Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-26

BY ALFRED TENNYsoN.

Pray for my soul More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams Of. Wherefore let thy voice
Rise like fountain for night and day.
For what better than sheep or goats
That nourish blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer
Both for themselves and those that call them friends'
For the whole round earth is every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
BOARDING AND ENJoYINa-An ANegory.
" A venerable old man toiled through the bur
den and heat of the day, in eultivating his
field with his own hand, and in strewing
with his own hand the promising seeds into
the fruitful lap of the yielding earth. Sud-
denly there stood before him, under the shade
of huge linden tree, divine vision. The
old man was struck with amazement. am
Solomon, spoke the phantom, H. friendly
voice; what are you doing here, old man ?
If you are Solomon, replied the venerable
laborer, how can you ask this In my youth
you sent me to the ant; l saw its occupation,
and learned from that insect to be industrious,
and to gather. What L then learned L am
following out to this hour you only learned
half your lesson resumed the spirit Go
again to the ant, and learn from that insect to
rest in the winter Of your life, and to enjoy
what you have gathered F"
WORTHY OF IMITATIoN.-Not long since,
we were conversing with a prominent teacher,
and sought to detain him a little longer than
his business seemed to warrant. II cannot
stop now, said he, " | must be at my school
room" Are you always thus prompt e
we inquired. " Yes said he, "and that is
the best way know Of to teach my pupils to
be always i'll time. have not been minute
behind the time of commencing my school in
two years and, during the six years have
been a.. te 5S, r5r R4hss SCHOOL roo by being
late" As he left us, we thought we had dis
covered one reason, at least, why our friend
was a successful teacher.
The CAT AND CANARY.-A lady had pref
ty canary bird, which was SO tame that she
allowed it to leave its cage and fly at large in
| her apartment. She had likewise fine large
| cat, which she had trained to treat her bird
| with gentleness, so that they were very good
friends.
One morning the bird was hopping about
the rooml picking crumbs from the carpet as
usual, when the cat which was asleep on the
rug, suddenly sprang up, and seizing the bird
in her mouth, jumped with it upon the table.
The lady was alarmed for the life of her ia
vorite bird, and starting from her seat was
about to visit her displeasure upon poor pussy
when she discovered the occasion of the cats
unusual behavior.
The door had been left open and a strange
cat had just crept into the room, intent to
make the little bird Its prey had not the
friendly puss SO seasonably rescued her. The
lady Immediately turned out the intruder,
when her own cat leaped off the table and re-
leased her atfrghted captive without doing it
the slightest injury.
1t was the nature of this friendly puss to
destroy every bird within her reach but in
respect to canary, she had learned self-con-
troll. And cannot child overcome his nat
ural tendency to sefishness, anger, or any
other faults 1t can be done, little friends.--
VIII you try? The Saviour is ready to help
you to do this. 1t will make you lovely.in the
sight Of all, and well pleasing to Him who
loved you and gave Himself to you.-Child's
Paper.
A CAT EXTRAORDINARILY gentleman iv-
ing at Elk Run, in the lower end of Fauquier
county, Va, has the good fortune to possess
the most remarkable grimalkin yet known of
the cat kind. Its body is of unusual length,
its legs like those of bench-legged fse. The
fur is of a reddish color, the whole beautiied
with black spots and streaks of different fig
ures; they are long in the back and round on
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