PERSEVERE AND PROSPER.

away a leaf, that he might look into the nest
better. Arthur was a kind-hearted, little
boy, and the poor bird’s distress made him
move away.

“T should like a nest and some eggs,”
thought he, “but I should not like to take
those poor little things from their mother ;
besides, they are under my window, and I
ought to prot&ct them.”

This was by no means good reasoning on
Arthur’s part, but he was only ten years of
age, and was not a clever boy, so that he
could not always know the reason which
prompted him to do a kind thing. But he

‘did not do the fewer kind things, on that
account.

As Fanny would not be ready before half
an hour, he took out of his box a favourite
hockey stick, and telling her he would wait
about the garden, till she came, he opened
the door which lead to the back stairs. He
soon made his way down these stairs, and
came to a door at the bottom, which seemed
to be fastened on the other side. He heard

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