“CARROTS,”

You think, I dare say, that it must have
been very stupid and tiresome to have s¢0 little
variety, but / think you are in some ways mis-
taken. Children really read their books in those
days ; they put more of themselves into their
reading, so that, stupid as these quaint old
Stories might seem to you nowadays, they
never seemed so then. What was wanting
in them the children filled up out of their
own fresh hearts and fancies, and, however
often they read and re-read them, they always
found something new. They got to know the
characters in their favorite stories like real
friends, and would talk them over with their
companions, and compare their opinions about
them in a way that made each book as good
as, or better than, a dozen.

So there is something to be said for this

part of the anczen régime —if you do not un-

derstand what that means, you will some day

—after all.
The volume that Cecil Desart brought into

the nursery was called “ Faults Corrected ; or,”