Archie felt? Mr. M- then turned to his father, and said, "You must let your son come again. When he was there a few weeks ago, he only stayed about two hours. We hoped he had come to spend the whole day." There, Archie's guilt was all out. His father and mother had found him out in a direct falsehood. He felt both ashamed and sorry; and yet it was a relief that his parents knew it, and to ask their forgiveness. Nor was that all. He knew that he had grieved his Heavenly Parent. He knew that "lying lips are an abomination to the Lord." An "abomination!" Think how God must hate liars. He was troubled and humbled, and prayed God to forgive him this great sin, for Jesus' sake. Not long after, his mother sent him to buy her something at a shop. Archie did so, but did not bring home as much change as she had expected. "Is this all the money, Archie?" asked his mother, looking him full in the face. "Yes, mother." "I hope, my dear son, you are not deceiving me again," she said. Archie was honest this time, and it almost broke his heart to be thus suspected; yet he felt it was just, and went away sorrowful. These are the consequences of falsehood: it is a crooked path, and hard to get out of. A boy who has been a liar cannot be immediately believed. It takes time to restore confidence in his word, even when he speaks the truth. THE CAMELOPARD. HE Giraffe, or camelopard, is a very remarkable quadruped, belonging to the class of ruminants, or animals that chew the cud, as the camel, the deer, the sheep, and the goat. Its body has some likeness to that of the camel; and the colour of its skin, being a kind of yellowish white, spotted with patches of fawn colour, something like that of a leopard, led to its being called by the names of both these animals,-camel, leopard. It further resembles the camel in its manner of kneeling for the purpose of sleeping, in the length of its neck, and in its having lumps of hardened skin on the lower part of the breast and over the joints. Its horns, which, in the male giraffe, are about a foot long, are covered less creature, choosing dense forests for its home, and feeding on the leaves and shoots of trees. When it crops grass or herbage, it is not, as has been supposed, under the necessity of kneeling, though its natural mode of feeding, for which it seems to be especially constructed, is by browsing upon trees or shrubs at a great height from the ground. It is a mild, timid, and harm- a camelopard as proceeding at a "smart trot," he says, "We galloped after her, and occasionally fired our muskets, but she gradually gained so much upon us, that, having pursued her for three hours, we were forced to stop, because our horses were entirely out of breath, and we lost sight of her.” The next day, he tells us, he saw five giraffes, to which he gave chase, but which, after a whole day's pursuit, he lost sight of as night came on. During the next day he fell in with seven. One of them he followed on horseback at full speed, but it left him in the distance, and was lost to his view; the dogs, however, resolutely continued the chase, and afterwards brought the creature to bay. They surrounded it, but did not venture to make an attack, as it defended itself with vigorous and rapid kicks. In the meantime, the traveller came up, and killed it by a shot. This animal is a native of the country lying between Egypt and Ethiopia. It is rare in Abyssinia, and still more so in Southern Africa. It is hunted and killed by the natives for the sake of its large and beautiful skin, as well as for the marrow of its bones, which is considered by them a great dainty. The flesh of the young camelopard is said, by travellers, to be an acceptable article of diet. When pursued, it bounds along with such rapidity, as to outstrip the fleetest horse. Some have said that its gait is awkward, and that it is soon exhausted by its speed. But a traveller called Le Vaillant, who gives an account of his attempt to capture one in Great Namaqualand, in South Africa, bears a different testimony. After describing The first giraffe seen alive in England, was sent, in 1827, by the Pacha of Egypt, as a present to his Majesty George the Fourth; another also being sent at the same time to Paris. These two animals were obtained while young, by some Arabs, a few days' journey south of Sennaar, in Nubia, near a mountainous and wooded district, and were fed with camels' milk. By command of the Pacha, they were removed by Egyptians. It has not hitherto been tamed, so as to be put to any useful purpose. F. F. E. gradual stages to Cairo, and "GO, AND DO THOU LIKE thence by the Nile, in boats, to Alexandria, whence they were shipped to their destinations in Europe. Several living giraffes have been since that date brought into this country. It is stated that about the end of the fifteenth century the Soldan, or Sultan, of Egypt sent a camelopard to the famous Lorenzo di Medici, and that it was familiar to the inhabitants of Florence, in Italy; where it was accustomed to walk at ease about the streets, stretching its long neck into the balconies and first floors for apples and other fruits, on which it delighted to feed. It was well known in ancient Rome. The first specimen appears to have been exhibited in the time of Julius Cæsar; several of the Emperors afterwards exhibited it in the games and processions; and one Emperor, Gordian the Third, is said to have possessed ten at the same time. Its figure also occurs amongst the drawings made on monuments by the ancient WISE." (LUKE X. 37.) ERCHANCE, you may not meet a man In such a helpless, wounded state, Stricken by thieves, but still you can All be compassionate. For on the life-course you will find, Always around you hearts to bind, Wounds you may heal by being kind. O, follow ye, with earnest heart, The sweet example of this man ; Nor from your fellows live apart, But, like the good Samaritan, Hold out the hand of kindliness To those around you in distress, And God, our God, your lives shall bless. WISE RESOLUTIONS. LITTLE girl of six years old was not long ago called home to God. About a year before her death she had a small writing-desk given her. After her death her NAAMAN'S REQUEST FOR TWO MULES' BURDEN OF EARTH. "And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the Lord." -2 KINGS V. 17. HIS text has greatly perplexed commentators. But it appears simply a request for a quantity of material from the land of Judæa wherewith Naaman might build himself an altar at which henceforth to worship the true God. But why, you may perhaps inquire, did he want to take the materials all the way from Judæa to Syria, when he had plenty of the same sort in his own country? Simply for this reason. He seemed to consider Judæa as a country favoured of God above all places in the earth. He had just experienced the wonderful efficacy of the water of Jordan above all other water, and amid the wonder and gratitude caused by his cure, he thought the land of Judæa was blessed as well as the water; and that it would be a privilege to take away with |