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September i, 1909. some lessons/' she said \ always called me 'Molly have lost the fast letter, my life." And the next time th Molly could play school many unrigs as me Otn lost that *t' I don't know they called her "Molly C to find it, for I just love pretty things for my < Boys and Girls. LITTLE JAMIE, There lived in a Scot< by name, who set his h m ntVl P r 1 liim ovrviivi IV/YVU 111111 UVai IJ him up grieved her exc< sented. As the boy left h ever you are, Jamie, whei get to acknowledge youi will kneel down every your prayers, no matter you or not." "Mother, I promise y soon he was on a ship be They had a good capta were religious men, no c he kneeled down to pray But on the return voya run away, their places w whom nroved to be a ve little Jamie kneeling dow tip to him, and, giving 1 said in a decided tone, "] Another seaman, who sometimes, was indignan cruelly treated, and told and he would give him was accepted, and the w< bestowed. Both then re swearing man said: "N< and, if he dares to touch dressing." The next night it can that it was quite unneces f\i cturK one/i in if he would only say his that nobody would obsei the friendly sailor saw without first kneeling d the spot, and, dragging 1 "Kneel down at once, sii to fight for you, and yo young rascal?" During the whole voys watched over the boy as every night saw that he 1 ers. Jamie was industric he studied his books. H rigging, and, when he b< ing latitude and longitud Several years ago the called the Great Eastern and carried the famous < THE PRESBYTERIAN vhen she went home. "They Can't,' but now they say I I w.ant to be 'Molly Can' all le cousins were all together and sew and draw and do as er children. "I'm so glad I r what to do," she said when an." "I'm never going to try to have lessons and to make lolls/'?Hilda Richmond, in THE SAILOR BOY. :h village a little boy, Jamie eart on being a sailor. His r, and the thought of giving ?edingly, but she finally conome, she said to him : "Wherther on sea or land, never for ooa. rromise me tnat you night and morning, and say whether the sailors laugh at ou I will," said Jamie; and >und for India. in; and, as some of the sailors )ne laughed at the boy when ge, some of the sailors having ere supplied by others, one of ry bad fellow. When he saw rn to say his prayers he went nim a sound box on the ear, \Tone of that here, sir!" saw this, although he swore it that tire child should be so the bully to come up on deck a thrashing. The challenge ell-deserved beating was duly :turned to the cabin, and the )w, Jamie, say your prayers, you, I will give him another lie into the little boy's mind isary for him to create such a dien it could easily be avoided i prayers in his hammock, so rve it. But the moment that Jamie get into the hammock (own to pray, he hurried to tim out by the neck, he said: r! Do you think I am going u not say your prayers, you ige back to London the sailor if he had been his father, and knelt down and said his pray>us, and during his spare time e learned all about ropes and ;came old enoiich. ahruit tnlr. O ? **"" e. : largest steamer ever built, , was launched on the ocean, :able across the Atlantic. A % OF THE SOUTH. very reliable, experienced ca important undertaking, and 1 Jamie? When the Great Ea; after this successful voyage upon him the honour of kr now knows him as Sir Jame: NAMING T] "A long time ago, when 1 Grandfather Alden, "there u? vessels were built, very neai one year there was a ship Robin. Now you little pec was named for a bird." Doris, who was not quite she could not guess. Indeed, it was Vf?rv cillir tn MW v J utiij iv/ tl J W 11 would surely tell her; but Rc and was full of guesses. "He named her Robin so water," he ventured. "That would have been a isn't the right one," respond "1 will tell you the story, built, a bird began to build hi bow. The men worked ro and planked, but she did m came down into the shipys tell them about this nest, an up to see four little eggs ii day when the eggs hatched, robins, and in a few weeks ; her little family. "That verv wrrt- anntVior _ . j the starboard side, and rean The owner of the ship was ? up the planking till the la Then when the last small 1 finished, and was named Ro "What became of the ship "She sailed off across the i "and I have heard was alw she ought to be. because she who respected the rights evt "How did the mother rob asked Doris. * "Oh, I expect a little bird father, laughingly.?Alice T panion. BIBLE MOST PO The Bible is still much r other book. The Oxford Pre states, turns out 20,000 Bibl 40,000 sheets of gold are use' and 100,000 skins go into ( year. The British and For the Bible in 400 languages. /\merica s rule in the Phillip distributed there. Contrary Boxer insurrection in Chin; China last year was 428,000 Bible today is the most popu more copies are sold than of combined.?Westminster Gs II ptain was chosen for this who should it be but little stern returned to England Queen Victoria bestowed lighthood, and the world s Anderson. HE SHIP. was a little boy," began >ed to be shipyards, where my father's house. And > built there and named >ple can't guess why she five, owned at once that the thought to herself that en grandfather knew and jbert was two years older, she could fly through the very good reason, but it ed grandfather, smilingly. While the ship was being er nest well up toward the unci her nest, hammered ot mind. When children ird the carpenters would d I remember being lifted i it. Then there came a and there were four little iway flew the mother and bird built a nest over on ed four more young ones. ;o interested that he hung st one was hatched out. :>ird came the vessel was bin."' ?" questioned Robert. seas, replied grandfather, ays a fortunate vessel, as was built by a good man, in of a family of birds." in know about the ship?" I told her." replied grandCurtis in Youth's ComPULAR BOOK. nore in demand than any ss, the "Sunday at Home" es in a week. More than d in lettering the volumes, Oxford Bible covers each eign Bible Society prints During the first year of )pines, 10.700 Bibles were to expectations, since the i, tne issue of Bibles for copies. The fact is, the lar book in the world, and any other hundred books izette.