Year: 1868

now who was the first woman?''


"Mrs. ADAM" says Totty after a min
ute's reflection; but mamma does moi
seem satisfied with the new reading, anc
Totty is set right npon the point. 1t wa:
this young lady, who, after years in
struction in scriptural knowledge, was one
day questioned concerning the history o.
Joseph and replied, that he was the chiei
butler of King Pharaoh, who was in pris
on with Jacobs younger son.


And now.' said the querist, 'whe
was the other man in prison with Joseph
and the chief butler ?


1t was evident that Totty did not know
for one shoulder forced itself out of con.
straining straps and then the other. Totty
looked at the floor and ceiling for infor-
nation, but found it not, and the question
was repeated.


Now, Totty, | told you just now. Who
was in the prison with Joseph and the
chief butler?'


Totty did not know, but she could in
vent; she would not give it up, and her
little face cleaned with triumph, as di-
rectly after the question was propounded
for the last time. Who was in prison with
Joseph and the chief butler?' she ex-
claimed:


The chief footman ?


I'm sorry to say that Bobby is not
honest. He it was who helped himself to
as many peapods as he could clutch when
passing the greengrocer's, and was bear
ing them off, only Mary perceived it in
time, and insisted upon his taking them
back, when the greengrocer was foolish
enough to laugh, and present the boy with
an apple ofred hue, which kept slipping out
of the fingers too small to hold it. Bob
by it is who makes the baby cry by taking
away its cakes and biscuits, to devour the
wet, sucked, soppy morsels himself. L
have my forebodings about Bobby, and
though it was, no doubt, intensely funny
to wet them and stick them on nose, chin,
cheeks and forehead, yet those postage
stamps all had to be gummed again before
[ could use them; and felt morally GER
tain that Bob was the-thief who stole the
little boxful from my study table, although
he sturdily denied it, and vowed that it
was Totty, who wept, and declared her in
nocence. He was caught in the act, Bob
by was, when he had been upon chair at
the cupboard, wofng the moist sugar, and
stood confessed before his mother, with
the brown crystals embellishing his checks.


'Ah Bobby, Bobby, you bad boy ex-
claimed mamma, what have you been
doing?


Missing! quoth Bob. sturdily.


You naughty-naughty boy said
mamma why, what did you do with the
sugar basin p


Took poon out, said Bob, gruffiy.
4 | know YOU did sir, said mamma an
grily :; but what else did you do, eh, sir p
/ There was pause for few moments,
and then mamma repeated her question.
What else did you do with the spoon,
Bobby?'


Put the poon in my mouf, of course
replied the boy curtly with an air of in
jured innocence.


l eorry to have to record that Bob
by was not punished for the saccharine
theft, for mamma turned away and laughed
while when reprimanded for her unmatern-
al behavior, and reminded of the boy in
the horn book, who afterwards bit off his
mothers ear because she had not corrected
him for theft, she, that is to say, Bobby's
mother, not the thiefs declared that the
story was all stuff and that the boy
! Bobby-looked so sticky and comical she
could not help it. That is how boys are
spoiled and the longer | live, the more |
! feel convinced that mothers should have
hand in their education


| We have had SO many little fresh green
queries-so much salad of a piquant flavor
that one has thrust the other from
memory. One mite wants to know why
+ ~ Joll ho,
another like little astronomer with wide
ly propping legs, gazing up into the blue
vault of heaven, and when asked at what
he is looking, says he, it's wonderful how
God could get up there Again, another
toddles into our country, red bricked
kitchen, whose floor is as great source of
pleasure to our red-faced kitchen girl as
the brilliantly blacked stove over whose
lustrous face so many pounds of plumbago
are expended per annum, while the red
brick floor is carefully washed before
breakfast every morning, and swept and
sprlnkled every afternoon in toddles one
of the small philosophers, to stare at the
spotted floor for some time, stoop down
and touch one of the wet patches with a
finger, ere the moisture is absorbed by the
soio pllCh, duu tueu tne DyStduUeTS are
with all due solemnity informed, that the
little piece of Importance thinks that
Sarah's tichen yains.'


One last little incident, piquant, but
sad and this time, too, no shaft of mine
but of brother fletcher, whose little ar
row here displayed the barb, and made its
wound in displaying something of the sell
fish element of the human heart
A little sister lay diving. and after due
preparation, and being told-wisely or not
that one was about to be taken away
the little boy was taken into the chamber
to say farewell to the fading blossom, and
gaze upon her with curious eyes Then
he said boldly;


Is Milly going away?'


Yes, darling but hush don't speak SO
loud


Is she going up to heaven?'


Yes-yes but don't speak like that


And will she never come back any
more ? This time in whisper.


No, darling, never-never. You must
say goodbye


'Ah, Milly, Milly,' cried the boy loud
ly-leaping forward to get to the bedside
: tell me where you hid my spade before
you go"


The Religion of Japan.
ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF BUDDHISM.