last destroy us all? Crush, then, this poor innocent child and me, in return for the services that my husband has done you!" While she was making these passionate exclamations, the elephant approached the place where the little infant lay, but, instead of trampling upon him, he stopped short, and looked at him with earnestness, as if he had been sensible of shame and confusion; and, his fury from that instant abating, he suffered himself to be led without opposition to his stable." Tommy thanked Mr Barlow for these two stories, and promised for the future to use more discretion in his kindness to animals. The next day Tommy and Harry went into the garden to sow the wheat which Harry had brought with him, upon a bed which Tommy had dug for that purpose. While they were at work, Tommy said, "Pray, Harry, did you ever hear the story of the men that were obliged to live six years upon that terrible cold country (I forget the name of it), where there is nothing but snow and ice, and scarcely any other animals, but great bears, that are ready to eat men up?" _Harry._--Yes, I have. _T._--And did not the very thoughts of it frighten you dreadfully? _H._--No; I cannot say they did. _T._--Why, should you like to live in such a country? _H._--No, certainly; I am very happy that I was born in such a country as this, where the weather is scarcely ever too hot or too cold; but a man must bear patiently whatever is his lot in this world. _T._--That is true. But should you not cry, and be very much afflicted, if you were left upon such a country? _H._--I should certainly be very sorry if I was left there alone, more especially as I am not big enough, or strong enough, to defend myself against such fierce animals; but the crying would do me no good; it would be better to do something, and endeavour to help myself. _T._--Indeed I think it would; but what could you do? _H._--Why, I should endeavour to build myself a house, if I could find myself materials. _T._--And what materials is a house made of? I thought it had been impossible to make a house without having a great many people of different trades, such as carpenters and bricklayers. _H._--You know there are houses of different sizes. The houses that the poor people live in are very different from your father's house. _T._--Yes, they are little, nasty, dirty, disagreeable places; I should not like to live in them at all. _H._--And yet the poor are in general as strong and healthy as the rich. But if you could have no other, you would rather live in one of them than be exposed to the weather? _T._--Yes, certainly. And how would you make one of them? _H._--If I could get any wood, and had a hatchet, I would cut down some branches of trees, and stick them upright in the ground, near to each other. _T._--And what then? _H._--I would then get some other branches, but more full of small wood; and these I would interweave between them, just as we make hurdles to confine the sheep; and then, as that might not be