A kindly welcome to all young friends
(And these will not be few),

Who, struggling on in Wisdom's race,
Now enter on Book Two.

We shall try to make your heads more wise,
Your hearts more kind, your manners nice,
That your duty in life you may learn to know,
And in right paths may wish to go.
To make the road more bright and gay,

Some tales will be told to cheer the way.

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO.

AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.

You have now come to the Second Book, and your lessons need not be quite so easy as they have been in the First Book. You have grown older since, and I hope wiser.

I wish to teach you in this little book how you may use the many gifts God has given you. He has given you eyes to see the many lovely things around you, and I will try to teach you to observe them. You must teach your ears to listen to the songs of the birds and the pleasant murmur of the brook.

Many men and women can pass lovely flowers without seeming to observe them; they hear the merry warbling of the lark without feeling glad and thankful. Do you know the reason of this? When they were young, they did not learn to enjoy these things. Perhaps nobody told them about the beauties of nature, and they never learned to see them. That