chines, which were much more useful, and which therefore he liked better.

"Well?-Let us go on, Godfrey, to the other nine drawers," said Rosamond.

* The history of the other nine drawers of the India Cabinet has not yet been found.

THE

SILVER CUP.

WHEN Rosamond, Laura, and Godfrey, were travelling home with their father and mother, they began to talk of the different people they had lately seen; to describe them, and to tell which of them they liked or disliked.

"Godfrey, pray what sort of a man is Orlando's schoolmaster?" said Rosamond.

"I do not know well," said Godfrey, "for I only just saw him for a minute; papa stayed talking with him a great while, but I went off to the playground, because I wanted to see the boys playing at ball."

thing of Orlando's schoolmaster," said Laura, "for I wished to know how you liked him."

"That I can tell you at once," said Godfrey-" To save trouble, I don't like him at all."

"I do not see how that will save trouble," said Laura.

"It does save trouble," replied Godfrey; it saves the trouble of long explanations-You, Laura, always ask WHY one likes, and WHY one does not like a person!"

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So much the better! Laura is very right-Now is not she, mother?" cried Rosamond, starting forward from the corner where she sat.

You need not disturb my mother about it," said Godfrey; "do not you see, that she is busy reading her letters ?"

"I'll ask my father, then," said Rosamond, springing up and stepping across to where her father was sitting reading the newspaper; but a sudden motion of the carriage threw her forward, and she fell with her nose upon her father's knee. Her father, putting aside his newspaper, helped her up, and advised her never to stand in a carriage, without holding by something. Then he went on reading the newspaper; and Rosamond, not liking to interrupt him more, retired back to her corner, whilst Godfrey laughed, and said—

"Rosamond, you have not gained much by that motion."

But Rosamond, knowing that she was, as she said, "for once, in the right;" and perceiving by Laura's coun tenance, that Laura was of the same

her reason.

She brought the example

of her own past folly, in support of her present wisdom; and gave Godfrey an account of her "foolish antipathy, that is, dislike at first sight, without reason, to poor, dear, good Mrs. Egerton;" and repeated, pretty correctly, all that her mother had said to her upon that occasion.

"And now, Godfrey," concluded she, "only do consider how much I was mistaken; and how much I should have lost what a quantity of pleasure -if I had not gone with mamma to see Mrs. Egerton. At first, do you know, I wished very much not to go, and begged mamma would not take me with her; but when mamma advised me to try to find out WHY I disliked her

"Her!" interrupted Godfrey. "Did you dislike, mamma?"