Dance;" Pambadi, "Snake's Dance;" Kolitottam, "Fowl Garden;" Aneikadu, "Elephant Forest ;" and Kiliur, "Parrot Village." The town of Calicut, from which cotton cloth is called calico, has a very trivial meaning, being simply Korikudu, "Fowl's Nest."

In like manner we have Primrose Hill, Box Moor, The Cedars, Ivy Bridge, Oakley, and Oxford, Otterton, Foxham, and others.

In India localities are often named after the class of persons who formerly or at present reside in them. Accordingly, Vannanvilei means “Washerman's Field ;" Pareicheri or Parcherry, "Pariau's Street;" Ideiyankudi, "Shepherd's Dwelling;" Pitcheikudiyiruppu, "Beggar's Dwelling-place;" and Tattanvilei, Goldsmith's Field."

The Hindus frequently indulge in fanciful and poetical names for their villages, which are sometimes strikingly inconsistent with the matter-of-fact or miserable appearance of the places themselves. Butter and milk are frequently referred to, probably as emblems of fertility and prosperity. Such are Palur, "Milk Village;" Palar, “Milk River;" Neyoor, "Butter Village;" Neyattankarei, “The Bank of the Butter River." One village which I have often visited is called Chandramangalam, "Moon's Rejoicing," evidently a mere poetical compound.

You will observe that many of these names are very long; I hope I have not frightened you with such a number of them. I am sorry I cannot explain in writing. how they should be pronounced. Several weeks or

months would be required to learn the proper pronunciation of Tamil; but of course, to the missionaries and others who have studied the language, these words are quite as easy as our longest English words. Others, longer still, are by no means difficult to pronounce. Here are one or two of the longest to finish up, and they are names of places I know well, viz. :-Kodumbakottukonam, Koleishegaramangalam, Chinnamartandapoo-tentorei.

CUTTING THE SUGAR-CANE

HE island of Jamaica, where the sweet

sugar-cane has been so long and so largely cultivated, was for long years the place of bitter bondage, where few of the sweets of honest labour could be enjoyed. English children had abundant reason to say with thankful hearts, as they thought of Jamaica and its sugar plantations,

"I was not born a little slave

To labour in the sun,

And wish I were but in my grave,

And all my labour done."

But this slavery is a thing of the past, and Jamaica rejoices. in its free people and its beautiful scenery. In the more. cultivated districts, as viewed from any lofty hill, the scene is lively and animating beyond description. The negroes are employed in the fiolds outting canes or weeding pastures. Numerous herds of oxen, with other domestic animals, graze in the fields, or browse on the verdant slopes and endless diversity of hill, valley, and mountain, with clusters of

bamboo cane and towering palm trees gracefully waying their feathery plumes in the breeze; and wide-stretching fields of sugar-cane diversify and adorn the landscape, and all combine to make a scene of brightness and beauty on which the eye loves to gaze.

The simple faith and earnest piety of many of these natives seem remarkable. A negro convert, who had long been praying for the return of a missionary who had gone to England, when he came back, seized his hand, and said,

Now, massa, me know dat God Him true. Him hear for ine prayer, but Him take Him own time, and Him work Him own way, but Him do ebery ting quite good." Another said, Massa, me hear you come, and me hungry to see you, and to see you me take two day for walk for see you, and now me believe God. Him too good; me now willing to die, for now me know me God Him true."

DOWN,

BOY I know owns a big dog named Hero. He is very fond of his dog, and romps with it a good deal. This makes the dog take liberties with him, such as putting his great paws upon his shoulders, pushing him down and rolling over him. Sometimes Hero wants to play when his young master wishes to study or work. Then the boy speaks in a tone of command, and says:

"Down, Hero! down, sir!" Poor Hero obeys and slinks away with his drooping tail into his house. Now I know another who does not own a big dog like Hero, but he has a little, ugly, furious cur which frowns, and snarls, and bites,

TEMPER !

and its owner has no control over it at all. What do you think is the name of the cur? Temper!

Now if this latter boy was wise he would bring his cur under control. He would say. "Down, Temper, down!" whenever it began to growl. He would bring it under discipline until it would obey him as Hero does the other boy. It is true Temper has been master so long, it would cost some trouble at first to subdue it; but if the boy would pray hard, and ther be resolute in saying, "Down," he would soon master it. God and a praying boy can conquer any temper that rages in a. child's bosom.

issionary Enigma.

The month in which the Israelites came out of Egypt. One of the sons of Jacob.

The place from whence Solomon got timber to build the Temple.

One of the antediluvian patriarchs, who foretold the second coming of Christ.

A captain of the guard, who carried away captive into Babylon seven hundred and forty-five Jews.

The mount on which Saul died.

A king who reigned over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces.

The place where Samuel lived, and where also he judged Israel.

A town in the half-tribe of Manasseh, north-west, on the Sea of Galilee.

One of the sons of Aaron, whose duty it was to minister in the priest's office.

A minor prophet, who foretold the destruction of Nineveh

One of David's mighty men.

The great-grandmother of David, King of Israel.

The initial letters will give the name of a zealous pioneer of the gospel, and an earnest labourer in the Patagonian Mission.

Chelmsford.

M. A. L.