5. ""Tis well," said the cadi; "return to the tribunal." The cadi soon afterwards resumed his place, and, when the cripple arrived, judgment was pronounced. "The horse is thine," said the cadi to Bou-Akas; "go to the stable and take him." Then to the officer, "Give this cripple fifty blows." It was done; and Bou-Akas went to take his horse.

6. When the cadi, after concluding the business of the day, was retiring to his house, he found Bou-Akas waiting for him. "Art thou discontented with my award?" asked the judge. "No, quite the contrary," replied the sheik. "But I want to ask by what inspiration thou hast rendered justice; for I doubt not that the other two causes were decided as equitably as mine. I am not a merchant; I am Bou-Akas, sheik of the twelve tribes, and I wanted to judge for myself of thy reputed wisdom."

7. The cadi bowed to the ground, and kissed his master's hand. "I am anxious," said Bou-Akas, "to know the reasons which determined your three decisions."—"Nothing, my lord," replied the cadi, "can be more simple. Your highness saw that I detained for a night the three things in dispute?" "I did."

8. "Well, early in the morning I caused the woman to be called, and I said to her, suddenly, `' Put fresh ink in my inkstand.' Like a person who had done the same thing a hundred times before, she took the bottle, removed the cotton, washed them both, put in the cotton again, and poured in fresh ink, doing it all with the utmost neatness and dexterity. So I said to myself, 'A peasant's wife would know nothing about inkstands—she must belong to the taleb.'” "And

9. "Good!" said Bou-Akas, nodding his head. the money?""Did your highness remark," asked the cadi, "that the merchant had his clothes and hands covered with oil?""Certainly I did." "Well; I took the money, and placed it in a vessel filled with water. This morning I looked at it, and not a particle of oil was to be

seen on the surface of the water. So I said to myself, 'If this money belonged to the oil-merchant, it would be greasy, from the touch of his hands; as it is not so, the butcher's story must be true.'

10. Bou-Akas nodded in token of approval. "Good!" said he. "And my horse?" "Ah! that was a different business; and, until this morning, I was greatly puzzled.” -"The cripple, I suppose, did not rec'ognize the animal?" remarked the sheik. "On the contrary," said the cadi, "he pointed him out immediately." "How, then, did you discover that he was not the owner?"

11. "My object," replied the cadi, "in bringing you separately to the stable, was not to see whether you would know the horse, but whether the horse would acknowledge you. Now, when you approached him, the creature turned towards you, laid back his ears, and neighed with delight; but when the cripple touched him, he kicked. Then I knew that you were truly his master.”

12. Bou-Akas thought for a moment, and then said, "Allah has given thee great wisdom. Thou oughtest to be in my place, and I in thine. And yet, I know not; thou art certainly worthy to be sheik, but I fear that I should but badly fill thy place as cadi!

Dickens's Household Words.

XCI.

WE ALL MIGHT DO GOOD.

1. WE all might do good where we often do ill:
There is always the way, if there be but the will;
Though it be but a word kindly breathed or suppressed,
It may guard off some pain, or give peace to some breast.

2. We all might do good, whether lowly or great ;
For the deed is not gauged by the purse or estate.
If it be but a cup of cold water that 's given,

Like the widow's two mites, it is something for heaven.

XCII.

THE INDIAN AND THE STOLEN VENISON.

1. A NORTH AMERICAN Indian, upon returning home to his cabin, discovered that his venison," which had been hung up to dry, was stolen. After taking his observations on the spot, he set off in pursuit of the thief, whom he tracked through the woods.

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2. Meeting with some persons on his route, he inquired if they had seen a little old white man with a short gun, and accompanied by a small dog with a bob-tail. They answered in the affirmative; and, upon the Indian assuring them that the man thus described had stolen his venison, they desired to be informed how he was able to give so minūte a description of a person whom, it appeared, he had

never seen.

3. The Indian replied, "The thief, I know, is a little man, by his having heaped up a pile of stones to stand upon in order to reach the venison from the height at which 1 hung it while standing on the ground; that he is an old man, I know by his short steps, which I have traced over the dead leaves in the woods; and that he is a white man, I know by his turning out his toes when he walks which an Indian never does.

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66 His gun I know to be short, from the mark which the muzzle made by rubbing the bark of the tree against which it had leant; that his dog is small, I know by his track; and that he has a bob-tail, I discovered by the mark it made in the dust, where he was sitting while his master was busied about my meat."

XCIII. THE PAINTER'S SERVANT.

1. SIR JAMES THORNHILL, a distinguished painter, was employed in decorating the interior of the dome of St. Paul's Ca-the ́dral. One day, to observe the effect of a certain part of his work, he moved backwards from it along

the scaffolding, until he had reached the very edge; another step would have dashed him to pieces on the pavement below.

2. His servant at this moment observed his danger, and in an instant threw a pot of paint at the picture. Sir James immediately rushed forward to chastise the man for his apparently unjustifiable act; but, when the reason explained, he could not give him sufficient thanks, or sufficiently admire his ready ingenuity.

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3. Had the servant called out to apprise him of his danger, he would have probably lost his footing, and been killed. The only means of saving him was to create a motive for his voluntarily returning from the edge of the scaffold. For this purpose an injury to the painting was a good means. All these calculations, and the act itself, were the work of an instant; for this servant possessed the inestimable qualities of presence of mind and re-source'.

XCIV. SHORT POETICAL EXTRACTS.

1. KINDNESS IN LITTLE THINGS.- - Hannah More.

SINCE trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs,
Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,
And few can save or serve, but all can please,
O! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence,
A small unkindness is a great offence:
Large bounties to bestow we wish in vain,
But all may shun the guilt of giving pain.

All nature is but art unknown to thee;

All chance, direction which thou canst not see!
All discord, harmony not understood;

All partial evil, universal good.

And, spite of pride, in ĕrring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.

4. ACTION A LAW OF NATURE. - D. Grant.

1. I'm a strange contradiction; I'm new and I'm old,
I am often in tatters, and oft decked in gold.
Though I never could read, yet lettered I'm found;
Though blind, I enlighten; though loose, I am bound.

2. I am always in black, and I'm always in white;
I am grave and I'm gay, I am heavy and light :