LITTLE ONES AT HOME.

So thumb and finger went to work,
To move the stubborn lid ;

And as she gave it quite a jerk,
Much mischief then she did.

The snuff came puffing in her face
And eyes and nose and chin,

And as she ran about for ease,
The snuff got further in.

She dashed the spectacles away,
To wipe her tingling eyes;

And there in twenty bits they lay,
As grandmamma she spies.

She then, while smarting with the pain,
Sneezing, and sick and sore,

Made many a promise to refrain
From meddling any more.

Now, before I run to play,

I must not forget to pray

To Him who kept me through the night,
And woke me with the morning light.

Help me, Lord, to love thee more
Than I ever loved before ;

In my work and in my play,

Be thou with me through the day.