did not like him, for he was cruel and unkind to them, took away a great deal of their money and lands, and gave it to his own friends the Normans.

He was very fond of hunting, and in order to get a place for his deer, he turned the people out of their houses, and pulled them down for the space of thirty miles, in Hampshire county, filled it with wild boars and deer, and called it the New Forest.

He caused the Curfew or cover-fire bell to be rung every evening at eight o'clock; upon which the people were to put out their fire and candles. A regulation of police existing before in Normandy and other parts of Europe.

He had four children; Robert, William, Henry, and Adela; but they were not taught, like Samuel and Timothy, to love the Lord, and they were never happy or good.

One day William and Henry threw a can of water over Robert; it was only in play, as he was passing under their window, but it was rude, and made Robert very angry, when he saw that all his fine clothes were made wet; and sad to tell, he drew his sword in, a great passion and tried to kill his brothers. Poor fellow; he had never been told that no murderer hath eternal life;' and when his father, who heard the noise, came out and took the sword from him, he was angry, and said his father loved his brothers better than him. He ran away that night, and got a great many soldiers, and fought against his own father. You know he

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had never read in the Bible, Children obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.'

Not long after this King William was very ill, but he did not seek the Lord in his sickness. The king of France laughed at his illness, and made a foolish jest about him, which offended William greatly, and he said he should soon be well, and then he would burn a hundred thousand houses in France in revenge.

O, how wicked! The poor people could not help it, if their king was rude to William. Besides, we ought to love our enemies, and pray for them. How did he know that God would ever let him get well! But he did get better, and he went to France, and set the town of Mantes on fire; and while he was pushing his horse on to bid his soldiers spread the flames wider, the animal trod on some burning ashes, and rearing up, struck the king so hard with the saddle, that he was carried off in a high fever to Rouen, the capital of Normandy. (Ask mother to show you these places on a map.)

When the surgeons told him that he was going to die, he cried so loud that they could hear him all over the palace; for he was afraid to die because he was so wicked. He soon breathed his last, and then his attendants stripped the body and took away his clothes. Even his children ran away to take his money; and when the coffin was brought, it was too small, but they would not take the trouble to make another, but roughly forced the body into it, nailed it down, and

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Remarkable events-William made the New Forest in Hampshire to hunt in; he ordered his people to put out their fires and candles every night at eight o'clock,when a bell used to toll to tell them the time, called the curfew-bell. His children were very disobedient to him.

GREAT school has been justly called 'a little world;' and although that kept by my friend, Mrs. Haywood, was not precisely of that description, as she only took twenty young ladies, considerable variety of character and conduct might be observed in it. As one possessing great natural endowments, as well as extensive acquirements and uncommon experience, and who had for many years exercised a beneficial care and maternal government over many, her judgment could scarcely be disputed, and it was one of her maxims, 'that certain faults were best cured by girls themselves.' Those which had their origin either in vanity or self-will, are banished very speedily in society that neither admit the exercise of the first, because they deem it ridiculous, nor of the last, because it is encroaching; no young lady likes airs in another, whatever may be her own tendency to similar faults.

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Mrs. Haywood was summoned to her drawing-room one morning, at the close of the midsummer vacation, to receive an Irish gentleman, who brought two motherless daughters, whom he was conscious ought to have been placed under female governance long before, since it was impossible for him to attend to their education, and form their manners to those of gentlewomen, amid a host of servants and dependants, never weary of admiring them, and apologizing for whatever eccentricities they might adopt, or follies they might commit. He was now awake to his error, and anxious to see his darlings the same lovely and le women he remembered their mother; and determined to consign them, for two whole years, to the sole care of one in whom he had the fullest confidence.

The education of my children has been so desultory,' said Mr. Berington, that although they have a smattering of

their religion, which all protestants in our country are regularly taught; and my brother, an excellent clergyman, has instructed them. I therefore hope they will be obedient on principle; but I confess I have been indulgent to a fault, and they are deficient in practice.'

Whilst this introduction to their future governess was taking place, the two rosyfaced, hoydenish-looking girls were gazing at the pictures, plants and bird-cages, disposed more elegantly than they had seen the same ornaments at home, though that home was a castle magnificently situated, and the eldest was inwardly promising herself to arrange every thing in the same way some time, provided old Judy would not bother her, when another arrival changed the current of her thoughts. This was a lady evidently in ill health, and who, being ordered to travel on the continent and spend the two following winters in Nice, had too good an understanding to interrupt the studies of her orphan niece, by making her the companion of her wanderings. It was a great trial to them both to part, but they had a like determined to endure it with fortitude, for the sake of the other.

'I place my ce,' said Miss Cornwall, 'entirely at your disposal, dear madam; she is just thirteen, and I may say, hitherto well instructed, but like all young people she has her deficiencies; you will see what they are, and at once allow for them and remedy them.'

Mr. Berington rose to go, and both his

The tender father thought he had reasoned and provided against this painful moment, and was exceedingly moved by it, though he did not give way; but sensible he could not endure much more, he made his escape hastily, thereby answering the advice given in Mrs. Haywood's looks. In leaving the room he encountered the new come child, who stood pale and rigid as marble near the door, scarcely daring to breathe lest she should render her aunt as unhappy as the poor gentleman was made by the loud sorrow of his daughters.

Although this was really the expres sion of her countenance and the feelings of her heart, no transitory glance would enable another to read it, for Caroline Cornwall was the perfect personification of a young elderly lady, as ladies were in the days of her great aunt and grandmother, with whom she had lived till within the last year, when to her sincere sorrow both had died within a month of each other, and consigned her to the care of her father's sister, who had been most judicious in her system of education hitherto, but could pursue it no further as we have already seen.

This young lady was in a white dress and black sash; she was delicately clean, and every motion showed an anxiety to