and the very warmth which would have imparted new life and vigour to a more robust plant, in this instance only more rapidly accelerated decay.

The little foundling was closely entwined around M. Lennard's heart, and he felt unusually drawn towards her when reviewing the strange similarity of his own early history to hers. But it was not until he had been convinced that consumption had fastened its deadly fangs upon her delicate frame, that he became conscious of the extent of his affection for her, and he then felt that the blow would be to him like losing a second daughter.

Five months only had elapsed before another little coffin was brought into that dwelling, and another little corpse was laid therein, and that tears of genuine sorrow again were shed over the destruction of fondly cherished hopes. But they had one consolation, for they trusted that their little lost one was an heir of eternal bliss, and they felt she had only exchanged a world, for the most part dark and cheerless to her, for one of eternal sunshine; and while they bowed their heads beneath a second load of grief, they prayed that God would enable them each to exclaim in heartfelt submission, "Lord, not my will, but thine be done." KATHLEEN DUKE.

[The above, all my readers will agree, is a most touching and interesting tale; but we should have been glad to learn the grounds upon which the kindhearted Monsieur and Madame Lennard concluded that she had “exchanged a world dark and cheerless for one of eternal sunshine." If grace reached her outcast soul as M. Lennard's favour reached her body, she is indeed in glory. "YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN is the imperative assertion of unfailing truth.-EDITOR.]

THE "JUST-AS-I’VE-A-MIND-TO."

I saw a tigress a little while ago. She was in a cage, gnawing a bone. A man put his umbrella against the bars of her den, and oh! how madly her eyes glared. She showed her white teeth, growled and sprang towards the man in a way that made him start back in a hurry.

"Well," thought I half aloud, "if you were loose, Mistress Tigress, and in the streets, I should not like to meet you. You'd make mincemeat of the boys and girls 'mazing quick."

"But there is a creature as dangerous as the tigress running loose among the children,” whispered a friend at my elbow.

"Ah!" cried I, looking round with surprise in my looks; "what is it?"

"The_Just-as-I've-a-mind-to," said he, laughing, and leaving me very much puzzled for the moment. "The Just-as-I`ve-a-mind-to!" mused I. "He's

joking, I guess. And yet it seems to me I've heard that name before. Oh! I've got it! He means the spirit of wilfulness and obstinacy, which leads a boy or a girl to despise good counsels, and to say, 'I'll do just as I've a mind to.' That's it. The Just-asI've-a-mind-to is a tigress indeed. It destroys a great many children, certainly."

Then I thought of some things the Just-as-I've-amind-to had done. I remembered Will Crusty, who was sent to the mill one day by his father with the horse and waggon. As he left the door-yard, his good father said,

“Will, don't ford the river to-day. The water is too high. Go round by the bridge."

Will cracked his whip, and drove off, muttering,

"I shall do just as I've a mind to about that, old gentleman."

Then he drove straight to the ford. An old farmer saw him, and shouted,—

"Will, don't cross the ford-'tain't safe!"

"I shall do just as I've a mind to about that, old gaffer," said Will.

So he drove into the river at the ford. But the water was very high; the current was very strong. The horse lost his foothold, and was carried into deep water. Will was frightened, and falling into the water, was carried over the mill-dam, and dashed to death among the rocks. The Just-as-I've-a-mind-to killed him, as certainly as any loose tigress would have done.

Nor is Will the only boy which this fierce creature has killed. Millions-I mean millions-have been ruined by it. It loves to drive children into ruin. Isn't it a dreadful creature?

You wouldn't like to meet it, eh? I suppose not. Yet I fear some of you have met it, and have even given it a lodging in your bosoms; for mark, the Just-as-I've-a-mind-to is neither more nor less than a stubborn will in a child's heart!-American Paper.

BIBLE ENIGMA, No. 94.

A SOLEMN Scripture's on record,
In great Jehovah's sacred Word.
It is His holy, righteous will
This Scripture often to fulfil.
In ways that creatures least expect,
God doth His purposes effect.

Man's oft the unconscious instrument
To inflict the threatened punishment.
So one of old, with cruelty great,
Others of his fellow-men did treat;

But, in an unexpected hour,
Jehovah did display His power,

And this man's sin with suffering paid,
That he on other men had laid.
The guilty man confessed his sin,
The hand of God acknowledging.

He died. And now the Scriptures state,
And how it was fulfilled relate.

Fenstanton.

S. S.

ANSWER TO BIBLE ENIGMA, No. 93.

JESUS, the name alone in which I find

All that a sinner needs, most graciously combined,—
The lost, the ruined, guilty, and depraved,
By that alone, from misery are saved;
By that we may approach the mercy-seat;
By that accepted at His throne may meet.
He is the way to God to bring us nigh;
He is the truth that saves from every lie;
He is the life that death cannot assail;
He is the fount whose waters never fail;
He is the fairest of ten thousand fair;
He's more than men or augels can declare.
If found in Him, when all the dead shall rise,
We shall ascend to dwell above the skies;
If not in Him, alas! how sad to tell,
We sink in everlasting woe to dwell.

Oh! may we then, while life and health remain,
The one thing needful happily obtain;

Then death to us will no more terrors have,
But rise we shall triumphant o'er the grave.

E. COBB.

2 Chronicles xxvi. 21.

Daniel iii. 2.

BRIEF MEMOIR OF H. H.
To the Editor of "The Little Gleaner."

MY DEAR FRIEND,-I promised, some time since, I would give you a few details of a young person, who had recently died in the Lord, and whom myself and others visited during her last illness.

H. H. was born in July, 1815. She was naturally

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