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the cobbler a handsome sum for them; this enabled the poor man to buy leather for two more pairs of boots. So, cutting them out, he left them ready as before for the morning: again he found them, on awaking, ready to hand. This continued morning after morning. Matters now began to prosper with the cobbler, so one day he proposed to his wife to watch and see who the generous benefactor might be, who thus day by day befriended him. They therefore next night secreted themselves behind a curtain, in anxious expectation as to what they would see. At midnight two little fairy dwarfs took their seat upon the shoemaker's bench, and at once set to work completing the shoes which they found ready cut. As soon as they had finished their task, they hurried away, leaving the cobbler and his wife wrapt in astonishment.

Next day the woman said to her husband, "These dear little creatures, who have been so kind to us, do not appear to have any clothing. Suppose I make each of them a suit of clothes, and you stitch them some shoes. Delighted with the idea of befriending their benefactors, the good man and his spouse immediately set to work and got the things ready; they then as before placed them on the bench, and secreted themselves to see what the little fairies would do. At the usual time the tiny creatures made their appearance, and much pleased at the garments prepared for them, they at once arrayed themselves in their new attire, and merrily danced about with glee: till, at length, away they bounded out of the cobbler's sight.

From that time forward, says the legend, everything prospered with him as long as he lived.-CORNISH FAIRY

TALE.

ANECDOTE OF M. BERRYER.

M. Berryer, who was one of the greatest and most eloquent French statesmen of the present century, in his youth was very lazy. His master had great trouble in making him submit to school discipline; he refused to exercise that memory which afterwards became so remarkable. The under-masters quite despaired of him, and went one day to tell the head-master that this boy would never do anything, and that they could not make anything of him. This gentleman, who was a man of sense, argued differently of Berryer. He sent for him into his study, and said to him, "My boy, work is disagreeable to you, and you think that happiness consists in doing nothing. Well, come into my study; you can look at me while I am at work-that will not fatigue you, and you will do nothing-but let us well understand each other; nothing of any kind, remember."

The boy was delighted. Here he was in the kind master's study, who went on working, taking no more notice of him than if he had been a piece of furniture in the room. The first hour passed away to the great pleasure of the scholar. He triumphed in thought over the usher who had to teach him; he congratulated himself on neither having to open his dictionary, nor learn his rudiments by heart. At the end of an hour and a half, however, he had sufficiently enjoyed the delights of fancy. He put out his arm to take a book. The master stopped him at once. "My boy," he said, "you forget our agreement; you are to do nothing. To read is to do something. Enjoy the permission I have given you-do nothing."

The boy began to discover that the pleasure of doing nothing soon became monotonous. He hazarded some questions; the master did not reply. Then, when he had

come to the end of the page he was writing, he said, “My boy, each has his taste; you have that of doing nothing, I have that of working. I do not trouble you in your repose, so do not disturb me in my work."

Young Berryer could scarcely help saying that it would be difficult for him to find happiness much longer in such patience. At the end of three hours the master got up, and went to take a walk under the shade of the trees in the park. "Good!" said the boy to himself, 66 now I am relieved from my imprisonment. I can amuse myself now." As soon as he came into the garden he wished to leave his master, and go and mingle with his schoolfellows, who were having a merry game. The master held him by the arm. "My boy, you are not thinking of our agreement; playing is doing something. Remain by my side, we will walk up and down this avenue, or you can sit down if you like better."

Honest and excellent master! a man of sense and talent, to whom, perhaps, the world owes the great Berryer. Instead of repeating to him how delightful work was, he made him love it by making him feel how insupportable was a life of idleness.-ANON.

EDUCATION IN INDIA.

We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by the means of their mother-tongue. We must teach them some foreign language; the claims of our own language it is hardly necessary to recapitulate. It stands pre-eminent among the languages of the West. It abounds with works of imagination, not inferior to the noblest which Greece has bequeathed to us; with models of every species of eloquence; with historical compositions, which, considered merely as narratives, have seldom been surpassed, and which, considered as vehicles of general and

political instruction, have never been equalled; with just and lively representations of human life and human nature ; with the most profound speculations on metaphysics, morals, government, jurisprudence, and trade; with full and correct information respecting every experimental science which tends to preserve the wealth, to increase the comfort, or to expand the intellect of man. Whoever knows that language has ready access to all the vast intellectual wealth which all the wisest nations of the earth have created and hoarded in the course of ninety generations. It may safely be said, that the literature now extant in that language is of far greater value than all the literature which three hundred years ago was extant in all the languages of the world together. Nor is this all. In India, English is the language spoken by the ruling class. In is spoken by the higher class of natives at the seats of government. It is likely to become the language of commerce throughout the seas of the East. It is the language of two great European communities which are rising, the one in the south of Africa, the other in Australasia; communities which are every year becoming more important and more closely connected with our Indian empire. Whether we look at the intrinsic value of our literature, or at the particular situation of this country (India) we shall see the strongest reason to think that, of all foreign tongues, the English tongue is that which would be the most useful to our native subjects.-MACAULAY.

LIVINGSTONE AND THE LION.

It is well known that if one in a troop of lions is killed, the others take the hint and leave that part of the country. So the next time the herds were attacked I went with the people, in order to encourage them to rid themselves of

the annoyance by destroying one of the marauders. We found the lions on a small hill about a quarter of a mile in length, and covered with trees. . . . A circle of men was formed round it, and they gradually closed up, ascending pretty near to each other. Being down below on the plain with a native schoolmaster, named Mebálme, a most excellent man, I saw one of the lions sitting on a piece of rock within the now closed circle of men, Mebálme fired at him before I could, and the ball struck the rock on which the animal was sitting. He bit at the spot struck, as a dog does at a stick or stone thrown at him; then leaping away, broke through the opening circle and escaped unhurt. The men were afraid to attack him, perhaps on account of their belief in witchcraft. When the circle was reformed, we saw two lions in it, but we were afraid to fire, lest we should strike the men, and they allowed the beasts to burst through also. If they had acted according to the custom of the country, they would have speared the lions in their attempt to get out.

Seeing we could not get them to kill one of the lions, we bent our footsteps towards the village; in going round the end of the hill, however, I saw one of the beasts sitting on a piece of rock as before, but this time he had a little bush in front. Being about thirty yards off, I took a good aim at his body through the bush, and fired both barrels into it. The men then called out, "He is shot, he is shot!" Others cried, "He has been shot by another man too; let us go to him!" I did not see anyone else shoot at him, but I saw the lion's tail erected in anger behind the bush, and turning to the people said, "Stop a little till I load again." When in the act of ramming down the bullets I heard a shout. Starting and looking half round, I saw the lion just in the act of springing upon me. I was upon a

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