"Brother, cheer up! cheer up! cheer up!

Better, brighter times will come;
All have joys as well as sorrows,
Sunshine some days,-rain on some."

The boy clapped his hands with delight,
Hope gleamed in the father's heart;
His child could be happy; ah! well, then,
He would work and not mind the smart.

Away flew the little brown bird,
(For it had more work in store),
Away to a forest hut,

Where a girl lay sick and sore.
He perched on a neighbouring tree,
And sang her a low, sweet song,
Till he felt as happy and warm

As in summer the flowers among.
He told her that he had often
Been cold and hungry too,
But that he had never quite starved.
He had always been brought through.
He said he had sometimes caught

A gleam of the dreadful Jay,
And oh! how he trembled then!
But he never had fallen a prey.
And so he had learned to hope,

And also to trust and think,
That some One strong and kind,
Would not let the weak things sink.
Some One watched over them all,
With untiring love and care,
No matter where they lived,
No matter who they were.

Did the poor girl understand?

The little bird thought she did,
For she smiled and said, "Come again,
Come again, little bird, I bid."

And so after that he tried,

Every day in the forest land,
To sing of hope;-what a pity it was
If some could not understand!

But an angel, beautiful, bright,

Coming down the golden stair,
Stopped, as he heard the happy song
Borne softly on the air.
And he listened reverently,

'Twas a song of the Fatherland, (The angel knew it quite well, And, ah! he could understand).

The little wren had learnt it,
From hearing the angels sing;
And now the angel listened

To this tiny brown-winged thing.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

ANSWERS TO QUERIES. CORINTHIAN ORDER OF ARCHITECTURE. -The Corinthian order is supposed to be imitative of the proportions of a young virgin, as the Ionic and Doric were of those of man and woman. The invention or

origin is thus related by Vitruvius. "A Corinthian virgin just marriageable died. After her interment, her nurse collected some vases and toys which had pleased her while living, put them into a basket, and placed it on her tomb, covering it, that it might endure the longer, with a tile. The basket being placed on the roots of an acanthus, depressed it in the middle, causing the leaves and stems, which grew up in spring, to encircle and twine round the basket; but being resisted by the angles of the tile, they convolved at the extremities in the form of volutes. This was seen by Callimachus, who, delighted with it, formed from its model a new capital, the most elegant and beautiful of all the orders." Such is the account given by Vitruvius; but, notwithstanding, all the three orders are generally supposed to be derived from the Egyptians, as Cenops, the founder of Athens was an Egyptian; and it is well known that the Greeks borrowed their manners, customs, and laws from that nation.

DICOTYLEDONS are two-lobed plants. Watch a bean or a lupin just springing from the ground, and you will see it open in two valves or lobes, the bud or embryo-new plant, arising from the lower end. The majority of our trees and plants are dieoty ledonous. Monocotyledons are one-lobed plants, as bulbous and water plants, grasses, &c. Acotyledons are lobeless plants; such as ferns, mosses, lichens, sea-weed, and fungi. The separate leaves, or leafits of the calyx, are called sepals, as the separate coloured-leaves of the corolla, or flower, are petals.

THE HOUSEWIFE'S MISCELLANY.

19. LIGHT TEA BUNS.-Take half a teaspoonful good-sized onion, a handful of sweet-herbs if you of tartaric acid, and the same quantity of bicar-like, and stew all slowly for about two hours. Then bonate of soda, and rub them well into a pound of mince fine the clear meat of the fish, mixing it well flour, through a hair sieve, if leisure permit. Then with bread crumbs and cold, mashed potatoes, and work into the flour two ounces of butter, and add a small quantity of fine-chopped parsley; season two ounces of shed and sifted lump-sugar, also with salt and pepper to taste, and make the whole a quarter of a pound of currants or raisins, and (if into a cake, with an egg well beaten up. Brush liked) a few carraway-seeds. Having mixed all it over lightly with white of egg, and strew with these ingredients well together, make a hole in the bread-crumbs, and fry of a rich amber brown. middle and pour in half a pint of cold new milk; Strain the gravy, made from the bones, &c., and one egg, well beaten, mixed with the milk is a pour it over; stir gently for ten minutes or a quarter great improvement, though your buns will do with- of an hour, carefully stirring it once or twice. out any. Mix quickly, and set your dough with a Serve very hot, with garnish of parsley and lemon fork on baking tins. The buns will take about slices. twenty minutes to bake. From these ingredients you ought to produce a dozen.

20. GOOD CHILDREN'S CAKE.-Rub a quarter of a pound of butter, or good, fresh, clean beef dripping, into two pounds of flour; add half a pound of pounded sugar, one pound of currants, well washed and dried, half an ounce of carrawayseeds, a quarter of an ounce of pudding-spice or allspice, and mix all thoroughly. Make warm a pint of new milk, but do not let it get hot; stir into it three tablespoonsful of good yeast, and with this liquid make up your dough lightly, and knead it well. Line your cake-tins with buttered paper, and put in the dough; let it remain in a warm place to rise for an hour and a quarter, or more, if necessary, and then bake in a well-heated oven. This quantity will make two moderately-sized cakes: thus divided, they will take from an hour and a half to two hours baking. N.B. Let the paper inside your tins be about six inches higher than the top of the

tin itself.

