HOME AT THE HAVEN.

 she was going to begin a sampler, which Lucy did not
 at all see any necessity for doing, considering how
 neatly her mother marked everything with marking.
 ink. Lucy took the teazing very good-temperedly,
 however, we ought to observe, and was always so
 obliging, that she never on any occasion omitted doing
 any little thing for her uncle that she could; and her
 mother had only to say, Lucy, your uncle's slippers,"
 or "Lucy, your uncle's hat," before she was off as
 quick as lightning, to fetch them. She and her brother
 both tried to please their uncle, to whom they were so
 much obliged; but it was in different ways-Lucy with
 actions, perhaps, and Edward with words. Edward
 was too anxious to please his uncle in this way, and he
 was not long at the Haven before his mother began to
 fear that this might have a bad effect upon his charac-
 ter. This trying so much to please one person is rather
 a dangerous thing at all times, and is not nearly so
 snfe as trying to do and say what is right. Now,
 Captain Osborne could be rather sharp and severe
 when things did not go on quite smoothly, or when
 any one disobeyed his orders and wishes. Having
 been accustomed the greater part of his life to have
 the command of a large crew of sailors on board a ship,
 where nothing can be done except through the most
 strict obedience to the words of the captain, it was
 natural that he should be vexed and displeased if any
 one seemed for an instant to forget his orders. Ed-
 ward was exceedingly fearful of causing his uncle to
 express any such vexation; and yet at the same time
 he was by no means accustomed to be very punctual
 or particular, so that he very often had recourse to
 excuses to prevent his uncle from being angry with
him.
 "" Come, come Master Edward, I don't like being