HALCYON DAYS.

 nurse told me once that every thing was made for the
 use of man."
 "They can't be of use," replied Louisa, petulantly,
 and how can everything be made for us ? are spiders,
 and flies, and all those nasty insects ? everybody kills
 them whenever they can catch them."
 Not every one, I am glad to say," remarked Miss
Forster, who had been silently listening, only the
ignorant and the silly. The living things we think
disagreeable, were nevertheless made to be happy, and
when we destroy them, we destroy creatures upon
which the Creator looks down with as loving an eye as
upon ourselves 1"
 "I After all," said Louisa that night while she and
her sister were being undressed, "Miss Forster is not
so very disagreeable."
 I shall love her, I'm sure," replied Minnie, she
speaks so kindly-and even when she reproves she is
not cross 1 I shall try to please her, Loo."





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