'Squire wants to speak to you; and you and I are ordered to go up together, in half an hour; what can he want with us? I am sure I have done nothing to have anger about." "We shall hear when we get there," answered his mother. Will, having cleaned himself, accompanied his mother to the farm. On the entrance of Mrs. Cole and her son, the master presented the widow with a note of double the value, and said, that, from the conduct of her son, since he had been employed on the farm, and from the circumstance of his having been brought up under such a mother, he felt the fullest confidence in his honesty, and should appoint him as his bailiff to manage the affairs of a small farm a few miles distant. The widow and her son, as may be supposed, were overcome with joy and gratitude; and we must all be willing to admire both the honesty of this poor widow, and the generosity of the master." Cottage Comforts, p. 4.

BAD MANAGEMENT.

The following account of a bad manager may be of use:" There are the beds to be made; and the breakfast things to be washed; and pudding and potatoes to be boiled for dinner." A bad manager receives these directions from her mistress; and to work she goes, with bustle enough, perhaps, as if she would accomplish it all, long before dinner time. She makes the beds, and comes down to wash the breakfast things. "Oh dear, Oh dear! was ever any thing so provoking? not a drop of water in the kettle, and the fire just out!" Then the sticks and the bellows go to work (by the way, I never knew any but a bad manager, who found it necessary often to use the bellows)-at length the water boils, and the clock strikes-why-what o'clock is that? my pudding ought to be in-and it is not made, nor any water set on for it-well I must use this,

and do the tea-things afterwards. The pudding is made, and put in half an hour later than it should be-then to work again to heat water for the teathings-it boils-but she must now first put the potatoes on, or they will not be half done by dinner time. The potatoes are put on, and the water poured out-but now the family are assembled for dinner, and the cloth must be laid-and the potatoes are all but raw, and the pudding but half-boiled --and the water cold, and the tea-things not washed up-and the mistress displeased, and the house thrown into confusion. It seems never to occur to a bad manager, that there are some things, which, if once set a going, go on by themselves. If she had but supplied the fire with coals, it would have drawn up-and set on the kettle, the water would have boiled for the tea-things, whilst she made the beds -and the fire would have been at liberty for the pudding water to be set on-and all the mischief would have been prevented.

How would this disposition do to be carried into Cottage Comforts, p. 12.

a cottage?

QUESTIONS FROM THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. (See p. 270. Vol. II.)

In what year did Henry the First die?

Did he leave a son behind him?

Did he leave a daughter?

What was this daughter's name?

Ought she to have been queen?

Who did actually take possession of the throne? What relation was Stephen to Matilda?

Whose son was Stephen?

Did Stephen and Matilda contend for the throne?

Did he live to be king?

Who was king after Stephen's death?
In what year did Stephen die?

Can you make a little Table of Kings, as far as Henry the Second, with the dates of the years when they began to reign?

ROBBING ORCHARDS.

An honest person considers the property of another as sacred; he does not touch it. But there are some persons who call themselves honest, and who would not indeed take what appeared to them of great value, yet who consider some things as too trifling to be thought of; they think they will not be missed, for there is plenty, and they may therefore have a little. But a truly upright honourableminded person thinks very differently. Robbing orchards is, among some sort of boys, considered as nothing; a boy of right principles would scorn to do so mean and so dishonest an action. To those who are influenced by religious motives, or by an honourable feeling rightly founded, it is needless for us to speak, for they are already sufficiently armed against every thing that even looks like dishonesty:-but robbing orchards is actual dishonesty: we may call it what we please; but we cannot make it any thing short of thieving. Those who are not kept from such acts by better motives, may perhaps be deterred from their dishonest practices by learning that an act of parliament has lately passed, which makes robbing orchards and gardens a felony; so that what may have appeared

to some unprincipled boys as a frolic, or a pastime, will now subject them to imprisonment as felons, and may be even punished with transportation.

The following is an extract from the Act of the 6th George IV." If any person shall, after the 1st day of August, 1825, enter into any garden, orchard, or nursery ground, or into any hothouse, greenhouse, or conservatory, and shall take or carry away any trees, plants, shrubs, or roots, or any fruit or vegetable productions, he shall be guilty of felony, and shall be punished as guilty of feloniously stealing the same," &c.

V.

ON KEEPING CHURCHES IN REPAIR, AND REVERENTLY OBSERVING THE SABBATH.

THE following is an extract from a pamphlet, entitled "A Friendly Remonstrance to his Parishioners, on the State of their Church and Parish. by the Rev. L. J. Hobson, Perpetual Curate of Mexborough."-We trust there are very few Churches and Parishes in this state now. In many parts of the country the visits of Archdeacons have been of very great service in directing the cleansing and repairing of Churches, and providing them with all things necessary for the becoming celebration of public worship. This is a very important subject, and intimately connected with the progress of religion. We hope, too, that few congregations are to be found in the state of careless indifference and ignorance, which the above writer deplores. If, however, the "friendly remonstrance" should happen to point out the state of any other parish besides Mexborough, it may serve as a warning, and therefore not be without its use. Mr. Hobson's remarks are to the following effect:--

"No sooner had I got into my parish, than subjects of grief appeared on every side. I had the mortification to see throughout the church a general decay; the service books torn quite in fragments; the pulpit and desk in such a state as to tremble under the weight of a minister hardly drawing ten stone; the floor of the clerk's desk actually sinking; the floors every where shewing frightful chasms; the pews jagged, broken, and creaking on the slightest pressure; and the walls partly white, partly black, and partly green. In the chancel, the monuments of the patriotic Savilles, formerly so beautiful and ornamental, were fast mouldering away; though traces of their ancient beauty were still visible even in their ruins. Looking for the Royal Arms, which formerly announced to me that I was officiating in a church of the Establishment, I at length espied them in the belfry, but so much defaced, that they could scarcely be deciphered. The clock also had ceased to strike, and one of the bells was broken.

"After noticing the state of the church, I must now pass on to notice what I found to be wrong during the time of divine worship, and when it was over. Small as was the congregation, I hoped, that when I began the service of the church, my mind was about to forget its sorrows, and to be revived and animated by the devotions of the little flock. But instead of this, when kneeling upon my knees,' according to the direction of the Rubric, to offer up the confession, I observed, that nearly all who were present had the effrontery to sit down,yes, to sit down, though professing to acknowledge their sins, and to pray that the wrath of the Al.mighty might be turned away. Nor, was this the only disobedience to the orders of the Church; for, instead of following the minister in an humble voice,' few opened their mouths at all, unless to shew symptoms of weariness and indolence, proving how tedious they thought the service, and how