make? [Ans. All things.] Who does God love? [Ans. Those who are good.] Does God love poor p-ople? [Ans, Yes, if they love him.] Who will God bless? Ans. Those who love him.] Will God who is good and wise, love bad people as he loves those who are good? [Ans. No.] Should not you try then to be good? [Ans. Yes.] Who made day and night? [Ans. God.] What did God make day for?? [Ans. To work in. What did God make night for [Ans. To take rest in.] Is there any dark night with God? [Ans. No.] What does God dwell in? [Ans. Light brighter than the sun,]

What does Gop see? [Ans. All things.] What does God know? [Ans. All things.] Does God know the thoughts of our hearts? [Ans. Yes.] As God sees all we do, what should we take care not to do? [Ans. Bad things] As God hears all we say, what should we take care not to speak? [Ans. Bad words.] What shall we lose if we do bad things, and speak bad words? [Ans. The love of God.] Is it a bad thing to tell lies? [Ans. Yes.] Who knows when people tell lies? [Ans. God.] Is it a bad thing to steal? [Ans. Yes.] Who knows when people steal? [As. God.] Is it possible to hide any thing from God? [Ans. No.] Will God love those who tell lies or steal? [Ans. No.] Is it not a very mean as well as a wicked thing to tell lies? [Ars. Yes.] Does not every body despise liars? Ans. Yes] Should you like to be despised by every body? [Ans. No.] What does one lie generally draw on? [Ans. More lies.] Do you think God will love those who swear and take his name in vain? [Ans. No.] Is it right to call people by bad names? [Ans. No.] Is not a good word as soon said as is a bad one? [Ans. Yes,] May you steal little things? [Ans. No.] Are other people's clothes yours? [Ans. No.] Is their money yours? [Ans. No.] What bad thing will you do if you take them without their leave? [Ans. Steal.] Does God love those who steal? [Ans. No.] Who is the best friend you can have? Ans. God.] To whom is God a sure friend, if they are good? [Ans. The poor.] If you would have God for your friend, what must you try to be? [Ans. Good.] Who can hurt you if you have God for your friend? [Ans. Nobody,]

When will God take care of you if you are good? [Ans. By night and by day.] What will God give you to enable you to work, if he sees fit? [As. Strength] What will God give you to enable you to learn [Ans. Sense.] As. God is good, should not you love him? [Ans. Yes.] As he

is great, should you not fear him? Ant. Yes. Who is the giver of all good things? [Ans. God.] What must you do when you want any thing from God? [Ans. Pray to him.] Do not you want victuals and drink and clothes? [Ans. Yes.] Do not you want health and friends? [Ans. Yes.] What must you give to God for all the good things he bestows upon you? Lus, Thanks.] a bit se fisetor, Rollbar kor

Does not God love those who are good natured and kind to other people? Ans. Yes. Is it good-natured to fight, and scratch, and call names? [ins. No.] Is it good-natured to spoil things belonging to other people, or to hurt poor dumb creatures? Ans. No.] Can dumb creatures feel? [Ans. Yes. Have they not flesh and blood and bones as well 1 as you? [Ans. Yes.] Do not you feel pain when any one gives you a hard blow with a stick or as stone, or a cut with a whip? [Ans. Yes.] Don't you feel pain when you are cut with a knife or any other sharp thing? [Ans. Yes.] Should you make it your sport then to bruise or wound poor damb creatures? [Ans. No] Would it not hurt you sadly were you to break your leg or your arm, or to have it cut off? [ns. Yes.] Is not a leg a leg to a fly, as well as to a boy or girl? [Ans. Yes.] If you get a scratch with a pin, how do you feel? [Ans Sore.] Would not you feel a great deal worse if any body was to run a spit or a sword through your arm, or any other part of you? [Ans. Yes.] Is not a pin as large to a fly as a spit or a sword to you? [Ans. Yes] Should you like to have a string tied to your leg, and to be pulled about by it? [Ans. No.] Should you like to be shut up in a cage and starved to death? [Ans. No.] Should you serve poor birds so then? [Ans. No.] Is it hight to make sport of terrifying poor dumb creatures? [Ans. No.] Who made beast, and flies, and birds, and all living creatures? [Ans. God.] Whose creatures are they? [Ans. God's.] Will God be pleased with those who use his creatures cruelly? [Ans. No.]

What day of the week is the LORD'S DAY? [Ans. The Sabbath day. Who is the Lord? [ins. God.) Why is God called the Lord? Ans. Because he rules over all things. in heaven and earth.] Where should people always go to on the Lord's day? [ns. To church.] What should you do there? [Ans. Pray and hear God's word] What should you not do in church? Ans. Talk or play.] Does not God know who pray to him, and hearken when the minister reads his word, and who do not? [ans. Yes.] Does not God

know who play, and talk idle talk in his house? [Ans. Yes.] Don't you think God will be very angry with those who do so! [Ans. Yes.] Should not you be afraid of making God angry? [Ans. Yes. What is the church? [Ans. "God's house.] Is it right to go into God's house with a dirty skin? dns. No.] Is it right to go thither without cleaning your shoes, and making yourself as tidy as you can? [Ans. No.] What should boys do with their hats, when they enter the house of God? [Ans, Pull them off.] What should girls do with their pattens? [Ans. Pull them off.] In what posture should you always pray to God? [Ans. Upon your knees.] Should you sit down, or stand, when the rest of the people in church kneel down? [Ans. No kneel down.] Should nots children do what good men and women do in church, as far as they are able? [Ans. Yes. Cannot children, even before they are able to read, join in the prayers [Ans. Yes.] Should they bawl out loud, so as to disturb the people [Ans. No.] How should they say their prayers? Ans. In a low voice.] Should children run in and out of church in a rude way, so as to hinder other people? [Ans. No.] How should the children of a school sit at church? [Ans. In their places.] How should they walk to and from church? [Ans. În their proper ranks.] What should you shew by your whole be haviour? [Ans. That you are a good child.]

