PERSEVERE AND PROSPER.

desired, if it were ever’ so trifling a thing;
so, on the present occasion, Fanny sat
down on an ottoman at her mother’s feet,
and Arthur, with his.top in his hand, ready
strung, stood still by her chair to listen.
“TI have just had a letter from your uncle
Tom, and he is coming here to morrow.”

‘Hurrah! hurrah!” cried Arthur, flou-
rishing his top over ise head. ‘“That’s
capital news, mamma.”

“But that is not all, my bik What
do you think he is coming for.”

“For business, I suppose, mamma; and
to see you and papa. If I were uncle Tom,
and lived in such a beautiful place as Fair-
down, with woods and fields, and horses
and dogs, and so many other things, I would
not come into dirty noisy London, I know.”

“Think again, Arthur.—Is there nothing
else you would like to come to London for ?
No new and curious machines? No
_ Polytechnic Institution? No Panoramas
and Dioramas of foreign places? No lec-

tures to hear on chemistry and mechanics ¢
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