Year: 1869




Charlie, come in, / want you, said a
sweet womanly voice to little boy who was
playing marbles on the side walk In front Of
nice brick house.


Now Charlie was very busy, and in the
midst Of delightful game He was as hap
py as could be- To quit his play then was
ike quitting the table when half through
dinner. Would he obey. We looked with
interest to see what he would do. What
would you have done


Charlie replied, yes, mother and pick
ing up his marbles, started of with smil-
ing face and a bounding step up the side
yard, and 10 at the end door of the house
4 fine boy that, | thought, as / looked after
him. wonder who he is? What beau
tiful thing it must be to have little boy or
girl that will mind at once, and with hap
py loving hearth wondered what would
become of that boy. and wished to see more
Of him aud learn his history.


used 10 walk past that house every
week, and always thought of that blue-eyed,
light-haired boy The thought of him made
me happy. saw great many naughty
children, Once I spent two or three days
IN trying to end naughty boy who ran
away from his. home, and overwhelmed his
parents with grief; and when | found him,
some one had stolen his coat and hat, and
bundle Of clothes, and all the money he had.
Once / chased after trusnt boy and girl
for several hours, and at last, late at night,
found them in the woods. vet through, cold,
and frightened almost to death They had
disobeyed their mother, and gone to play
instead Of going to school, and both Of them
were sick for several weeks in consequence
of their folly and exposure. A boy that
minds-he is jewel


had been in business year or two, and
in that time had had several boys but it
was next to impossible to find one that would
mind At last | was quite out of patience,
and determined that L would have no one
who could not bring the best recommends
ton, and stand the closest test. Several ap-
piled for the place. but no one suited me.
At last came a blue-eyed, faxen-haired
youth Of twelve years, with bright, honest
face. There was something engaging in his
aspect Had I seen him before What is
your name p


Charlie Warren, sir. live in Franklin
street. My father is a carpenter, but is lame
now, and cannot work, and | have got
mothers consent to go into store, if l can
find place.


The RoD AND LINE.-The passion for
angling is by no means limited to any class
of society The most eminent poets, paint
ers, philosophers, statesmen, and soldiers
have.be fond of the art Trajan loved
angling, and Nelson threw the fly with his
1 left hand after the Spanisrds had shattered
his right arm. Ovid, Boileau, Goldsmith,
R0ssini were anglers. DR.. Paley was pas
sionately fond of it, and in reply to the
! bishop Of Durham, as to when one of his
most important works was to be finished,
said, My lord, l shall work steadily at it
when the fy-fshing is over. Walter
Scott, infinitely susceptible to the beauties of
Nature, was delighted with angling, and
more than one passage in his works betrays
his prediction for the sport Walton has
justly styled the gentle art as ''the contem-
platiye mans recreation. We do not
think that angling should be classed With
acts Of cruelty, for fish and all cold -blooded
animals, and the act of hooking fish is
probably attended with less pain than we
imagine, as the cartilaginous part of the
mouth contains no apparent nerves. A
trout will often continue to pursue insects
after escaping from the hook, though he will
shun the artificial ones The pike will
seize the bait, even when the mouth is full
of broken hooks. Sharks are also remarka-
bly, insensible to pain.-F}om SALMON
FISHING" IN LlPpeacoHs Magaainc for
Hay.