Part 7 (2/2)

”Well, are you satisfied now?” asked the Partridge

”My dear h, you have ood dinner, and you have saved my life; but upon ood-bye!”

And the Jackal never went near the Partridge again

FLORA ANNIE STEEL: ”Tales from the Punjab”

HIDE AND SEEK

All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still, All the flocks of fleecy clouds have wandered past the hill; Through the noonday silence, down the woods of June, Hark! a little hunter's voice co with a tune

”Hide and seek!

”When I speak, ”You ain, ”Merry men, ”Coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!”

Now I hear his footsteps, rustling through the grass: Hidden in my leafy nook, shall I let him pass?

Just a low, soft whistle,--quick the hunter turns, Leaps upon , rolls ht at last!

”Now you're it, you see

”Hide your eye, ”Till I cry, ”Coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!”

Long ago he left h the world and seek hih and low; Hidden safe and happy, in some pleasant place,-- Ah, if I could hear his voice, I soon should find his face

Far away, Many a day, Where can Barney be?

Answer, dear, Don't you hear?

”Coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!”

Birds that in the spring-time thrilled his heart with joy, Flowers he loved to pick fortill h; Love may hide itself awhile, but love can never die

Heart be glad, The little lad Will call some day to thee: ”Father dear, ”Heaven is here, ”Coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!”

HENRY VAN dyke

THE BURNING OF THE ”GOLIATH”

(Owing to the excellent discipline which Captain Bourchier had established, and to the courage of the boys, only twelve lives were lost out of the crew of five hundred)

Let ive you an example of self-denial which comes from near home I will speak to you of what has been done by little boys of seven, of eight, of twelve, of thirteen;--little English boys, and English boys with very few advantages of birth; not brought up, as most of you are, in quiet, orderly homes, but taken from the London workhouses I will speak to you of what such little boys have done, not fifteen hundred, or even two hundred years ago, but last week--last Wednesday, on the river Tha of the little boys, nearly five hundred, ere taken from different workhouses in London, and put to school to be trained as sailors on board the shi+p which was called after the na-shi+p Goliath