3. By reason, we can compare one fact with another, and so increase our knowledge. It was reason that led you to ask who made this nest. When you see hats, your reason teaches you there must have been a hatter; and when you saw this nest, you justly reasoned that there must have been a nest maker.

4. Reason has enabled men to make the rail road, and the rail cars, by which we rode out from the city yesterday. The skill of all the birds and bees, united with the strength of all the elephants and whales, could not make such machinery.

T. What is instinct?

F. Instinct is an impulse, or moving power, which God has given to animals without reason, which prompts them to do just those things which are needful and proper for their own support, and for the comfort of their offspring. They often do things without knowing what they are for. Some insects provide food in the fall, for their young which are not hatched till spring, and they never live to see them.

5. Whatever is done by instinct, is done perfectly at the first trial. No improvement is afterward made, and there is no need of All the skillful mechanics and wise philosophers in the world, could not make honey comb out of the yellow dust of flowers, so well as the bees in the hive.

any.

T. Then instinct enables animals to do a few things well, but does not help them to improve.

F. You are right. And reason helps us to do a great many things, and to go on improving as long as we live. But, reason does not always keep us from doing wrong.

6. "Reasoning at every step he treads,
Man oft mistakes his way;

While meaner things that instinct leads,
Are seldom known to stray."

QUESTIONS.-1. Are you satisfied to read words without knowing their meaning? 2. Do any other animals except man possess reason? 3. Will reason always teach us what is right? 4. Which is most liable to err, reason or instinct?

LESSON XII.

Spell and Define-1. TIT' TLE, a small particle; a point. 2. BEAU' TI FI ED, adorned; embellished. 3. EX PRESS', to utter; to make known. 4. GRA' ZING, feeding on grass. 5. CRE A'TION, the world; the universe. 6. RE FLECT', to consider attentively; to think. 7. COM PARE', to examine together. 8. CON VE' NI ENCE, that which is suited to wants or necessity. 9. UN POUND' ED, having no limits. Will you repeat Rule II. before reading this piece?

WHAT GOD HAS MADE FOR THE COMFORT AND HAPPINESS OF HIS CREATURES.

1. Ir every living thing, and every shrub, and flower, had written upon it, that Goa is good, and wise, and powerful; his goodness, his wisdom, and his power, would not be a ittle plainer to be seen, than they are now.

2. What is the whole world, but a place chat God has made, and fitted up, as a dwell

ing place for his creatures?

Look on the

right hand and on the left, and you will see that every thing is intended to add to their happiness.

3. How sweet and balmy is the air that we breathe! How fair is the blue sky, hung with clouds! How grateful to the sight is the color of the trees and the grass! I have not words to express the glory and the beauty of the sun, the moon, and the stars.

4. It is hard to say which are the happiest, the birds winging their way through the air, the fish gliding through the waters, the insects sporting in the sun, or the cattle peacefully grazing on a thousand, hills. All are formed according to their different natures, and all their wants richly provided for.

5. Though the creation is fitted for the comfort and enjoyment of bird and beast, of fish and creeping things; yet it is more particularly suited to the comfort and happiness of man. Man can not fly like the bird, nor swim as well as the fish; but he has the gift of reason, which is of far greater value. With this he can reflect, understand, compare, and contrive.

6. Reason renders him stronger than the elephant, and swifter than the eagle; nay, he is more than a match for any other thing that has life. With this gift of reason, man increases in knowledge, and greatly adds to his happiness.

7. Almost every kind of living creature contributes to his food, his clothing, his convenience, or his pleasure. The trees yield him their fruits, the flowers spread before him their beauty and fragrance; the sea gives up its pearls, and the earth its metals; the winds and the waves in a degree obey him, and he is acknowledged ruler among created things.

QUESTIONS.-1. What is creation fitted for? 2. What does reason do for man? 3. How does almost every thing contribute to our comfort?

LESSON XIII.

Spell and Define-1. AU' DI ENCE, interview; hearers. 2. EM BAS' SA DORS, public ministers. 3. AF'RI CAN, a native of Africa; a colored man. 4. SAV' AGE, wild; cruel. 5. CON' STANT LY, (LY, like.) continually; invariably. 6. GUARD' I AN, one who has the care of another. 7. Vi'CIOUS, addicted to vice; wicked.

In reading this piece be careful to observe Rule X.

THE EASTERN PRINCE AND THE LION.

1. A STORY is told of an eastern king who, on a certain day, was giving audience to several embassadors from different countries, when he saw an African come in, leading a large and powerful lion by a slender chain. He approached the king, and told him he had brought him a present, which he hoped he would receive.

2. The king was very much pleased, and when he saw that a beast so savage and dangerous, was as gentle as a lamb, and did not offer to hurt any one, or even to escape, he