21. VEAL CAKE. This is a pretty, tasty dish for supper or breakfast, and uses up any cold veal which you may not care to mince. Take away the brown outside of your cold roast veal, and cut the white meat into thin slices; have also a few thin slices of cold ham, and two hard-boiled eggs, which also slice, and two dessert spoonsful of finely-chopped parsley. Take an earthenware mould, and lay veal, ham, eggs, and parsley in alternate layers, with a little pepper between each, and a sprinkling of lemon on the veal. When the mould seems full, fill up with strong stock, and bake for half-anhour. Turn out when cold. If a proper shape be not at hand, the veal-cake looks very pretty made in a plain pie-dish. When turned out garnish with a few sprigs of fresh parsley.

22. FISH CAKE. Carefully remove the bones and skin from any fish that is left from dinner, and put it into warm water for a short time. After taking it out press it dry, and beat it in a mortar to a fine paste with an equal quantity of mashed potatoes; season to taste. Then make up the mass into round, flat cakes, and fry them in butter or lard till they are of a fine golden brown colour. Be sure they do not burn. Cod-fish is excellent re-cooked after this fashion.

23. ANOTHER WAY.-Put the bones of the fish, with the head and fins, into a stewpan, with about a pint of water; add pepper and salt to taste; one

24. SALT-FISH CAKE.-Carefully take away all the bones, chop up the remains of yesterday's parsnips and potatoes; mix all together with the cold egg-sauce; put the whole in a pie-dish, and place it in the oven for half-an-hour. Look at it occasionally during the baking, and if it seems to get too dry, put a little fresh butter on the top. The plain, cold cod-fish treated in the same way, substituting oyster-sauce for egg-sauce, cats excellent.

25. MINCED FOWL.-Take the remains of a cold roast fowl, and cut off all the white meat, which the bone, skin, and etceteras into a stewpan with mince finely, without any skin or bone; but put an onion, a blade of mace, and a handful of sweet herbs tied up; add nearly a pint of water; let it stew for an hour, and then strain and pour off the gravy, putting in a teaspoonful of Lea and Perrin's and chop them small; mix them with the fowl; add Worcestershire sauce. Take two hard-boiled eggs, salt, pepper, and mace according to taste; put in the gravy; also half a tablespoonful of very finely minced lemon-peel, and one tablespoonful of lemon-juice, two teaspoonsful of flour, made into a smooth paste with a little cold water, and let the whole just boil. Serve with sippets of toasted bread. Some persons prefer Cayenne to common white pepper.

26. ALMOND BISCUITS.-To one pound of loaf sugar, roughly crushed, add two ounces of sweetalmonds, chopped (not too fine), two eggs, well beaten, and a little essence of almonds. Mix with as much flour, added gradually, as will make it into a stiff paste, that can be stirred with a spoon. Drop on tins, floured, but not buttered, and bake in a very slow oven. These biscuits are an excellent substitute for macaroons.-HEATHERBELL. 27. ORANGE BISCUITS. Boil some Seville oranges very gently till they are quite tender: the water must be changed two or three times while they are boiling, to take out some of the bitterness. side and seeds quite clean: the outsides only are Then cut them in halves, and scoop out the into be used. Weigh them and double their weight in white sugar, finely pounded and sifted. Then beat the orange-peel and sugar well together, till it is a smooth paste. Roll it out very thin, and lay it upon dishes till the next day; then you may cut it with a tin-cutter, or a knife, into any shape you please. Turn the biscuits upon fresh dishes,

FAMILY PASTIME.

Sir Galahad in quest of the Holy Grail or Sangreal.-HOPE G.

That which is vowed by lovers and school-girls.The postman's knock.-ÍVY GREEN.

The polar-star of love.-The perfume of friendship.-The golden thread that links heart to heart. WELSH KÄTHE.

"The heart that, once loving, can never forget;
But loving, loves on to the close;
As the sunflower turns the same face to her god
When he sets as she did when he rose."

The heart true to its own resolves.-Mental and moral strength of purpose.-To be true to our selves and to others.-True love's consequent and subsequent.-Gold coined in the richest mint humanity possesses.-SARA.

summer and winter, in frost and sunshine. Time A flower planted by affection: it blooms in and death cannot tear it away, for its roots strike too deep.-ELLYS HOPE ERLE,

The tax-gatherer.-Christmas bills.-The Times newspaper.-Summer and winter, spring-time and harvest.-FRANK FRANCIS.

Unchanging love.-Fidelity's twin sister.-The found.-Ruth clinging to Naomi.-The language The proof of friendship.-Oftener sought than that truth first teaches innocence.

A village in Kent.

e. A market-town in Somersetshire.

f. A parish in Surrey, of the same name as a Warwickshire M.P.

A village famous for the residence of Pope. g. A village in Radnor. A city of Spain.

name two celebrated heroes, who were together on The initials downwards and the fina's upwards the field of Waterloo.-STANTONVILLE.

My first all welcome;

My second belongs to every child of Adam, and increases day by day;

My third goes through my first; My whole the civilised world cannot do without, and is just now in more than ordinary demand.

Name a town in Hampshire by adding an article to a well-known seaport town not in Hampshire. FORGET-ME-NOT.