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LITTLE ONES AT HOME. 135

Swallow and sparrow, lark and thrush,
Will tell you just the same:

To make us all so sorrowful,
It is a wicked shame.

Oh, did you hear the concert
This morning from our tree?
We give it every morning
Just as the clock strikes three.
We praise our great Creator,
Whose holy love we share:
Dear children, learn to praiso Him too,

For all his tender care.
Youth’s Ponny Gazette.

 

ANNA’S RESOLUTION.

Well, now I Il sit down, and 1’ll work very fast,
And try if I can’t be a good girl at last;

Tis better than being so sulky and haughty,
I'm really quite tired of being so naughty.

For as mamma says, when my business is done,
There’s plenty of time left to play and to run ;
But when ’t is my work-time, I ought to sit still ;
And I know that I ought, so I certainly will.

But for fear, after all, I should get at my play,
I will put little doll in the closet away ;