en,
Looked as fine as any queen.
Their reception numbered some
Of the best in Froggiedom.
Four gay froggies played the fiddle,--
Hands all round, and down the middle.

In the room were stern old croakers,
Yellow vests and snow-white chokers.
Froggie belles with rush-leaf fans,
Froggie beaux in green brogans,
Flirted in the bowers there,
Hidden from the ball-room's glare.
Three old froggies tried a reel,--
Twist 'em, turn 'em, toe and heel.

[Illustration]

One young miss was asked to sing;
But she had a cold that spring.
Little frogs were sound asleep,
Late hours--bad for them to keep.
Each one wished the couple joy;
No bad boys came to annoy.
This next fall,--the news is spreading,--
They will have their silver-wedding!

GEORGE COOPER.

[Illustration: THE FIRMAMENT SHEWETH HIS HANDYWORK]

FIRST LESSON IN ASTRONOMY.

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star:
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!"

I AM going to tell all the wondering children just what that little star
is, and I want them to go to the window this minute, and take a good
look at it.

Have you been? And was it "up above the world so high"? Some of you are
laughing at me, perhaps, because it is broad daylight, when stars do not
show themselves. But do not laugh yet. If the sun is out, you can
certainly see a star.

To be sure you cannot take a good look at it, it is so bright; but there
it is,--the star that gives us light and heat,--the sun himself. Now,
were you ever told before, that the sun is a star, just like the little
diamonds you see in the sky before you go to bed?

Why shouldn't it look like a star then? Because it is not "up above the
world so high" as all the rest of the stars are. It is near enough to us
to keep us warm, and make every thing grow.

But what is more wonderful than that our sun is a star, is, that all the
stars are suns. They keep the worlds that are near them warm and bright,
just as our sun does this world. They are great globes of fire that
never go out.

Some are red fire, some are blue, some yellow, and some white, like
ours. How should you like to have it