7. "Said Dick to me 'Let's have a pull,
Father will never know;

He's busy in his wheat up there,
And cannot see us go:

These landsmen are such cowards, if
A puff of wind does blow.

8. "I've been to France and back three timesWho knows best, Dad or me,

Whether a craft's seaworthy or not?—
'Dolly, wilt go to sea?"

And Dolly laughed, and hugged him tight,
As pleased as she could be.

9. "I don't mean, sirs, to blame poor Dick: What he did, sure I'd do:

And many a sail in 'Tricksy Jane'
We'd had when she was new.
Father was always sharp; and what
He said, he meant it too.

10. "But now the sky had not a cloud, The bay looked smooth as glass; Our Dick could manage any boat,

As neat as ever was;

And Dolly crowed, 'Me go to sea!'
The jolly little lass!

11. "Well, sirs, we went; a pair of oars,
My jacket for a sail;

Just round, 'Old Harry and his Wife'—
Those rocks there, within hail-

And we came back.-D'ye want to hear
The end o' the old man's tale?

12. "Ay, ay, we came back, past that point, But then a breeze upsprung;

Dick shouted, 'Hoy! down sail!' and pulled
With all his might among

The white sea-horses that upreared
So terrible and strong.

13. "I pulled too; I was blind with fear-
But I could hear Dick's breath
Coming and going, as he told
Dolly to creep beneath

His jacket, and not hold him so:
We rowed for life or death.

14. "We almost reached the sheltered bay, We could see father stand

Upon the little jetty here,

His sickle in his hand

The houses white, the yellow fields,
The safe and pleasant land.

15. "And Dick, though pale as any ghost,
Had only said to me,

'We're all right now, old lad!' when up
A wave rolled-drenched us three-
One lurch-and then I felt the chill
And roar of blinding sea.

16. "I don't remember much but that
You see I'm safe and sound;

I have been wrecked four times since then,
Seen queer sights, I'll be bound:

I think folks sleep beneath the deep,
As calm as under ground."

17. "But Dick and Dolly ?" "Well, poor Dick! I saw him rise and cling

18.

*

Under the gunwale of the boat-
Floating keel up-and sing

Out loud, Where's Doll?'-I hear him yet,
As clear as anything.

"Where's Dolly?' I no answer made;
For she dropped like a stone

Down through the deep sea-and it closed:
The little thing was gone.

'Where's Doll? three times-then Dick
loosed hold,

And left me there alone.

*

19. "It's five and forty years since then,"
Muttered the boatman gray,

And drew his rough hand o'er his eyes,
And stared across the bay;

"Just five and forty years!" and not
Another word did say.

20. "But Dolly?" ask the children all,
As they about him stand;-
"Poor Doll! she floated back next tide
With seaweed in her hand.
She's buried o'er that hill you see

In a churchyard on land.

21. "But where Dick lies, God knows! He'll find Our Dick at judgment day."

The boatman fell to mending nets,

The boys ran off to play;

And the sun shone and the waves danced

In quiet Swanage Bay.

BOME girls and boys were playing at hide-andseek, when Mark Hanson saw Mary Bancroft go and hide in a large chest. Mark thought it would be good sport to lock Mary up in the chest ; so he went slily and pressed down the cover and turned the key.

2. Mary made an outcry when she found she was locked in. Mark did not heed her cries, but ran off and played for some time with the other girls and boys.

3. At last some one asked, "Where is Mary ?” to which Mark replied, "I have played a good trick on Mary. Let us go now and let her out of jail." So Mark led the way to the chest, and cried, "Halloo! Do you wish to be let out?"

Mark lis

4. To this question no answer came. tened, but could hear no noise in the trunk. turned the key and lifted the cover.

He

What was

his horror on finding Mary motionless and senseless! An alarm was raised at once, and the doctor was sent for.

5. For more than an hour it was believed that

Mary was dead. But at length she gave some signs of life. The doctor worked with new zeal, and, after much effort, she was restored. Then the doctor turned to Mark, and said, "Were you such a little dunce as not to know that without fresh air

we cannot live ? Come here, girls and boys, and remember this: though we may take pure air into our lungs, we do not breathe pure air out.

6. "The air which we breathe out is not fit to be breathed in again. We soon use up, in this way, all the pure air about us. So we must have a fresh supply. As soon as Mary had breathed in all the good air that was in the trunk, there was nothing left but poisoned air. If fresh air had not been given to her by opening the trunk, she could not have lived three minutes longer.

7. "Nothing is so needful to health as good, pure air. Whether you are in the school-room or in the house, remember this. Bad air is so much poison, and the more we breathe it, the worse it gets. The poison is carbonic acid, and to breathe it long is certain death.

8. "Not many years ago, during a storm at sea, a stupid sea-captain ordered his passengers to go below in the hold of the vessel. Then he covered up the hold, so that no fresh air could enter. When the storm was over he opened the hold, and found that seventy human beings had died for want of pure air.

9. "Through his gross ignorance of the laws of life he had done all this mischief. Remember,