All the boys in his class have got wooks just like it.

QUESTIONS TO BE PUT BY THE TEACHER.

Describe the picture. If not done very minutely, ask questions like the following: What is the boy doing? What is he sitting on? What is that at his right foot? In which hand does he hold his book? Do you see his right hand? What part of his left hand do you see? How many buttons on his clothes? What book is he

reading? Where did he get it? What will he do with. it to-morrow. Give out words from the lesson, to be spelled by the class, and repeat this spelling exercise at the end of every lesson.

1. Do you see these three,boys driving hoop?

2. The name of the largest is John Elton. 3. That is his brother James behind him. 4. The name of the other little boy is Frank Turner.

5. Frank is cousin to the two Elton boys. 6. He does not live in the same town.

7. He lives in another town in the samè county.

-8. He has come to visit his cousins, John and James.

9. John and James are pretty good boys.

10. But their cousin Frank has a great fault. I think it may be called one of the greatest of all faults, for it leads children into all manner of wickedness.

11. Do you know what this fault is? It is lying.

12. This morning Frank was in his uncle's room alone.

13. There was a writing desk on the table, with an inkstand in it.

14. Now all the boys had been told not to meddle with it, for fear they should spill some of the ink on their clothes, or on the floor.

15. But Frank thought there was no danger of his spilling the ink.

16. So he took it out of its place in the desk to look at it.

17. When boys are good, they are not easily startled or frightened.

18. But when they do any thing wrong, they are easily startled.

19. And so it was with Frank.

20. For the cat happening to jump from the bed to the floor, he was startled, and let the ink fall.

21. Oh! what shall I do now? thought he.

22. I have nothing to wipe it up with, and if I go and tell any body, they will know that I did it.

23. I had better be off, and say nothing about it.

24. Perhaps they will think that it was the cat that threw it down.

25. But, at all events, they will not know it was me.

26. Oh! foolish Frank! Don't you know that God sees you, and that he knows all the wicked plans you are contriving?

27. No. Frank never thought of this, or he would not have disobeyed his uncle, and then it would not have been necessary to have contrived ways to deceive him.

QUESTIONS BY THE TEACHER.

Let the pupils describe the picture very minutely, naming the boys at play, mentioning the dog barking at the little boy and his hoop, the wagoner whipping the horses, the woods, the fence, the man on horseback, the road, the tree in the foreground, &c. Then let them tell what they have read, eliciting it by questions, if necessary. Why was Frank so easily startled? Was it right for him to touch the inkstand? Why not? Would it have been wrong, if the ink had not been spilt ? Which was worst,

What

lifting up the inkstand, or letting it fall? Did Frank do right or wrong after the ink was spilled? ought he to have done? Is it ever right to deceive? Is it sinful to contrive how to deceive? Can we deceive God or not? Does he see all that we do? Does he know all that we contrive? Does one sin generally lead to another? What sin led Frank to contrive deceit ? What does the Bible say about deceit ? "He that worketh de

ceit, shall not dwell within my [God's] house; he that telleth lies, shall not tarry in my sight." Ps. ci. 7.

LESSON III.

Lying.

[As this Lesson is connected with the preceding one, one of the pupils should be required to repeat the substance of Lesson II. before the class commences to read the following.]

28. As soon as Frank had contrived how he should deceive his uncle, he went down stairs as softly as he could.

29. He went into the parlor, but nobody was there.

30. Frank then went back into the kitchen, where he found his aunt cooking dinner. 31. "Do you know where the boys are?" said he.

32. They have just been looking for you," said his aunt. "I suppose they are in the yard. Was it you that came down stairs just now?"

33. Frank was frightened at this question. He was at a loss what to answer. If he told the truth, he was afraid that his aunt would know that he had spilt the ink.

34. So at last he said, "No."

35. Frank felt his cheek burn with blushes as he told this lie. For he was not a hardened liar. His chief fault was, that he had not the courage to confess that he had done

wrong.

36. My dear readers, I hope, will act differently from Frank.

37. I hope they will try not to do wrong at all.

38. But if ever they should be disobedient, or do any thing that is wrong, let me beg of them instantly to confess the fault to their parents, and not to try to hide it, for this will only be adding sin to sin.

39. Well, Frank now went out to seek his cousins, feeling badly enough, I can assure you.

40. He felt much worse than if he had been whipt, for the pain of that is soon over. . 41. But poor Frank had been in trouble ever since he touched the ink-pot, and he did not know when his trouble would end; how many more lies he would have to tell to hide the first.

42. One lie almost always leads to many. 43. As Frank opened the door, he saw his two cousins, each with a hoop in his hand, going out to the road.

44. Come, Frank," cried John; "get your hoop, and let us have a run."

45. So Frank took his hoop, and they be-' gan to play.

46. You can see them in the picture, at the beginning of the last lesson.

47. But, somehow or other, Frank could not enjoy his play as he used to do.

48. He was very fond of driving hoop; but the thought of the lie that he had told, and