Once more the voice of prayer and praise.

Let others scorn in prayer to kneel;

Like them, O may I never feel!

Though oft by thoughtless ones reviled,

Still would I be a praying child.


A poor Irishman advertised an old potato-pot for sale; his children gathered around him, and asked him why he parted with it. He replied, “Ah, my honeys, I would not be after parting with it but for a little money to buy something to put in it.”

The Sparrow and Robin;

A FABLE.