Napoleon," 2 vols.; "Schoolmaster Stories;" "Hans Brinker;"
"Swiss Family Robinson;" "Dickens's Child's History of England;"
"Kenilworth;" "The Scottish Chiefs;" "The Boy Emigrants;" "Sparks'
Life of Washington;" "Glaisher's Aerial Navigation."

This letter, dear Jack, is sent, not by way of puffing George, but
as a sort of spur to studious boys and girls who may follow his
example, if somebody puts them up to it.--Yours truly,

SILAS GREEN.

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"SEE HOW I HELP!"

One of Jack's good friends, L.W.J. sends you this new fable:

"See how I help!" said a little mouse
To the reapers that reaped the grain,
As he nibbled away, by the door of his house,
With all of his might and main.

"See how I help!" he went on with his talk;
But they laid all the wide field low
Before he had finished a single stalk
Of the golden, glittering row.

As the mouse ran into his hole, he said:
"Indeed, I cannot deny,