“Felix,” said his mother, as they took their seats, “you may sit by the window; but you must not put your head or your arms out of it.”

Before she could explain to him her reasons for saying this, a friend who had come in drew off her attention, by talking to her; so that she forgot to explain to Felix why she did not wish to have him put his head or arms out of the window.

In the seat just before him, Felix saw a large boy, who kept putting his head out, although the boy’s mother kept telling him not to do it.  By and by the cars rushed by a post, which stood so near the track that it almost grazed the boy’s head.  He started back in a great fright, losing his hat as he did so.  He had a very narrow escape.

Felix now saw why his mother had given him the caution she had.  He took her hand in his, and looked up in her face.  She smiled on him; for she knew what was passing in his mind.

“Yes, Felix,” said she:  “if you had not loved your mother too much to wound her by disobedience, you might have lost your life.”

Uncle Charles.

FROWING AWAY ONE.

I know three little girls who are sisters.  Of course, they ought to love each other dearly.  When they stand up, they are like a flight of three steps:  baby is the lowest; Mattie is the middle step; and Susie is the upper step, because she is tallest.

The baby is four years old, I know:  so I guess that Mattie is almost six, and Susie a little more than seven.

No two of you little people love each other more dearly than Mattie and baby love each other.  Where one is, the other always wants to be.  They sit and walk with their arms around each other.  It is pleasant to see them.

They both dearly love Susie too; but she is bigger, and doesn’t seem to belong quite so much to them as they seem to belong to each other.

One day their mamma was looking at them; and, thinking aloud, she said, “Three little girls!  What shall I do with so many?  Don’t you think I have too many?”

Then baby looked earnestly into her mother’s face, and said, “O, mamma! if you must frow one away, do frow away Susie.”

Never you fear, little people, that Susie will be “frowed” away.  Her mamma has not one too many, though she has three little girls.

E.M.S.

HUNTING FOR EASTER-EGGS.

The Easter-egg is a painted or colored egg used for a present at Easter, a day which occurs on Sunday, the second day after Good-Friday.

The term “Easter” is said to be derived from a Saxon word meaning rising; and Easter is a festival of the Christian Church to commemorate the resurrection.

In the picture, the children are hunting for Easter-eggs, which the good mother has hidden in different parts of the room.  The child who finds the most eggs will have the pleasure of making presents of them to whom he or she may choose.