SHORT STORIES OF GOOD AND BAD GIRLS, From the Charity School Spelling-Book, Part I. with Questions.

DIRECTIONS FOR THE TEACHER.

The Stories may be read occasionally, one or two at a time, for the instruction and amusement of such children as are not able to read them in the SpellingBook, but they should be desired to take notice of what shall appear to them to be right or wrong in the girls or boys they relate to, that they may be led to follow the example of the good and avoid that of the bad. If the scholars are able, they may read the stories themselves in the Spelling Book, and be questioned afterwards.

STORY I.

Jane Sparks was a good girl; she was with her aunt, who was in want of her to nurse a child. Jane was but nine years old, yet she could dress the babe, and nurse it and feed it. -She would nurse it all day long, and not be the least cross to it; but made it her play to please the babe, and keep it quiet, and said it was her live doll.

... She kept it quite cleau and nice, and did not give it cakes for trash to daub its mouth and its clothes, and make it sick, but fed it with bread and milk as she ought to do.

Jane Sparks would say to the babe, as it lay in her lap, I wish I could work for you, Bet; I would mend all your things, and make you new ones too, if I could get cloth and stuff to make them of..

A gentleman, as he went by, heard her say this; and he said to her, "What is your name, child?"- “Jane Sparks, Sir," said she. "Well," said this gentleman, "I think you are a good girl, and I will take you to a school where you shall be taught to work."-" Thank you, Sir," said Jane Sparks, "but I must set Bet upon her feet first, if you please; when she can run and trot, I dare say my aunt will spare me to go to school, and I shall be glad to go."

Then Jane Sparks took great pains to get the child to walk; and when it could go well her aunt said to her, "Now, Jane, you may go to school." So Jane went to her friend, and said to him, "I can go to school now, Sir, if you please to Take me."-"That I will do with all my heart," said he. So he went with her, and said to the rest of the girls," See here, I have brought a girl who will, I dare say, be as good as the best of you;" and so she was; for she soon learnt to hem and sew, to spin and to knit, and more than these, for she was taught to read and spell too.

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In a short time Jane Sparks made her dear Bet a cap; and the child was so proud of it, that when she could speak, the first words she said were, "New cap!".

At last Jane knew how to make all the things the child wore, and her own too; so she had great cause to be glad that she met with a friend to take her to school..

Questions-Was Jane Sparks a good girl or a naughty one? [Ans. A good one. Who did she live with? [Ans. Her aunt. What did she do at her aunt's? [Ans. Nurse the babe.] What did she call it? [Ans. Her live doll.] Did Jane Sparks gain a friend by her good behaviour? Ans.

Yes.] What did this friend offer to do for her? [Ans. Put Her to school.] Did Jane accept of this kind offer directly ? [Ans. No.] Was not she very kind to think for the poor child's good, instead of her own? [Ans. Yes.] 2 30.7

What did Jane Sparks do when she had set the little babe upon its feet? [Ans. Go to the gentleman.] Did the gentleman take her to school Ans. Yes!] What did he say of her? [Ans. That she was a good girl.] Don't you think It must give a girl great pleasure to hear herself so well recommended? Ans. Yes.] Did she keep up the good character the gentleman gave her? [Ans. Yes.] Did she learn any thing at school? [Ans. Yes.] Did she leave off being kind to the child when she went to school? [Ans. No:] Did she make good use of her learning? [Ans Yes.]

Instruction. Then, you see, you may learn from the story of Jane Sparks, that a girl of nine years old may be very useful, and make a handy little nurse that those who behave well make friends for themselves---that people should not think of their own concerns alone, but study to do that which is for the good of others---that it is a very great happiness to be put to school---that a g good character is very comfortable; and that what is learnt in school may be turned to good account both for yourself and others. Remember then to follow Jane Sparks's example in every thing you can

STORY II.

Ann Stowe was a good girl, she did all she could to make lier friends love her. She could help to make the beds when she was but eight years old, and could sweep the house quite clean, and scrub the shelves, and wash the plates, and set them up in a row; and clean knives and forks, and spoons. It would be a good thing for the poor if all girls of eight -years old could do as much as Ann Stowe.

But poor Ann Stowe could not read a word; she had no one at home to teach her, or to pay for her at school. But a friend to the poor found her out, and said, "You are a nice young maid, and I will take care you shall be taught to read;" so he bid her come to school; and she had work to do part of the day, the rest of it she was taught to read and spell. She took such pains that she learnt quite fast, and soon read well: and then she was glad she had found a friend to send her to school.

Questions Was Ann Stowe a good girl or a naughty one?