MARCH. Page. 276 281 281 283 214 Our YOUNG PEOPLE'S STORY-TELL- 223 ER.–Leila Grey: or, Twice an Or- 286 291 243 Curious Matters 296 297 298 295 In the Soft May Rain - 405 Youth and Age 470 471 478 phan 491 495 490 497 Facts and Fancies 498 433 Jack Smalley An Unfortunate Match Spain! JUNE. An Amazonian Tribe Page: 505 Page. 663 569 574 581 581 ER -Leila Grey: or, Twice an Or- 586 502 593 594 695 ous Pictures.) We had met the previous evening, we had quarrelled, we had parted; But whate'er it was that prompted the desire I felt to skate, Then a sudden sense of peril drove the color from her cheek MINNIE AND HER DOG. Minnie Carlton lived in a large pleasant permission for her to do so. But she wept country town, in a large pleasant country and teased in vain, for in this respect her house painted white, with green blinds, parents were firm, and would not allow her and having a piazza running along one side to go beyond a canary and a parrot. of it. In front of the house was a large Poll was one of the handsomest of her Nower garden, and behind it a long stretch tribe, all scarlet, and green, and gold, and of green dotted with fruit trees, while at blue; Tip, the canary, was all that a caone side lay a spacious and beautifully nary could be, and Minnie took great desmooth croquet-ground. The only child of light in his sweet songs and pretty ways. kind and indulgent parents who were far Polly bid fair to becoine gifted in conversafrom poor, one miglit reasonably suppose tion to an extraordinary degree, and would that a happier little girl than Minnie conld sit on the piano while her little mistress not easily be found; and, generally speak- played some simple air and laugh uproaring, this was true. But sometimes the hap- iously, which was probably her way of appiest and most favored children have wish- plauding the performance. es that are not gratified, and Minnie had But with all these graces in her pets, one favorite lobby which she persisted in Minnie's heart was still unsatisfied; her riding wlienever she felt the least out of sky was dark, and her soul was sad, for the sorts. She had a perfect passion for pets want of a dog-a real, live, playful dog, of all kinds, and if she could have had her that would love her and let her hold him own way, she would have become the own- in her lap, or frolic with her on the lawn. er of kitlens, dogs, birds, white inice, and, Her friend Alice Stanley had a silky little in short, every pretty or cunning little crea- spaniel with great clear eyes and long ture that happened to interest hier for the glossy ears, and o, how Minnie longed for moment; and she thought it very hard- such a pet wlien Alice detailed all his hearted of her father and mother to refuse good qualities to her! She had begun to |