Name the countries of which the tea plant is a native.

What kind of a tree is it? What sort of bark has it? What plant grown in this country does it resemble? Describe the shape and colour of the leaves. What colour are the flowers, and where are they placed? Where does the plant grow in China? What ground is best suited for it? How many times a year are the leaves gathered? When is the first gathering? When is the second! When does the third and last take place? Which gathering of the leaves is the most valuable? what two sorts is the tea used in this country divided? How is black tea made? How is green? In what other part of the world is tea now grown? What sort of tea is produced there? How many years ago is it since tea was unknown in this country? How long has it been

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used in China? What nation first brought it to Europe? How much per ounce was given for some for a present to Charles the Second? What was the price per pound for many years afterwards? How much is imported into this country annually?

GUSTAVUS III. AND THE POOR GIRL.

1. There was a good King of Sweden called Gustavus the Third, who died in 1792, after a reign of twenty-one years. One morning he was riding through a village near Stockholm, the capital of his kingdom. Seeing a young girl at a fountain getting water, he asked her for the favour of a drink. Without knowing who was addressing her, she stepped forward, and lifted her pitcher to his lips.

2. The ready kindness of the girl, her artless manner, and her poor appearance, drew the king's heart towards her. He told her if she would come to live in the city, he would place her in a more agreeable and comfortable position in life.

3. "Ah! good sir," answered the girl, "I am not anxious to forsake the position in which Providence has placed me; and even if I were, I would not leave my home to accept your offer."

"And why not?" replied the king, with some surprise.

4. "Because," said the girl, "my mother is poor and sickly, and I am the only one she has to take care

of her, and comfort her. Nothing that could be offered would induce me to leave her."

"Your mother," replied the king, "and where is she?"

"In this little cabin," was the reply, the girl at the same time pointing to a very humble dwelling close at hand.

5. Gustavus descended from his horse, and went with the girl into the cabin to see her mother. There he found her lying upon a bed of straw. She was aged and sinking under her infirmities. His kind heart was moved, and he said to the woman, "I feel very sorry, mother, to find you so destitute and afflicted."

6. "Yes, dear sir, I am poor and sick," she replied in a feeble tone, "and should be distressed indeed, but for the affectionate attention of my dear daughter, who labours and strives to support and comfort me, and omits no effort for my relief. May God remember it to her for her good," she added, as her hand wiped away the tears which now rolled down her cheeks.

7. The good king was deeply affected. Then handing the daughter a purse of gold, and directing the poor family to a better house, he said to the girl, "Still, my young friend, go on taking the same care of your mother, and you shall not fail to have my help. Trust my word. I am your king. Good bye."

8. On reaching his home Gustavus made provision to have a sum of money regularly paid to the woman as long as she might live; and when her death oc

curred, he remembered the daughter with a rich en

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What was the name of the good king of Sweden? When did he die? How long did he reign? Whom did he see one day at a fountain in a village near Stockholm? What favour did he ask of the girl? How did she grant it? What was it that drew the king's heart towards her? What offer did he make to her? How did she reply? Where did the girl's mother live? When the king saw her what did he say to her? How did she reply to him? Why was the king deeply affected? What did he give to the girl? How did he encourage the girl further? How did the king make provision for the mother? How did he afterwards provide for the girl?

DO SOMETHING.

1. If the world seems cold to you,
Kindle fires to warm it!

Let their comfort hide from view
Winters that deform it.
Hearts as frozen as your own,
To that radiance gather;
You will soon forget to moan,

"Ah, the cheerless weather!"

2. If the world's "a wilderness,"
Go, build houses in it!
Will it help your loneliness,
On the winds to din it?
Raise a hut, however slight;
Weeds and brambles smother,
And to roof and meal invite
Some forlorner brother.

3. If the world's a "vale of tears,"
Smile, till rainbows span it;
Breathe the love that life endears;
Clear from clouds to fan it.
Of your gladness lend a gleam,
Unto souls that shiver;

Show them how dark sorrow's stream
Blends with hope's bright river!