HY UNOPENED PARCELS.

all the different sorts of learning and information
we are trying to pack into its chambers while
memory is young and vigorous, are by no means
so many modes of torture devised for the parti-
cular annoyance of children, but, on_the contrary,
so many ‘ unopened parcels, the contents of which
will one day be the delight of their possessors,
however little they may believe this till the time
comes when the strings are untied. When that
will be in any particular case no one can tell, as
no one can foresee the circumstances of his future
life. Some of the parcels may not be wanted for
years— others never—some directly—almost as
soon as stowed away. [french verbs, geography,
history—every one of these horrors may be wanted
and called out in turn: and all that parents can
do is to get as many such valuable parcels stowed
away in a child’s brain as the child can be per-
suaded to admit. Ah, Honor! some the children
are apt to think most useless and uninteresting of
all, because most difficult of comprehension, may
one day prove to them the greatest treasures of all
-——‘fountains of living waters,” continued my