as is done in foot-ball. Notwithstanding the fact that the game is played on
horseback and seems so dangerous, but few accidents occur. This is due to
the superior skill and training of the players and horses.

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Ghe Old Grandfather's Corner.

NCE upon a time there was a very old man who lived with his
son and daughter-in-law. His eyes were dim, his knees tot-
tered under him when he walked, and he was very deaf. As
he sat at table, his hand shook so that he would often spill the
soup over the table-cloth, or on hisclothes, and sometimes even

he could not keep it in his mouth whenit got there. His son and daughter
were so annoyed to see his conduct at the table that at last they placeda chair
for him in a corner behind the screen, and gave him his meals in an earthen-
ware basin, quite away from the rest. He would often look sorrowfully at the
table, with tears in his eyes, but he did not complain.

One day, thinking sadly of the past,
the earthenware basin, which he could 2
scarcely hold in his trembling hands, fell to =
the floor and was broken. The young wife
scolded him well for being so careless, but <fyr
he did not reply, only sighed deeply. Then
she bought him a wooden bowl for a penny,
and gave him his meals in it.

Some days afterward his son and
daughter saw their little boy, who was
about four years old, sitting on the ground
and trying to fasten together some pieces
of wood.

“What are you making, my boy?”
asked his father.

“Tam making a little bowl for papa
and mamma to eat their food in when I
grow up,” he replied.

The husband and wife looked at each other without speaking for some
minutes. At last they began to shed tears, and went and brought their old
father back to the table, and from that day he always took his meals with them,
and was never again treated unkindly. ; ;