tors. No restraints, no toils, no dull tasks, are to be found within my happy domains. All is pleasure, life, and good humour. Come then dear! my Let me put on you this dress, which will make you quite enchanting: and away, away with me!"

Melissa felt a strong inclination to comply with the call of this inviting nymph; but first she thought it would be prudent at least to ask her name. "My name," said she "is DISSIPATION."

She was

The other female then advanced. clothed in a close habit of brown stuff, simply relieved with white. She wore her smooth hair under a plain cap. Her whole person was perfectly neat and clean. Her look was serious, but satisfied; and her air was staid and composed. She held in one hand a distaff; on the opposite arm hung a work-basket; and the girdle round her waist was garnished with scissors, knitting-needles, reels, and other implements of female labour. A bunch of keys hung at her side. She thus accos ted the sleepy girl:

"Melissa, I am the genius who have ever been the friend and companion of your mother; and I now offer you my protection. I have no allurements to tempt you with, like those of my gay rival. Instead of spending all your time in amusements, if you enter yourself of my train, you must rise early, and pass the long day in a variety of employments, some of them difficult, some labori ous, and all requiring exertion of body or of mind. You must dress plainly: live mostly at home; and aim at being useful rather than shining.

"But in return, I will ensure you content, even spirits, self-approbation, and the esteem of all who

horoughly know you. If these offers appear to our young mind less inviting than those of my val, be assured, however, that they are more re1. She has promised much more than she can ver make good. Perpetual pleasures are no more the power of Dissipation, than of Vice and Folto bestow. Her delights quickly pall, and are nevitably succeeded by languor and disgust. She ppears to you under a disguise, and what you see s not her real face.

"For myself, I shall never seem to you less miable than I now do; but on the contrary, you vill like me better and better. If I look grave to ou now, you will see me cheerful at my work; nd when work is over, I can enjoy every innocent musement. But I have said enough. It is time or you to choose whom you will follow, and upon at choice all your happiness depends. If you would know my name it is HOUSEWIFERY. Melissa heard her with more attention than de ght; and though overawed by her manner, she ould not help turning again to take another look t the first speaker. She beheld her still offering er presents with so bewitching an air, that she elt it scarcely possible to resist; when, by a lucky ccident, the mask with which Dissipation's face was so artfully covered fell off. As soon as Mesea beheld, instead of the smiling features of youth nd cheerfulness, a countenance wan and ghastly with sickness, and soured by fretfulness, she turnd away with horror, and gave her hand unreluctntly to her sober and sincere companion.

ON EARLY RISING.

How foolish they who lengthen night,
And slumber in the morning light!
How sweet at early mornings rise,
To view the glories of the skies,
And mark with curious eye, the sun
Prepare his radiant course to run'
Its fairest form then nature wears,
And clad in brightest green appears
The sprightly lark with artless lay,
Proclaims the entrance of the day.

How sweet to breathe the gale's perfume,
And feast the eye with nature's bloom!
Along the dewy lawn to rove,
And hear the music of the grove!
Nor you, ye delicate and fair,
Neglect to taste the morning air;
This will your nerves with vigor brace,
Improve and heighten every grace;
Add to your breath a rich perfume;
And to your cheeks a fairer bloom:
With lustre teach your eyes to glow,
And health and cheerfulness bestow,

OIL.

There are different kinds of oil. Animals produce oil. Vegetables produce oil; and there is fossil oil.

The oil which is burnt in the lamp, is found in the whale. The whale is a very large fish. More than sixty barrels of oil have been taken from one

whale. Men go out in ships on purpose to catch the whale.

Every child, almost, has

seen a fish hook. Three of these hooks, of a very large size are fastened together, like a fork with three poin This instrument is called a harpoon. The peop who go out to catch the whale, carry some har poons with them. The harpoon has not a handle; it is fastened to a rope. When a whale swims near a ship, the whale catchers make fast to one end of the rope which has the harpoon fastened to the other end, and throw the harpoon with a great deal of force at the whale. The harpoon sticks fast into the whale, as a fork thrown at a child, would stick into him.

The whale feels the pain; he tries to get away, and dives below the surface of the water, but he takes the harpoon with him; for want of breath he is forced to rise to the surface, where he soon dies. The men then jump out into little boats; they take great knives, and cut the whale in pieces; they get from the whale's flesh all the oil they can and put it into barrels, bring it home, and sell it. It is burnt in lamps to light houses, shops and

streets.

Many plants produce oil. In France, Italy and some other countries, grows a tree called the olive. The fruit of the olive looks like a green plum-it has a stone on the inside like a plum stone. Olives are brought to this country in bottles.

When the fresh olive is squeezed, many drops of oil run out of it. This oil is brought to America— it is sometimes called sweet oil; it is eaten upon salad, and many other things.

The seed of the plant called flax, This is commonly called linseed oil. mixes his paint with linseed oil.

contains oil. The painter

In Asia, there are springs of oil-the oil is called naptha. It is of a dark colour like molasses.

There is in aromatic plants a fine oil which contains the odour or smell of the plant. Essences, or perfumes, such as otto of roses, rose water, and lavender water, contain this oil. It is called essential oil. Oils which may become solid, like tallow which is the fat of animals, are concrete oils.

Heat makes oils liquid. Cold, which is the absence of heat, makes them solid. The oily part of milk is butter. Castor oil, a very useful medicine, is extracted from the seeds of a plant.

DEFINITION OF COMMON TERMS

Children say an orange is round-a pencil is round-a ring is round—a cent is round-all these things are round-in this they are alilee; but they are different in other respects.

An orange, or a foot ball, is a sphere, or globe. A candle, or a pencil, is a cylinder.

A cent, which is flat, solid, and round, is a wheel. A ring, is a circle.

All these shapes are circular, because a circle can be made round any of them.

The middle of a circle is the centre.

A thing made by the hand of man is a manufac

ture.

The place where it is made, is a manufactory.
The person who makes it is a manufacturer