WELL, children, I suppose you have all read the First and Second Part of the Moral Instructor?

Now I want to ask you a few questions about them.

Do you think you have become better children by reading them?

Do you love and obey your father and mother better than you did before?

Have you learnt to be gentle and kind to animals?

Are you more ready to forgive your broth

ers and sisters, or your playmates, than before you read them?

Do you always remember that God hears and sees you?

If you have profited by these lessons, and others which you have learnt in that book, I think this Third Part will also be useful to you; for I am going to teach you some more good lessons of the same kind.

The object of this book is to teach you to read.

But that is not all.

It is intended to teach you something more valuable than reading-to teach you to be good.

You will find a great many stories about boys and girls in this book.

Some of them are good children, and some of them are naughty children.

I tell you about good children, that you may see how their goodness makes them beloved and happy.

I hope you will try to be like them.

I tell you about naughty children, to show you how hateful their conduct is, and how unhappy it makes them.

I hope you will try hard to act very differently from them.

Now look at the print at the beginning of this lesson.

That is a little boy, whose father has just bought him a book like this.

He is sitting on the grass, in the yard, looking over the book.

He is going to carry it to school, to-mor

All the boys in his class have got books just like it.

QUESTIONS TO BE PUT BY THE TEACHER.

Describe the picture. If not done very minutely, ask questions like the following: What is the boy doing? What is he sitting on? What is that at his right foot? In which hand does he hold his book? Do you see his right hand? What part of his left hand do you see? How many buttons on his clothes? What book is he reading? Where did he get it? What will he do with it to-morrow. Give out words from the lesson, to be spelled by the class, and repeat this spelling exercise at the end of every lesson.

1. Do you see these three boys driving hoop?

2. The name of the largest is John Elton. 3. That is his brother James behind him. 4. The name of the other little boy is Frank Turner.

5. Frank is cousin to the two Elton boys. 6. He does not live in the same town.

7. He lives in another town in the same county.

8. He has come to visit his cousins, John and James.

9. John and James are pretty good boys.

10. But their cousin Frank has a great fault. I think it may be called one of the greatest of all faults, for it leads children into all manner of wickedness...

11. Do you know what this fault is? It is lying.

12. This morning Frank was in his uncle's room alone.

13. There was a writing desk on the table, with an inkstand in it.

14. Now all the boys had been told not to meddle with it, for fear they should spill some of the ink on their clothes, or on the floor.

15. But Frank thought there was no danger of his spilling the ink.

16. So he took it out of its place in the desk to look at it.

17. When boys are good, they are not easily startled or frightened.

18. But when they do any thing wrong, they are easily startled.

19. And so it was with Frank.

20. For the cat happening to jump from the bed to the floor, he was startled, and let the ink fall.

21. Oh! what shall I do now? thought he.

22. I have nothing to wipe it up with, and if I go and tell any body, they will know that I did it.

23. I had better be off, and say nothing

about it.

24. Perhaps they will think that it was the cat that threw it down.

25. But, at all events, they will not know it was me.

26. Oh! foolish Frank! Don't you know that God sees you, and that he knows all the wicked plans you are contriving?

27. No. Frank never thought of this, or he would not have disobeyed his uncle, and then it would not have been necessary to have contrived ways to deceive him.

QUESTIONS BY THE TEACHER.

Let the pupils describe the picture very minutely, naming the boys at play, mentioning the dog barking at the little boy and his hoop, the wagoner whipping the horses, the woods, the fence, the man on horseback, the road, the tree in the foreground, &c. Then let them tell what they have read, eliciting it by questions, if necessary. Why was Frank so easily startled? Was it right for him to touch the inkstand? Why not? Would it have been wrong, if the ink had not been spilt? Which was worst, lifting up the inkstand, or letting it fall? Did Frank do right or wrong after the ink was spilled? What

ought he to have done? Is it ever right to deceive? Is it sinful to contrive how to deceive? Can we deceive God or not? Does he see all that we do? Does he know all that we contrive? Does one sin generally lead to another? What sin led Frank to contrive deceit ? What does the Bible say about deceit ? "He that worketh de