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should we be, and how happy should we
make all around us! What a delightful
world this would become, if every one would
look about and do to his neighbour, as he
would wish his neighbour to do to him!

To show how pleasantly this rule would
work, let me tell you a story,—a true one:

The horse of a pious man happening to
stray into the road, his neighbour put him
into the pound. Meeting the owner soon
after, he told him what he had done; “and
if I catch him in the road again,” said he,
« J will do it again.”

“Neighbour,” replied the other, * not
long since I looked out of my, window in the
night, and saw your cattlerin my meadow,
and I drove them out and shut them intoyour
yard, and I will do tt again”? Struck with
the reply, the man liberated the horse from
the pound, and paid the charges himself.

And let me tell my little readers, if they
wish their playmates and companions to be
kind to them, théy can best secure their
object by being kind themselves. Kindness
begets kindness ; doing good to others is the
best way of doing good to ourselves.