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TEMPERANCE TALES. 71 DREAMS AT SEA. By Rev. T. OREENBURY. J Mid lightning’s vivid blaze. I 4 The father thinka tha stormy voyage o'at. )* Th© tender limb’d and timid boj, I 5 Ha wakes to tread for hours. S The husband secs tho harbour. 1 BEAUTIFUL SNOW. An American Poem. 1 2^ * ‘v e 8n0W| beautiful snow. I 4 The veriest wretch that goes shivering by. 3 Over the crust of the beautiful snow. I 5 Sinners, despair not I Christ stoopeth lav. V Once I was fair as the beautiful suow 1 THE GREATEST PLAGUE OF LIFE. Or the Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant. Illustrated by Grufkshank. Copied by permission of Messrs. Routledge & Co. 1 Nearly worried to death. 3 Engaging a servant. 3 When the missus is cut the cats play. 4 followers, telation3, pud friends. ,5 A country cousin, ’.ua’iua. 6 Out for a holiday. 7 The novel reader. ' 8 The gossipers. 9 Out in the parks. 10 Oh, hat let them ring again. 11 Policeman finds tho door open. 12 Evening party of friends, and return of th* missus. TEMPERANCE TALE BUY YOUR 1 Excuse me interrupting your harmony, gen- tlemen, but tho Gooso Club has com- menced. 2 I’ll play Lizzy a trick I here, my lad, take this basket to No. 6, opposite. 8 I’ve been a goose long enough, Lizzy, now I’ve bought my own gooso. OWN GOOSE. 4 Eli fetches his old mother from the workhouse to spend Christmas Day with them. 5 Grandmother wishes to hear Lizzy read out o? her father’s old Bible. fl Eli’3 old companions leaving the Golden Fleece on Christmas Eve. BUY YOllR OWN 1 John Lewis told to buy his own cherries. i S 2 John Lewis buys his own cherries. | 6 8 John Lewis enjoying them in his workshop. I 7 4 JohnLewisgivinghiswifehisweek’scamings. | CHERRIES. John Lewis bargaining for a leg of mutton. John Lewis builds a nice row of houses. John Lewis and family in their o'vn freehold house. THE BOTTLE. 1 The bottle is brought out for tho first time. 2 He is discharged from his employment for drunkenness. 3 An execution sweeps off the greater part of their furniture. 4 They are driven by poverty into the streets to beg. They still supply the bottle. t Cold, misery, and want destroy their youngest child. The bottle still consoles them. 6 Fearful quarrels, the natural consequence of the frequent use of the bottle. 7 Ha kills his wife with the instrument of all their misery, the bottle. 6 The bottle has done its work. It has destroyed tlicinfant and the mother, it has brought the son and the daughter to vice and to tho streets, and has left the father o hopeless maniac. Reading, Od.