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home for your pains, or throw it away. How much wiser is he about those oysters? Sold them at the same price I did the fresh ones. He would never have looked at the melon until he had gone away."

"Ben, I would not tell a lie, or act one either, for twice what I have earned this morning. Besides, I shall be better off in the end, for I have gained a customer, and you have lost one."

And so it proved; for the next day the gentleman bought quite a supply of fruit of Harry, but never spent another penny at the stand of Ben. Thus the season

passed the gentleman, finding he could always get a good article of Harry, always bought of him, and sometimes talked a few minutes with him about his future hopes and prospects. To become a tradesman was his great ambition; and when the winter came on, the gentleman, wanting a trusty boy for his shop, decided on giving the place to Harry. Steadily and surely he advanced in the confidence of his employer, until he became at length an honoured partner in the firm.

DO WHAT YOU CAN.
DоTH not each rain-drop help to form

The cool refreshing shower,

And every ray of light to warm

And beautify the flower ?

Then let each child his influence give,

O Lord, to truth and thee;

So shall its power by all be felt,
However small it be.

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THE CHAMELEON.

THERE he is. He is a strange-looking animal! I found him behind an old log as I was on a journey in America. I picked him up, and brought him home in a piece of newspaper; and now the engraver has made a picture of him, and the printer has printed it, and you see it here, nearly the real size of the pretty little fellow.

But neither the printer nor the engraver can show you the beautiful colours which the creature shows as you look at him. When I caught him he was a greyish purple. Soon his back changed to dark brown, and the delicate skin under his throat became nearly white. When I next looked at him he was a bright green; and now, as I write, he is a reddishbrown. Sometimes he changes his colour in a minute or two, and sometimes the change is very slow-so slow, that you would hardly notice it while it is going on. He changes just as he pleases; and it is not easy to say exactly what makes him change, further than that God has given him the ability to do so. Some people have a notion that he changes to the colour of what he walks on or of what he sees; but our little friend has shown half a dozen colours while he has been in a globe of glass on my table.

There are a great many ways in which boys and girls change colour. I do not mean that they turn brown, green, or yellow, like this chameleon, although I have sometimes seen boys turn very red in the face when they are angry, and white when they have told a lie. These changes of colour are bad; but they are not what I want to speak of now. The changes I

mean are those which are made from a want of fixed principle to stand up for what is right.

One boy goes regularly to Sunday school, but forgets all about his religion on week days, when he goes to school where the other boys don't like religion. He changes his colour.

Another, who knows his hymn-book nearly through, and can say a great many verses in the Bible, meets with rude boys, who ask him to go to the fair. It is not the kind of company he has been used to, nor the kind of amusement he has been taught to enjoy; but he yields to them-off he goes to the fair. He changes his colour.

Another, who knows what is written in the third commandment, falls in with some wicked boys who use bad words. It seems wrong to him to use their language; still he is afraid they will not think well of him if he does not. He changes his colour.

A little girl, who is always in her place in the class on Sunday, is asked on Monday by mother to do something which she don't want to do. She pouts, frets, and "looks black" at her mother. She changes her colour.

Listen! Don't be ashamed of your colours. Whatever is right, do it; whatever is wrong, avoid it. And that you may speak and act rightly, do not forget to pray that God may help you by his grace.

CHILDREN MAY NOW GO TO JESUS. JESUS says, "Come unto me." He says it to all-to little children as well as grown-up people. How are you to obey his call? How can you come to him?

First, YOU CAN THINK ABOUT HIM. There was once a child who was far away from his father. His name was Frank. He was born in the hot country called India. His dear mother was dead, and so were three little brothers, who used to play with him. Frank was the only one left to his father, and very dearly did that father love him.

After some time Frank was taken ill. No care or love could make the rose's bloom on his pale face. The doctor said that if he did not leave India he would die. This was sad news to his father. So, to save his life the father's darling boy was sent to England.

A lady took charge of Frank, for the father could not leave India. As they sailed in a ship the poor boy was very sad in his heart. He used to sit in a corner of the vessel and weep.

There was an old sailor on board the ship who pitied the little pale child. He would often sit down with him and tell him nice stories. He spoke about the great deep sea, and storms, and far-off lands, and many other things. Then Frank told the sailor of his great trouble, and that he feared he should never see his father again.

The old man tried to comfort the little boy. He said that if he truly loved his father, he might fancy that he was nigh to him all the day long. He could do everything he had taught him to do, just as if his eye were upon him. He might say the prayers and the hymns his father had taught him, as if he were with him. He could do all things as if he heard his voice, and felt his soft kiss on his cheek.

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