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beautiful buildings called the Houses of Parliament, where the laws are made. On the other side of the river you will find Lambeth Palace, the house of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the West End there are also fine large parks, where people walk, drive, and ride. In the North-west there is also a park, in which is a big garden full of wild beasts, called the Zoological Gardens.

The next largest town in England is Manchester, where the cotton is spun that is made into calico for your frocks and shirts, and there some of it is printed also. We send these manufactures to all parts of the world, as we can sell these cottons more cheaply than other people can make them.

Not far from Manchester, on the bank of the river Mersey, is Liverpool, where the ships that come from America generally arrive. They bring cotton, which is spun in Manchester. From Liverpool most of the emigrants go, who leave England to find work in other countries. On the coast of Yorkshire, you will find Hull, a large sea-port town on the edge of the river Humber. On the south-west coast of England you will find Bristol, where ships go and come from every part of the world.

On the south coast look for Portsmouth and Plymouth. At both places are bays or harbours, where, in a storm, ships are safe, and there many of our vessels are built. You will find many of these harbours or bays on the coast of England and Wales. When you are sailing your little boats on a pond in a high wind, they are easily overturned unless you

can draw them near the edge, where the water runs into the land, and is sheltered from the storm. So, on the sea, it is a great safeguard to be able to get into a bay, till the wind goes down.

sea.

You remember that, as in some places the sea runs into the land, so in others the land runs into the There are many of these capes in England. Flamborough Head in Yorkshire, Beachy Head in Sussex, and the Lizard Point in Cornwall will show you what is meant. The Land's End in Cornwall has an inn, on which is written on one side, "The last house in England;" on the other, "The first house in England." Both are true, according to whether the traveller is going or coming.

There are a great many islands belonging to England. The Isle of Wight, opposite Portsmouth, is warm and sheltered, and many sick people go there.

Now find the Channel Islands-Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark.

The best pears come from Jersey, as any greengrocer will tell you.

Alderney is famous for cows that give such rich milk it is almost like cream.

Sark is little more than a barren rock.

The Isle of Man is famous for those herrings which, when salted, you all like so much to eat with potatoes.

Well, now we will take a journey from London to the North of England.

Suppose your father keeps a draper's shop in London, and thinks he could buy cloth cheaper in

Yorkshire, where it is made, than he could in London, and sends you off by the Great Northern Railway to Leeds, let us see how you would go. First, from King's Cross station, through Hertfordshire -a pretty county, full of fruit-trees and cornfields.

Next comes Bedfordshire, and more corn-fields, in which grows the straw that makes your hats, and where little children of five years old are made to plait eight or ten hours every day, and have no time for a game of play; and then you pass through Huntingdonshire, so called because it was famous for hunting, but now it is full of paper makers. Next you will reach the flat, damp, ugly county of Lincolnshire; you cross a little bit of Nottinghamshire-the county where most of your stockings are made,—and at last arrive in Yorkshire; and, long before you reach Leeds, you will see the smoke of all its furnaces and manufactories.

You will go to the cloth halls, where are enormous quantities of tweeds and broadcloths and velveteens, quite enough to dress all English boys for years. Now you must make the best bargain you can for your father. Take care not to buy shoddy, or he will be very cross with you.

Shoddy is made of old clothes pulled to pieces, the threads taken out, rewoven and dyed, and made to look thick and warm by flour and whitening put into it. shoddy, like all make-believes, wears very badly. I hope you would buy your goods wisely and well, for your journey would cost a great deal.

But

Leeds is 200 miles from London. The parliamentary, which is the cheapest train, is a penny a mile:-What would it cost you to go from London to Leeds and back again?

When you have rested yourselves, and are ready for another excursion, we will see what is to be seen in the south of England, and travel to the Land's End in Cornwall.

Look out on the left soon after you leave London, and you will see Windsor Castle, where the Queen lives; and close to it is Eton School, where many of the nobility and richest families of England send their boys, and where they get knocked about, and have to rough it, in a way which would make many of you cry. And if you should chance to meet any of the Queen's children or grandchildren, you would hear them speak so gently and kindly to each other, as would give you a lesson not to talk so rudely and roughly as you often do.

Next you enter Wiltshire, where is Salisbury Plain. Perhaps you have read a story about a shepherd there. That story was written by a lady of Somersetshire, the next county you will enter. She lived eighty years ago, when no poor people were taught to read or write. She thought this was a pity, and set about teaching them in many Somersetshire villages; but the people set dogs at her and her sister, and threw stones at them. No wonder! for they had not been taught better, but were just like savages. At last she succeeded, but could only get a barn for a schoolroom, and sacks of hay made the seats. But at last the children were eager to

learn, and played truant less seldom than some of you. This lady lived near Bristol; her name was Hannah More.

Next you will come to Devonshire-a lovely county, and so warm, that plants, which require a hothouse in other parts of England, grow like weeds. And the grass is so good, that the cows give capital milk, which makes that good stuff called Devonshire cream; much of which, however nice it is, would make you very sick.

Next you will reach Cornwall, full of mines and miners; and having arrived at the inn at the Land's End, if you want to make any more journeys in England, you must find the way for yourselves.

WALES.

WALES is a pretty little country, like England's baby brother. It was conquered long ago by a king of England, who promised the people that they should have a prince to govern them who could not speak a word of English. He then told them his own son, a baby, who could not speak any language at all, should be their prince. Since that time the eldest son of the King of England has been called the Prince of Wales.

Wales is very mountainous, and numbers of little sheep graze on the green hills. Welsh mutton is famous.

Some of the Welsh can speak English; but not all of them. The clergymen have, in some places,

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