not to go into the next gentleman's yard, for great dog Jowler lies there; he has horrid teeth, and a terrible snarl, and he is always on the lookout for stray cats. Remember, and keep at home; we have a snug garden, a sweet haymow, kind friends, capital tit-bits, and work enough-rats and mice a plenty. So, do not stroll off with bad company, visiting places where you have no business to be, and disgracing your bringing up; for you know better, Kitty, you do."

But Kitty had a saucy look; she boxed her mother's ears (in play to be sure), hoisted her tail, and away she frisked after a dead leaf. Kit did not look at all like minding; and, after her mother had gone to bed on the haymow, she kept up her moonlight rambles, going about, nobody knows where, and cutting up all sorts of capers, like a silly little Kit as she was. One night, when she and some of her thoughtless companions were scudding across Jowler's yard, he, much disturbed by their noise, at an hour when he thought all honest folks ought to be abed and asleep, started up and made after them, in a violent rage; and poor Kitty, in her fright, got entangled in some briar bushes, and so fell into Jowler's power. He seized her by the neck with his terrible mouth, shook the breath out of her body, and tossed her over the fence.

"O! O!" cried Mary and Willy, when they found their favourite stiff and cold, the next morning. "O!" cried their mother, pussy's mistress, "your little puss! she bid fair to be an excellent mouser." "O dear!" mewed the old cat ; "O dear! such are the fruits of disobedience. How many a wilful child comes to an untimely end! "

BIBLE ENIGMA, No. 91.

A MAN from whom an image once was stole, One who was a type of Him who makes the wounded sinner whole,

One who was of stature small,

One who followed at Christ's call,

One who, though a sinner vile, was saved by grace,
One who, a sovereign's faults declared unto his face,
One who was persecuted for his Master's sake.
The initials of these names if you will take,
To you a person's name they will disclose
Who at Christ's word escaped the last of foes.

SAMUEL

ANSWER TO BIBLE ENIGMA, No. 90.

[Or one of Israel's tribes, the head
Long time did mourn his children dead.
Men's passions vile, the Scripture saith,

By violence produced their death.

Variance for this world's goods, as oft's the case,
Led to the committal of an act so base.
Now you who read, be pleased in verse
The patriarch's name and case rehearse.

Fenstanton.

1 CHRON. vii. 20—23.
EPHRAIM mourned many days
For his sons, the Scripture says;
Whom the men of Gath did slay,
Because they their cattle took away.

S. S.]

MARY ANN COBB,
Aged 15.

The Little Gleaner.

OUR ENGRAVING.

Most of our young readers have read, with much interest, Mrs. Stowe's deeply-moving tale of the horrors of slavery, in her volume called "Uncle Tom." Such will recognize at once in our engraving the flight of poor Eliza, with her babe, across the blocks of floating ice upon the Ohio. We need not, therefore, quote the tale; we merely insert the engraving, just at this time, to excite afresh in the bosoms of our readers a horror of slavery. This is an eventful time in that land of the slave, America; and who dare say that the present sanguinary strife on the Western continent is not the fruit and the punishment of the connivance of America at that foul system? It has been calculated it would have cost the country far less to ransom every slave at his full value from the hands of his master, than one year's expense of this deadly war, not to name, what is most awful, the streams of human blood, widows' tears, and orphans' woes that the war has cost. It is to be devoutly desired that God will overrule the present strife, to the crushing of slavery in America; for this may every Christian heart be prompted to pray.

H