out where our tastes lie, and then suit us with articles to our taste, of the best description, and to the best of your ability? If I wanted to teach a little savage child to wear shoes, and to get fond of wearing them, I should not get out of my own head the sort of shoes I thought he ought to wear, and force them on him, whether they fitted or not, because I might be sure, when my eye was off him, he would throw them away and run about barefoot: I should take the measure of his foot, and make him the best pair of shoes I could, both for make and quality. Francis. But you would have something else besides stories, wouldn't you? Henry. Certainly; information-we like that, too -about natural history, and manufacture, and every sort of science; nothing comes amiss that's true: this is to fill our heads; but if you want to touch our hearts, and turn us out with a taste for reading, give us stories that are true, or might be true, and let them be as good as you can make them. Con-de-scend'-ing-ly, with condescension, or the gracious manner of a superior to an inferior. For'-eign-er, strangers. C. Me'-di-cine (pronounced medsin). Sus-pi'-ci-ous, mistrustful. I. HEARTS ARE TRUMPS; OR, HOW TO WIN THE GAME WITH ALL THE HONOURS. HE busy seaport of Southampton is in a ferment. A famous Irish cavalry regiment is about to be embarked for the East Indies, where they are sorely wanted, for the Sepoy Mutiny is at its height. The transport which is to convey them is moored along-side the quay, and the quay side is filled with a crowd of women and children, who, on being apprized of the order that only a select number of them are to accompany the men, are filling the air with cries and lamentations. 2. Now the colonel of the regiment was brave as a lion. He bore himself with an iron front when before the enemy, and had a will of iron for the execution of what he believed to be his duty; but there was one soft side to his character, and that was where women and children were concerned, and the grief of these women and children was too much for him. 3. "Captain," said he, turning to the commander of the vessel, who was at his side, "would you have room in the ship for all these women and children?" Certainly, colonel, at a pinch; but it would be an ugly squeeze, you know." "And what would it cost to take them with us?" "A very considerable sum of money." 4. "Then I'll take them all with me at my own expense," said the colonel. "What! ALL!" exclaimed the captain. 'Every man jack of them," was the reply; is, every woman and child that cares to go." "But, colonel "that "Obey orders, sir; or," he added, in his drollest Irish manner, "faith, I'll hang ye up to your own. yard-arm, my boy." The captain shrugged his shoulders, and went away to make his preparations. 5. In an instant the news had spread like wildfire ; and the change it effected on the quay was like the transformation scene of a pantomime. Sobbing women altered their note and screamed with hysterical delight. Fathers, who had been kissing their babes for the last time, tossed them up in the air and caught them again for joy. One old crone knelt down, with her grandchildren all in a row, in the muddy street, to invoke blessings on "the colonel," and a buxom corporal's wife fairly flung herself into his arms and hugged him. 6. Nowhere else on this northern side of the sunny shores of the Mediterranean--nowhere, except in Ireland or among the Irish--would such a scene of frenzied excitement have been possible, as was now exhibited, when the good ship steamed down the Solent, amidst the wild hurrahs of its motley mass of passengers, and the sympathetic cheers of the spectators on shore. 7. Need it be said, that from this instant each one of those stalwart soldiers was bound heart and soul to his colonel, and that not one woman nor child was there on board that ship but would have cried "shame" on him had he not been ready to spend life and limb in his service! 8. Need it be said, that at that memorable moment when, with the "Pandies in dark serried masses before them, the colonel at the head of his regiment, pointing to the bloodstained murderers of Cawnpore, cried to his men, "Remember who murdered the women and children!" a terrible cry of "Remember the women and children "—a cry of recollection as well as vengeance-burst from their ranks, as like a thunderbolt they were launched into the living wall of steel before them, shattering it into ten thousand fragments! 9. After the action was over, the colonel trotted up to where his commander-in-chief was standing. "It has been a soldier's victory," said he. "Honour to whom honour is due! It is my brave boys, not I, who have won the day." "But it was you who first won your 'boys,' colonel," was the reply. "Depend upon it, Hearts are Trumps. You held all their hearts in your hand, so it is you who have won the game with all the honours." U. The transformation scene of a pantomime is where the scene is suddenly changed, through the action of machinery, to something entirely different; as, for instance, from a disturbance in a London street to a fairy palace, in which the fairies are to be seen with their gauzy spangled wings mounted on arches here and there, and their queen above them n a glory of coloured lights, Bengal fire, and so forth. A crone is properly one who utters a crooning or groaning noise, as witches were used to do when they uttered their incantations. Hence it came to mean any decrepit, crafty old woman. Buxom means easily bowed or bent; that is, brisk, lively, jolly. The Solent is the name of the western portion of the strait that intervenes between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of England. The Pandies is a term applied to the Hindu soldiers in the British army in India, otherwise called "sepoys," from an Indian word "sipalie," meaning "a soldier," and that again from sip, meaning a bow and arrow, the ordinary armament of an Indian soldier in old times. Cawnpore, a city of the Doab on the right bank of the Ganges, is the place where the monster Nana Sahib massacred the English women and children who had fallen into his hands during the mutiny. Hearts are trumps, etc. According to the rules of the game of whist, if one description of cards-say hearts-is "trumps," then a person who holds all the hearts in his hand is bound to win the game, and as he holds all the "honour cards"-that is, ace, king, queen, knave-he wins it "with all the honours." 1. Name any quiet games for indoors besides cards. 2. Mention adjectives derived from the words heart, soldier, victory, delight, child, duty. 3. Parse: "It is you who have won the game with all the honours." Ca'-val-ry, horse-soldiers. Col'-on-el (pronounced kernel), chief officer of a regiment. I Ex-claim'-ed, cried out. [fit. Hys-ter'-i-cal, in hysterics, a kind of Pan'-to-mime, a play in which actors mimic by gestures without speaking. Quay (pronounced key), a place by water, for ships to lade or unlade. Ser'-ri-ed, closed together. Stal'-wart, strong and brave, ENGLAND. YSLE of the ocean! Zion of the seas! breeze! [steep How beauteous, Albion, on thy lonely |