2. Her little playmates never think of going to play without asking Ellen to go with them.

3. She is always glad to help them when they need any help in their work;

and when they go to play, she always goes with them when she has time.

4. Sometimes, when she is very busy helping her mother, she tells her playmates that she cannot go with them.

5. When Ellen has any fruit or cakes,

she shares them with her brothers and sisters.

6. She always tries to make her brothers and sisters happy.

7. When the little girls try to dress their dolls, Ellen is always ready to show them how and help them.

8. When her playmates make a mistake, she does not laugh at them, to make them feel bad.

9. She does not quarrel with her brothers and sisters when they forget themselves and become angry with her.

10. She waits until they speak to her kindly again, and tries to forget that they were angry with her.

11. Ellen's older brothers and sisters love her dearly, and they are very kind to her.

12. They are always careful to do whatever they think will make her most happy.

13. Little Ellen is not only glad to please her brothers and sisters, but she is

glad-and always ready, also-to do any work that her parents may have for her to do.

14. She is happiest when she is helping some one else.

1. Glad to see you, little bird!

'Twas your pretty chirp I heard:
What did you intend to say-
"Give me something this cold day"?

2. That I will, and plenty too:
All these crumbs I saved for you.
Don't be frightened: here's a treat;
I shall wait to see you eat.

3. Thomas says you steal his wheat; John complains his plums you eat

Choose the ripest for your share,
Never asking whose they are.

4. Yet you seem an honest bird: Don't be vexed at what I've heard. Now no pears or plums you eat, Now you cannot steal the wheat.

5. So I will not try to know
What you did so long ago.
There's your breakfast: eat away!
Come to see me every day.

LANGUAGE LESSON.

Write 'Twas in full.

Write in full Don't and here's a treat.

Write in full I've heard.

Write in full There's your breakfast.

Write a sentence containing the word choose; also one

containing the word chose.

Write a sentence containing the word seem; also one containing the word seam.

Write a sentence containing the word eat; also one containing the word ate.

1. Last night the little snowflakes began to float softly down like a great flock of little white birds.

2. Faster and faster they came all the night long, and now a thick white carpet of snow covers the ground.

3. Sleighs have been darting swiftly by all the morning, and now we too are ready to take a ride.

4. "All ready!" says papa; and off we start for a good time.

5. What a bright morning it is! See how the people come to the windows to look at us as we pass !

6. See how fast our horse goes, and