ed merry games; and
Eddy had his share of all the fun. When he went to bed, his Aunt Susan
asked him whether he had had a good time.

"Splendid!" said Eddy.

"How did you like being thrown into the puddle?" said Aunt Susan.

"First rate!" said Eddy.

"Did you think it good fun to dive into the barrel?"

"Jolly!" said the little rogue. "I'd like to do it again."

M. F. BURLINGAME.

BENNY'S ARITHMETIC LESSON.

LITTLE BENNY has just begun to go to school.

Some boys as young and active as he is would rather play all day long
than to spend part of the time in the school-room; but he seems to like
it.

Almost every day he comes running home, saying, "I've learned something
more to-day;" and, after he has told us about it, we send him out of
doors with his little cousins, who live close by.

We know that all work and no play would make Benny a dull boy.

To-day he felt very proud, because he had been learning to add. He said
that he could say the first table.

I told him to begin, and I would tell him if he was right.

So he began; and this is the way it went on:--

BENNY.--One and one are two.
MAMMA.--That is very true.
BENNY.--Two and one are three.
MAMMA.--Nought could better be.
BENNY.--Four and one are five.
MAMMA.--True as I'm alive.
BENNY.--Five and one are six.
MAMMA.--That's a pretty fix.
BENNY.--Six and one are seven.
MAMMA.--Thought you'd say eleven.
BENNY.--Seven and one are eight.
MAMMA.--Bless your curly pate!
BENNY.--Eight and one are nine.
MAMMA.--Why, how very fine!
BENNY.--Nine and one are ten.
MAMMA.--Pretty good for Ben.

We had a good hearty laugh when we got through; for Benny's earnest way
of reciting pleased me, and he enjoyed the emphatic manner in which I
replied to his additions. How many of the little "Nursery" boys can say
the table that Benny did?

C. H.

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GRANDPA'S BOOTS.

HOW the stars did snap that December night! The moon was up too; and how
cold and white she looked!

And how busy Jack Frost was! No one saw him swing a hammer; no one heard
him drive a nail: but, by the time morning had come, he had laid right
across the ponds and the river a floor of ice smoother than any wooden
floor ever put down by th