Oh! what an empire has virtue over souls most ferocious! This unexpected incident disconcerts the commander of the massacre.-Perhaps he was a father also. The voice of admiration, the cry of pity rise suddenly from his heart! He alleged some special pretext for delivering the Creole from death, and causes him to be reconducted to prison with his child. A moment of delay is sometimes precious. The face of affairs having shortly changed, the good father was released, and since that happy day, he ceases not to relate, with the tenderest emotion, the heroic action of his daughter, aged then only ten years.

THE MISEDUCATED KITTEN.

A LITTLE girl in Paris had a kitten given to her, when it was very young. She would not wait till the cat had weaned it, and it was able to eat for itself, but insisted on having it at once. You may be sure she had no small trouble with it, and I imagine she could not have had much else to do, to be able to take the pains she did. However that may be, she seems to have been a patient and persevering child; for when she found that the poor little thing would not eat, and was likely to starve, she actually undertook to teach it to drink out of a spoonnot by lapping with its tongue, as cats usually do-it was too young to be able to do that-but taking the spoon in its mouth, just as a little baby might! And she succeeded too! The little kitten did learn to take its breakfast from the spoon, with which its mistress fed it, like a baby. But then, mark the consequence! By-and-by, this little kitten

grew big, and its little mistress began to think it too much trouble to feed a grown-up cat with a spoon, and so left it to shift for itself, as other cats do. But the poor thing would not! It not only was unable to hunt about for its own provision, but it would not eat or drink what was set before it. The poor animal, not having learned at first to lap with its tongue, kept all the time thrusting its whole mouth into the plate, and would never learn to do otherwise; it very soon died of thirst and hunger. Ah! thought I to myself when I read this, how many poor neglected children this story represents! How many there are, whose foolish parents, like the little girl, take pains to spoil them, while they are young and fit to be playthings; forgetting that when they grow up, this will be their ruin.

One thing more; observe how the kitten was taught to do what nobody would have thought a cat could do: this was education" drawing out" powers which you would not have supposed it had. It was a wrong education for the cat-and so many a poor child gets a wrong education from a worldly parent: but the same pains would bring about good effects just as great and remarkable, if taken in a right way.