L.-SUBTRACTION. 1. Take five from nine; two from eight; three from seven; seven from nine. 2. Take three from eleven; five from twelve; seven from nineteen; eight from sixteen; four from fifteen. 3. Subtract eleven from fourteen ; twelve from eighteen; fourteen from nineteen; thirteen from twenty-five. 4. Subtract nineteen from fifty; twentyseven from eighty-one; forty-five from ninety-three; fifty-six from seventy-four. 5. Take forty-three from one hundred ; sixty-two from one hundred and one; thirty-two from ninety-five. 6. Take ninety-seven from one hundred and eleven; thirty-nine from one hundred and eight. 7. Find the difference between fortyseven and one hundred and seven. MR. ADAM WHITE, a great hunter, had gone in search of a tiger that had carried off a cow, and he thus tells the story: "I had gone a little way up the val-ley, and was standing on the bank of a stream, whose steep banks were covered with jungle, into which the tiger had been seen to retreat. Peering about, I heard the low growl so pe-cu-li-ar to the tiger when about to make a charge. I had barely time to look whence the sound came, when a fine tiger rushed at me from under a thick bush, where he had been lying hid, about twenty paces from me. "I had not a second to lose, and therefore at once fired the right barrel of my gun at the head of the beast. The ball, however, only grazed his skull, and made a deep flesh wound under his left ear. On he came with greater fury, and, when within a yard of the muzzle of my rifle, I hit him with the contents of the left barrel in the centre of his chest. "Al-though my second bullet did instant and fatal work, still his rush was such that his body, carried forward with the last effort of his vital strength, dashed against me with great force, threw me down, and gave me an awk-ward back fall of fifteen feet from the top to the bottom of the steep bank. "Of course, we both top-pled over at the same instant; and on re-cov-er-ing, for I had been stunned by the fall, I found myself below my late foe, he quite dead, with his head laid across my left arm, and purpling my face with his life's blood. "With an effort, I got myself clear of his carcass, but, on trying to stand, I found that my left leg was hurt. Just then my two servants, who, on hearing and seeing the tiger, had fled, came up, still under the effects of their late panic, and thinking the beast to be still alive, fired at him, but with such bad aim, that instead of hitting the tiger, they very nearly hit me. "After an hour's delay, I was taken to my tent, the tiger being carried in the rear. Next day I was brought to town, and placed under the care of a doc-tor, and, as I was not much hurt, I was soon able to walk again." LII.-THE STAR. TWINKLE, twinkle, little star; gone, When the blazing sun is Then you show your little light; Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. Then the trav-el-ler in the dark Thanks you for your tiny spark; He could not see which way to go If you did not twinkle so. In the dark blue sky you keep, As your bright but tiny spark |