LITTLE ONES AT HOME 187

“Twenty-four hours make a day,
Seven days will make a week ;
And while we all at marbles play,
Or run at cunning “hide and seek,”
Or in the garden gather flowers,
We'll tell the time that makes the hours.

In every month the weeks are four,
And twelve whole months will makea year ;
Now I must say it o’er and o’er,
Or else it never will be clear ;
So once again I will begin it: |
“Sixty seconds make a minute.”

 

LITTLE CHILDREN, LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

BY FANNY.

A little girl with a happy look,

Sat slowly reading a ponderous book

All bound with velvet, and edged with gold,

And its weight was more than the child could
hold ;

Yet dearly she loved to ponder it o’er,

And every day she prized it more ;

For it said—and she looked at her smiling
mother—

It said, “ Little children, love one another.”