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Marooner’s Island. The third chapter of this story came to hand so late that we are compelled to omit a portion of it until next week. The story is steadily increasing in interest as it progresses. “Tales of a Great Traveler, No. 2,” will make our little readers laugh. It is accompanied by a capital illustration of the contest between the par rot and the monkey. Mrs. Ford’s beautiful story, “The Little Wo man in Green,” is completed in this number. We have rarely read a more charming fairy tale, or one conveying a better moral. Dramatized Fairy Tales. A lady contributor, who loves little children and has written a great deal for their amusement and instruction, sends us the first of a series of dramatized fairy tales, which we are sure will de light our little readers. The one in hand is a dra matized version of that old favorite of the nur sery, “Cinderella; or, the Little Glass Slipper.” We shall try to make room for it next week. To Correspondents. C. M. W., Eranklinton, N. C. —An anagram is the trans position of the letters of a word or sentence so as to form another word or sentence. The enigma you send is de fective, as you will see by looking it over again. One of the logogriphs we publish—the other is held over until you send us a fuller answer to it. Your answers to Puz zles in No. 1 are all correct. Jennie J., Houma, La. —Answers to charades, puzzles, Ac., must always accompany them, or we can never judge of their correctness. YAur answers to those in No. 1 are all correct. J. A. F., Savannah, Ga.—Your answers to puzzles in the first number are all right, We shall always be glad to hear from you. Ching and Chang. —There were two short sighted men who were always quarreling as to which of them could see best; and as they heard there was to be a tablet erected at the gate of a neighboring temple they determined they would visit it.together on a given day and put the visual powers of each to the test. But each desiring to take advantage of the other, Cliing went imme diately to the temple, and looking quite close to the tablet saw an inscription with the words, “To the great man of the past and the future.” Chang also went prying yet closer, and in addition to the inscription, “To the great man of the past and the future,” read from smaller characters, “This tablet was raised by the family of Ling in honor of the great man.” On the day appointed, stand ing at a distance from which neither could read, Ching exclaimed, “The inscription is, ‘To the great man of the past and the future.’ ” “ True,” said Chang, “ but yon have left out a part of the inscription, which I can read but you cannot, and which is written in small characters : ‘ Erected by the family of Ling in honor of the great man.’ ” “ There is no such inscription,” said Ching. “There is,” said Chang. So they waxed wroth, and, after abusing one another, agreed to refer the matter to the high-priest of the temple, lie heard their story, and quietly said, “ Gentlemen, there is no tablet to read; it was taken into the interior of the temple yesterday.” A Justifiable Doubt*— When the brave Cor poral Caithness was asked, after the battle of Waterloo, if he was not afraid, he replied — “Afraid! why, I was in a’ the battles of the Pe ninsula !’ ’ And having it explained that the ques tion related to a fear of losing the day : “ Na, na ; I did na fear that. I was only afraid we should be a’ killed before we had time to win it.” BURKE’S WEEKLY. Y.::' THE SAGACIOUS SQUIRREL. ANY years ago, an old hunter who lived near a small stream, was sur rAr wmsMi lß prised one morning to * discover that a colony of beavers had thrown a dam across it, and that the water had formed quite a lake in the valley above I f the dam. Near the centre of this lake stood a clump of tall trees, now of course surrounded by water. Among the tops of these trees he noticed a number of squirrels, leaping from branch to branch, evidently much disturbed at find ing themselves cut oft* from the land, as these animals do not take to water unless compelled to do so. While he stood looking at them he ob served all at once that they became great ly excited —passing from tree to tree — running down their trunks to the water, and then up again, and running out to the extremity of the limbs, as if they meant to leap into the water, and then galloping back again. He soon saw that this commotion was caused by a small lo<>* which had got into the stream above, and was now floating down the current in the direction of the little island. On came the log slowly ; but instead of drifting directly toward the island, it was borne by the current in a direction that would carry it at least twenty yards from the nearest trees. The squirrels had all gathered on that side, and were on the topmost branches watching the motions of the log. As soon as it reached the nearest point, the foremost squirrel made a leap into the air, and the next moment pounced upon the log. Then another and another followed, until the log was covered with the little creatures and floated off with its cargo. But there was one squirrel who had been too late, and had not escaped with the others, and he was running to and fro, in a frantic state, leaping from branch to branch, running down the tree to the edge of the water, and stopping to look hopelessly after his compan ions. At length he got into a tree whose bark was very rough ; in fact, crisped upward in great hard pieces or scales a foot long, which looked as if they were going to fall off. He began to run backward and forward around one of these large pieces of bark, and it was soon evident that he was trying to detach it from the tree. At length he was successful, and the piece of bark fell into the water. It had scarcely done so before the lit tle animal leaped upon it. There was no current where the bark fell, and the old hunter watched whether the bark would carry the squirrel out from the trees. — But he soon saw that Bunny knew what he was about. As soon as he had fairly balanced himself on his piece of bark, he hoisted his broad, bushy tail high up in the air, for a sail, the breeze caught it, and the little craft was soon borne out ward. Having cleared the trees the wind brought him into the current, and he and his tin} 7- bark were soon floating down wards after his companions. Both log and bark reached the dam in safety, and the squirrels nimbly leaped on it and soon scampered off into the woods. cat caught a sparrow and was about to devour it, but the sparrow said, “No gentleman cat eats till he washes his face.” The cat, struck at the remark, set the sparrow down, and began to wash his face with his paw, but the sparrow flew away. This vexed puss extremely, and he said—“As long as I live I will eat first and wash my face afterwards,” and this all cats do to this day. A Strong Argument. —There is one single fact which one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, viz : That no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed. Be just and honest in everything. 21