DARKNESS AND LIGHT.

The darknefs and the light to Thee are both alike.

aateay AR away to the weft, on the borders
i RY: i of theSea, there lived a lady and gen-
Ae tleman in a beautiful old houfe built
TGA fomething like a caftle. They had
TK feveral children, nice little boys and
girls, who were far fonder of their Sea Caftle, as
they called it, than of a very pleafant houfe which
they had in a great town at fome diftance off.
Still they ufed to go and be very merry in the
Town Houfe in the winter time when the hail and
{now fell, and the winds blew fo cold that nobody
could bear to walk out by the wild fea fhore. |
But in fummer weather the cafe was quite al-
tered. Indeed, as foon as ever the fun began to
get a little power, and to warm the panes of glafs
in the nurfery windows of the Town Houfe, there
was a hue and cry among all the children to be off
to their Sea Caftle home, and many atime had Papa
and Mamma to fend them angrily out of the room,
becaufe they would do nothing but beg to “fet off
direGtly.” They were always “fure that the

  

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