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interfere in the matter.

“ Never mind the squirrel,” replied Mr.
Hall; “he will take care of himself. I
presume he has nuts stowed away in
more than a dozen places.”

Howard’s anxiety for the squirrel was
thus removed. “Do you think, sir,” said
he to Mr. Hall, “that it would be right
to take them, if those were all he had ?”

“T don’t know exactly what to say to
that question. I suppose butternuts were
made for squirrels,as well as.men, and I
don’t know but the squirrels have the
best right to them of the two, I think
in that case I should let them alone. But
you need have no scruple in. taking all
you can find, for, they will never want a
tenth part of what they have laid up here
and there, where you will never get at
them.”

Still Howard did not like to have Ed-
win take all he found in the hole; and
when he was not observed, he took a
double handful from Edwin’s basket, and
placed them back in the hole, saying, as
he did so, “There, Bunny, there are some
of your nuts for you.”

Was. it right for Howard to do so?
He was right in desiring to have the
squirrel share in the bounties of Provi-
dence; but he had no right to take nuts
from. Edwin’s. basket without permission.
It may be said that kind feeling influenced
him, and therefore he was excusable. Not
so, His kind feelings did not authorize
him. to take, what belonged to Edwin,
But. it was a very small, matter. That is
true; but small matters are important
where morals are concerned, No kind-
ness of feeling, and no smallness of the
matter, can ever excuse us from doing
what is right.—Selected,

 

THE YOUTH’S CABINET.
said Howard, wishing that Mr. Hall would

Something about the Sulks.

uis is the name of a disease which

is not uncommon among children,

Though some grow up without

being much, afflicted with it, yet I

have seen a child so entirely under its in-

fluence, as to throw herself upon the floor,

kick over benches and chairs, and seem

ready to bite and devour everything in
her way.

Some children, from their habits and
circumstances, are much more likely to
have this. disease than others. Those
that generally have their own way about
everything, and’ whose, parents let them
play. in. the streets, or by the road-side,
when they please, and. with whom they
please—such children. are very much ex-
posed to have the sulks. I have seen
children suffering with it, however, who
had the kindest, parents and the happiest
home that children ever could have.

It generally comes. on when something
is said or done that we do not like. For
instance, Jane Barber came home from —
school the other day with a green apple,
which Susan Carp had: given her. Like
a good girl, she went. directly to. her mo-
ther with it, and by her mother was told
to throw it away. Jane began to cry,
“Why, mother, it won’t hurt, me; all the
girls eat them, and they are not hurt.”

“My dear,” said her mother, “I tell
you to throw it away, and you must do
it. I, am. the best judge what is) fit. for
you, to eat.”

Then came on a. fit of the sulks. » First
she threw out one of her elbows, and then
the other, and then both at once. Then
her shoulders began to twist, first one
way, then the other. Her head began to
go forward and backward with,a jerk, and