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SEE-SAW. 171 wood, where he had grown up from the acorn days of his babyhood, and it broke his heart to be so insignificant now. Why have they not cut me into plank like the rest ?" continued he, angrily. "I might have led the see-saw myself then, as this fellow does, who leans so heavily on my back, without a thought that I am as good or better than himself. Why have they not given me the chance of enjoying myself like these others-up in the sky at one end, down on the ground at the other, full of energy and life ? The whole timber-yard, but myself, has a chance. Position and honour, as well as pleasure, are for everybody except me. But I am to stick in a corner merely for others to steady themselves upon -unthought of or despised, made a tool of-merely that.-Miserable me !" Now this groaning was so dreadful, it woke the large garden snail in the grass hard by, whose custom it was to come out from his haunt under the timber-yard wall every morning at sunrise, and crawl round and round the felled oak, to see the world come to life, leaving a slimy track behind