A good name is better than great riches and good favor is above silver and gold.

-Prov. xxii. 1.

LANGUAGE LESSON.

(To the Teacher: Let the children read these sentences so as to speak of more than one. E.g., Do you see the baby in bed? Do you see the babies in bed?)

Rover licks the face of the baby. Helen loves to see the squirrel run up the branch.

The ox comes into the barn.

The mouth of the plant is in the root. Helen climbed the fence and got the apple.

THE PRETTIEST DOLL IN THE WORLD.

I once had a sweet little doll

The prettiest doll in the world;

Her cheeks were so red and so white,

And her hair was so prettily

curled!

But I lost my poor little doll
As I played in the fields one day ;

And I cried for her more than a

week,

But I never could find where she lay.

I found my poor little doll

As I played in the fields one day. They say she is terribly changed; For her paint is all washed away,

And her arm trodden off by the cows,

And her hair not the least bit curled:

Yet for old times' sake, she is still The prettiest doll in the world.

LANGUAGE LESSON.

(To the Teacher: Let the children tell the story in answers to these questions.)

What did I once have? (the prettiest doll in the world)

What was the color of her cheeks? (red and white)

How was her hair? (prettily curled)

Where did I lose my doll? (in the fields one day)

What did I do? (cried for more than a week)

When did I find my poor little doll again? (one day as I played in the fields)

Is she changed? (terribly)

How is she changed? (paint all washed away)

Is her arm changed? (trodden off by the cows)

Is her hair curled? (not the least bit)

Is she pretty still? (the prettiest doll in the world)

LESSON LXVII.

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GOD'S WALL.

Long ago, in a time of war, an old woman lived with her four grandchildren in a little village.

It was winter, and the weather was cold and stormy. The poor children were afraid that the soldiers would drive them out of their home.

Once, as night came on, they heard the noise of the guns. They knew that the soldiers were coming nearer and nearer.

She said, if they

The poor old grandmother was the only one not afraid. would pray to our would help them.

dear Lord, He

She read to the children a prayer out of an old prayer-book, in which were the words, "May God build a wall about us to keep us from all harm."

One of the children said it was too much to ask of God, as that was something He could not do.

"If God wished to build a wall He