ple say they resemble their father very much, and they fear they will be no better than squirrel hunters all their days.

Now let all children and youth take warning from John Alsop. Let them acquire the habit of fixed attention to what they are doing. If they are employed in labour, or study, or hearing the instructions of another, or in innocent play, let them attend to it at the time, and finish it, and then think seriously what they have to do next, and then go and do that other thing with the same attention and diligence. Let them never leave important business for trifles, or take up with a project as a very good and promising thing until they have inquired all about it, and examined it well. Let them be diligent and persevering in every lawful undertaking of life, and "not meddle with them that are given to change."

So let them form habits which will make them respectable in all the relations and situations of life. And may it never be said of one of our readers, that he or she is a person that runs after squirrels.

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GOD IS ALWAYS RIGHT.

"MOTHER," said little Mary Scott, one day, "do you think God is always right? Why do you ask, my dear?”

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how can he be always right, when he lets so many good people be poor and in want, while so many wicked ones are so rich and comfortable?" "Before I answer your question, Mary," said her mother, “I will tell you a short, story. There was once a little girl named Emma Brown, about as old as you are. One day, Emma asked her mother if she might invite her cousin Fanny to drink tea with her. No, my dear,' was the reply, 'I do not choose you to have anything to do with your cousin.' Why not?' said Emma. My dear,' replied her mother, it is not necessary that I should tell my reasons to a little girl like you.' Emma could not help thinking that her mother was very unkind, and that she could have no good reason for disappointing her. Now Mrs. Brown's real motive was, she knew that Fanny was an artful, vain girl, who would, if she were allowed, make Emma as naughty as herself. And when Emma was grown older and wiser, she was very thankful that she had not been allowed to be intimate with such a bad girl, and sorry that she had thought her mother unkind because she could not understand her motives. And now, my dear Mary," continued Mrs. Scott, "do you understand my story?" "Oh yes," said Mary, "I see it was very wrong in me to say that God does not do right, because I cannot understand his reasons."

"Yes, my dear child," said Mrs. Scott, "and you may be sure he only deprives good people of riches in this world, because he knows they would be hurtful to them, and might perhaps lead them to forget, that he has laid up for those who have faith in his blessed Son, and strive to serve him, a crown of glory, and eternal riches in heaven."

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is leading into the stable," exclaimed Frederick Rosham, as he ran, breathless with haste, into the parlour where his sister was sitting. Mary went willingly to admire the little creature with which her brother was so delighted. The little boy was impatient to mount it, and his mother had agreed to allow him to do so in the afternoon; but unfortunately a shower came on, and he was compelled to stay at home.

Frederick bore his disappointment very well, and began looking at some of his sister's drawings of animals. "The zebra, an animal of the horse kind!' What does that mean, Mary ?" inquired he. "I thought there was no other animal of the horse kind besides the horse itself; is there?"

'Yes," replied Mary, "there are three of the horse kind; the horse, the ass, and the zebra, the wildest and the most beautiful animal in existence, but the most difficult to tame. Like the horse, the breed came originally from Arabia, where there are still to be found wild horses in their vast deserts."

How are the wild horses caught?"

"Their swiftness prevents their being caught in hunting; but they are taken by concealed pits, after which they are made tame by hunger and fatigue."

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When were they first brought into England?"

They were first brought in the seventeenth century; but most of the horses now in England are very inferior, both in swiftThe ness and beauty, to the Arabian. Arab always treats his horse as one of his own family, and believes it to be of a naWhen ture superior to all other animals. the young horses are a month old, for a hundred days it is allowed to taste nothing but camels' milk. Such is the care they take of this noble creature."

"And what do they feed it with then?"

Gradually, and with great care, it is accustomed to eat wheat and barley. It is, however, sometimes fed with a paste made of dates. Nothing can exceed the kindness and affection of the Arab to his horse. Almost every Arab, even the poorest, has one; at night, it sleeps amidst the family, which it takes care never to hurt, and who caress it as they would caress a favourite person among themselves."

"I suppose the Arabs never use any whips, do they?"

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Oh no ; a very slight pressure is enough to make the animal put forth its speed; and if by any accident the rider falls off, it always stops till he remounts. The Arab always addresses it by some endearing name, and really believes that it understands all that is said to it. It will eat bread out of the hand, and has almost as many