In alphabetical order, the rivers of England having
names of one syllable stand thus: —

Aire, Alde, All, Alt, Aln, Alne, Arth, Ash, Aune,
Axe.

Bain, Barle, Beane, Beult, Binn, Blyth, Boldre,
Bourn, Braen, Brant, Brede, Brent, Bret, Brit, Brue,
Bure.

Cain, Cale, Calne, Cam, Carn, Char, Chess, Chilt,
Churn, Claw, Clist, Clun, Cole, Colne, Corve, Cound,
Cray, Crouch, Culm.

Dane, Dart, Daw, Dearne, Dee, Deer, Dene, Don,

Doon, Dour, Dove, Dunn.

Emme, Erme, Esk, Ex, Exe, Eye.

Fal, Forth, Foss, Frome.

Gade, Glen, Glyme, Griff, Gwash.

Ham, Hel, Heyl, Hix, Hull.

Tle, Irk, Irt, Ise, Ive.

Kent, Key, King.

Lark, Lan, Lea, Leach, Leam, Leen, Leeth, Lew,
Lill, Lon, Love, Ludd, Lugg, Lune, Lyd, Lyme,
Lynn.

Maize, Marske, Maun, Maw, Mease, Mite, Mint,
Moch, Mole, Mule, Muse.

Nar, Neath, Nene, Nent, Nidd, Now.

Ock, Ore, Ouse.

Pant, Plym, Pont, Pool.

Rains, Rase, Ray, Rea, Reed, Rhee, Rib, Rye.

Sark, Sense, Sheaf, Shreen, Sid, Skell, Skerne,
Smite, Soar, Sow, Stoke, Stort, Storn, Stour, Stroud,
Swale, Swift, Swill.

Taes, Taff, Tame, Tave, Tarve, Tay, Team, Tees,
Teign, Teme, Ter, Terme, Tern, Test, Teyse, Thame,
Thames, Thet, Thurn, Till, Tone. Torne, Tow, Trent,
Turch, Tweed, Tyne.

Ure, Usk.

Warfe, Wear, Went, Were, Wey, Wick, Wiske,
Wreak, Wye, Wyre.

Yare, Yealm, Yeo.

A quiet tune, generally soft and musical, is being
ever sung by all these lovely streams, as they flow on
their happy way. Could their voices be heard, blended
in one, what a sound of many waters it would be!
One at least hears all at once, and the song they sing
is His praise. Would we could all learn a lesson
from these sweet English streams and do likewise!

G.S. 0.

 

 

THE UNLUCKY SLIPPERS.
From the Italian of Gozzi's ‘ Oriental Tales.’

ee was once an old merchant of Bagdad,
named Abou Casen, who was famous for his
avarice. Although he was very rich, all the clothes
he wore were patched and mended in many places;
and his turban, made of coarse linen, was so greasy
and dirty that it was impossible to tell what its
original colour had been. But the most surprising
part of his costume, the things that deserved to be
the most noticed, were his slippers. The soles were
studded with large nails, the upper leather consisted of
a number of small pieces joined together, and for the
ten years that they had existed as slippers the most
ingenious cobblers of Bagdad had spent time and
skill in making the poor remnants hold together.
They had, therefore, become so heavy, that they grew
into a proverb; and whenever people wished to give an

 

idea of great weight, the slippers of Casen were
brought forward as a comparison.

market of the city, the purchase of a large amount of

It happened one °*
day, when Casen was passing through the public }

crystal was proposed to him, and as the offer was an -

advantageous one he at once closed with it.

Some days after, having heard that a ruined per- :

fumer’s last hope lay in the sale of a quantity of
rose-water, he took advantage of the poor man’s
misfortune and bought the rose-water at half its value.
These profitable transactions having put him into a

good humour, he thought it better, Instead of giving -.

a feast (as is the custom of Eastern merchants), to go

to the bath, where he had not been for a long time.
While he was undressing, one of his friends (or, at

least, a person believed by him to be such, for misers

rarely have friends) told him his slippers rendered ©

him the talk of the whole city, and that he himself
would, in the end, be obliged to give him another pair.

‘It is quite time that I should think about it,
answered Casen: ‘ but, after all, they are not so worn
that they cannot stillserve my purpose ;’ and so saying,
he finished undressing, and entered the bath. While
he was washing himself the Cadi of Bagdad also came
there to bathe. Then Casen, having made an end
of his ablutions, returned to the first room and put on

his garments; but vainly did he seek for his slippers. -

Instead of their being where he had left them, they
had got pushed away into some corner, and in their

place lay a pair of new ones. Whereupon our miser, |

quite believing that this was, what he would have
wished it to be, a gift from the person who had just
been admonishing him, put them on without more
ado, and, nearly beside himself with joy at being
spared the expense of buying others, he left the bath.

When the Cadi had finished bathing, his slaves

sought everywhere for their master’s slippers, but in
vain. They only succeeded in finding some filthy

ones, which were at once recognised: as Casen’s. ‘The

doorkeepers immediately ran after Casen, and he,
being deemed a thief, was taken as such, was led back
to the Cadi, and for this exchange of slippers sent to

prison. In order to escape out of the claws of justice |

he was obliged to open his purse pretty-widely, and
as he was held to be as rich a man as he was a
miserly one, you can easily believe he did not get off
very cheaply. The sorely afflicted Casen, on reaching
home, took his slippers, and flung them in a rage
into the Tigris, which flowed beneath his windows.
Some days after, when certain fishermen were

drawing up a net, they found it heavier than usual, |,
and lo! Casen’s slippers were init; and, moreover, had -

torn the meshes of the net with the nails that decked

the soles. The fishermen, furious both with the miser :

and his slippers, thought to throw them back to him
by his open window. And being thrown by a vigorous

arm, the slippers fell back among the vials of rose- ;

water ranged along his shelves, so that the vials were

all broken, and the miser’s recently purchased rose- .
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water was lost.

And now imagine if you can Casen’s grief at this, ,
loss; he began to pluck out his beard and ery aloud. |

‘O most fatal slippers!’ said-he, ‘ye shall do me no -

more harm;’ and he took a spade and dug a hole in
his garden, intending to bury them for ever.
Now one of his neighbours, who, for a very long

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