THE RETURN FROM FISHING.

HIS poor man has been fishing. What a number of

whitings he has caught! His little children are yery
much pleased: little Jane is leaning over the basket to touch
the pretty fish; and Anne tries to count them as they slip
into i. Johnny, who is sitting on the boat, helped his
father to catch them. The children will have a nice supper
to-night. In the sea swim the great whale, and the cruel
shark, which can eat a man, and the silver herrings, and

the mackerel, and the tiny sprats.

 

AT PLAY ON THE SANDS.

Edith*‘has had great fun burying Mary and her doll in
the sand. Mary sat down with her back against a boat, and
put Dolly quite close to the sea, with a book open before her
to read, if she can. Then Edith and George covered them
both with sand up to their waists. Mary said it was just
like going to bed, but that she should want to get up soon.
Milly has been filling her bucket with shells; they are
the homes in which small fish have lived. Milly thinks she
should like to live in a shining shell, and float on the sea.