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Child’s Morning Hymn. The morning bright, With rosy light, Has waked me up from sleep. Father, I own, Thy love alone Thy little one doth keep. All through the day, I humbly pray, Be thou my guard and guide : My sins forgive, And let mo live, Blest Jesus, by thy side. Oh ! make me rest, Within Thy breast, Great Spirit of all grace— Make mo like Thee, Then I shall be Prepared to see Thy face. THE DEAF AND DUMB BOY. 8 GENTLEMAN being on a visit once to a friend, the conversation turned on the great blessing of the deaf and dumb ns, when the former ex his incredulity as to those thus affected really under p standing what they were taught. Ilis friends proposed he should visit the institution, in order that he s might have the opportunity of judging for himself. They accordingly went, and he was requested to write on the black-board, which was hung up in the room where the children were sitting, any questions he wished to propose. He took the chalk and wrote, “Who made all things?” One of the little boys wrote — “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” lie again wrote, “Why was it Jesus Christ came into this world ?” The answer given—“ God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” He took the chalk again, and wrote, “ How is it that I can both hear and speak, whilst you are deaf and dumb?” The little fellow’s e}-es filled with tears whilst he wrote underneath, “Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight.” This touching answer rebuked the un belief of the gentleman, who retired, not only convinced, but deeply affected. Sensibility. —To delicate minds, the unfortunate are always objects of respect, as the ancients held sacred those places which had been scathed by lightning. Thus the feeling heart considers the af flicted as touched by the hand of the Deity himself. BURKE’S WEEKLY. Written for Burke’s Weekly. AN OLD FBIEND. boy or girl that reac * s the eekly wi!i doubtless recognize the spry-looking fellow whose picture we give below. You fig* have often heard him tapping away at an old pine tree, and it may be } y Oll Dave wondered what he I was doing it for. We will tell you. The Woodpecker builds his nest in the hollow of dead trees, and sometimes when you hear him he is making a hole in the tree where he intends to build his nest. But very often ho is after something to eat. The Woodpecker lives on insects and worms, and these he finds in the old trees where you see him at work. When v^£tdi| |He », ipfii : f | j|Kjj| the woodpecker. he finds an ant’s nest in a hollow tree, he <>-ocs some distance up the tree and O .. digs a hole through the sound part until he reaches the hollow, up which the ants are passing in a continued stream, back and forth. Through this hole he thrusts his long, keen tongue, which is rough like a file, and barbed at the end, and covered over with a glutinous substance, to which the ants or other insects adhere. They are then drawn into his mouth, and this operation is repeated until he has satisfied his hunger. There are more than twenty-five differ ent species of woodpeckers found in North America, but the one most common at the South is known as the Red-headed Woodpecker. He is about seven and a quarter inches long, and his wing meas ures four and a half inches. lie is very prettily marked with black and white, and has a tuft of brilliant red feathers on the top of his head, from which he takes his name. Ho is a friend to the farmer, and should never be shot, as he lives on insects which would otherwise prove very destructive to vegetation. KINDNESsTtO ANIMALS. Sig|§'UßlNG the year 1842, OippSi the then youn g Lord Dorchester, son of Earl f' Carnoven, at a meeting fjgL ** ~ of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- Jr mals, in Exeter Hall, delivered the (S’ following address. He was then iff only twelve years old. It was made to second the resolution, “ That the sub ject of humanity to animals • should be made a matter of special instruction in all our National Schools “ Ladies and Gentlemen : lam but a little boy; but no child is too young to care about dumb animals, and no child can grow up to be a good man who does not treat every animal with mer cy and kindness. We wish to teach children to be kind to animals, and I am sure animals teach us many useful lessons. The bee teaches us to be in dustrious, the lamb to be gentle, and true and faithful; and if all children were industrious, true and gentle, I al most think we should give grown per sons much less trouble than we do. When God made the world, He gave a blessing to all the animals. He created all of them before He created man. God’s first words to animals were good and kind words, and God will not love any man or child who does not show them pity and kindness. In Turkey, where I went with papa and mamma, the little boys and girls will not hurt dumb animals, and it is a shame that Christian boys should do what Mo hammedan boys would not think of do ing. But when English children are taught to know that it is wrong to hurt animals, they will find more pleasuie in protecting than in injuring them. “ I hope, ladies and gentlemen, you will encourage this plan of teaching children their duty to dumb animals; and I am sure, if you do so, the animals will be much happier, and the children much bet ter than they are. “I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for having heard me so kindly, and I beg to second the resolution.” JGST’As we go on in life we find we can not afford excitement, and we learn to be parsimonious in our emotions. — &2T Live honest and be happy. 399