Q. Now my little children, as we have been talking about king Solomon, suppose we talk about our own king; so let me ask you his name?  A. King William the Fourth.[A] Q. Why is he called king?  A. Because he is the head man, and the governor of the nation.  Q. What does governor mean?  A. One that governs the people, the same as you govern and manage us.  Q. Why does the king wear a crown on his head?  A. To denote that he governs from a principle of wisdom, proceeding from love.  Q. Why does he hold a sceptre in his hand?  A. To denote that he is powerful, and that he governs from a principle of truth.  Q. What is a crown?  A. A thing made of gold overlaid with a number of diamonds and precious stones, which are very scarce?  Q. What is a sceptre?  A. A thing made of gold, and something like an officer’s staff.  Q. What is an officer?  A. A person who acts in the king’s name; and there are various sorts of officers, naval officers, military officers, and civil officers.  Q. What is a naval officer?  A. A person who governs the sailors, and tells them what to do.  Q. What is a military officer?  A. A person who governs the soldiers, and tells them what to do.  Q. What does a naval officer and his sailors do?  A. Defend us from our enemies on the sea.  Q. What does a military officer and his soldiers do?  A. Defend us from our enemies on land.  Q. Who do you call enemies?  A. Persons that wish to hurt us and do us harm.  Q. What does a civil officer do?  A. Defend us from our enemies at home.  Q. What do you mean by enemies at home?  A. Thieves, and all bad men and women.  Q. Have we any other enemies besides these?  A. Yes, the enemies of our own household, as we may read in the Bible, and they are the worst of all.  Q. What do you mean by the enemies of our own household?  A. Our bad thoughts and bad inclinations.  Q. Who protects and defends us from these?  A. Almighty God.  Q. Are there any other kind of officers besides these we have mentioned?  A. Yes, a great many more, such as the king’s ministers, the noblemen and gentlemen in both houses of parliament, and the judges of the land.  Q. What do the king’s ministers do?  A. Give the king advice when he wants it.  Q. And what do the noblemen and gentlemen do in both houses of parliament?  A. Make laws to govern us, protect us, and make us happy.  Q. After they have made the laws, who do they take them to?  A. To the king.  Q. What do they take them to the king for?  A. To ask him if he will be pleased to approve of them.  Q. What are laws?  A. Good rules for the people to go by, the same as we have rules in our school to go by.  Q. Suppose the people break these good rules, what is the consequence?  A. They are taken before the judges, and afterwards sent to prison.  Q. Who takes them before the judge?  A. A constable, and afterwards he takes them to prison, and there they are locked up and punished.  Q. Ought we to love the king?  A. Yes, and respect his officers.  Q. Do you suppose the king ever