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THE YOUTHS CABINET.

The Bishop and the Birds.

BISHOP, who had for his arms two
birds, with the motto, “ Are not
two sparrows sold for a farthing ?”
thus explained the matter to an

intimate friend :

Fifty or sixty years ago, a little boy re-
sided at a village near Dillengen, on the
banks of the Danube. His parents were
very poor, and almost as soon as the boy
could walk, he was sent into the woods
to pick up some sticks for fuel. When
he grew older, his father taught him to
pick the juniper-berries, and carry them

to a neighboring distiller, who wanted
them for making Hollands.

Day by day the poor boy went to his
task, and on his road he passed the open
windows of the village school, where he
saw the schoolmaster teaching a number
of boys of about the same age as him-
self. He looked at these boys with feel-
ings of envy, so earnestly did he long to
be among them. He was quite aware it
was in vain to ask his father to send him
to school, for he knew that his parents
had no money to pay the schoolmaster ;