grim fortress on the banks of the Bosporus.

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Now how are you going to make Hobart Pasha out of all this?

THE STREETS OF CANTON.

They are very narrow and dirty, in the first place, with an average
width of from three to five feet. They are paved with long, narrow slabs
of stone. Their names are often both devotional and poetical. We saw
Peace Street, and the street of Benevolence and Love. Another, by some
violent wrench of the imagination, was called the street of Refreshing
Breezes. Some contented mind had given a name to the street