Nay, little girl! Nay, nay, don’t touch! Wait for a week—a week’s not much— Then come here, and see What there will be Hid in the nest of the robin. ------------------------------------ THE LITTLE GIRL WHO DIDN’T WANT HER BATH. ------------------ SOMEBODY shook and shivered, Somebody sobbed and cried, While the Sponge and the Soap stood waiting The nursery bath beside. [Illustration: “Come on, dearie! we’re all ready.”] Why should she wash this morning? Each day she said the same, And nurse, who was tired of the crying, Quite vexed with her became. Never a bit of washing Somebody got that day, And the evening fell, and her father came To have a game of play. Black was her face—he could not Its grimy surface kiss; At washing she never has grumbled, From that sad day to this. ------------------------------------ THE DIFFERENCE IN BIBLES. ------------------ LITTLE Mary wanted to learn her Sunday school lesson. It was Saturday afternoon, and the time was passing; but she had been busy with her dolls dress, and the lesson was yet unlearned. At length her elder sister took a Bible and said: “Come, Mary, I will help you to learn your lesson, and you can go back to your play.” Mary came to her sisters side ready to begin her lesson, when she suddenly began: “Sister, let us study it out of grandfather’s Bible.” “But what difference can it make?” “Why, grandfather’s Bible is so much more interesting than yours.” “O no, Mary, they are just the same, exactly.” “Well,” replied the observing child, “I really think grandfather’s must be more interesting than yours; he reads it so much more.” ------------------------------------ WORTHY OF A MEDAL. ------------------ SEVERAL years ago there were two seals in the “Zoo” garden at Amsterdam which were so fond of their keeper that they could recognize his voice a long way off, and would go to meet him. These seals also became attached to an old gentleman and his little granddaughter, who often went to see them in company with a little woolly dog, and who always took the seals something nice to eat. These animals were kept in a large pond, and they would come out of the water on seeing their friends and sit down with them to have a good time on the sand.