for 4 times, ** repeat from (a); after the last 7 Dc on De, fasten off.

Now turn the cap round, and work the other side the same.

For the next. Row.-5 ch De u bar; ** De u same bar, work this all round, only make 7 ch instead of 5 everywhere except in the widened part.

Next Row-Do u 5 ch (or 7), 9 ch 1 Lu centre of bar, 9 ch repeat, excepting at the ends between the 3 circles or stars; there make only 3 ch, which latter draws the circles together.

Last Row-11 De u 9 ch, ** 11 De u next 9 eh, ** repeat. Where the 3 ch are made there make only De, and omit the bar altogether.

PATTERN FOR THE TRIMMING OF

THE LITTLE SHEPHERD.

A YOUNG shepherd became celebrated for the readiness and intelligence with which he answered all questions-addressed to him, and his reputation having reached the ears of the king of the country, he was sent for to Court, and thus addressed by the monarch :

If you succeed in answering the three interrogatives I am about to make, I will adopt you for the future as my son, and you shall live with me in the palace."

"Sire, what are the three questions?" inquired the shepherd.

"The first," replied the king, “requires you to tell me how many drops of

A LADY'S JACKET OR CHILDREN'S water there are in the ocean.”

DRAWERS.

Materials.-Fine Jacconot Muslin and Messrs. Walter Evans & Co.'s No. 16 Embroidery Cotton.

Trace the pattern by pinning the muslin on the pattern; then rub on a plate, with water, a little of the cake Prussian blue, diluting it with more water. Then with fine camel's-hair brush, trace the pattern all over; or scrape a portion of washing blue, and mix with a little gum waterthen trace.

Sire, begin by stopping up all the floods and rivers in the world, in such a manner that not one drop of water may enter into the sea until I have made my cal culation; I will then give you the answer. The king next demanded how many stars there were in the firmament.

The youth requested to have a sheet of paper, which he covered closely with small and almost imperceptible marks of his pen, in such profusion that it would have been impossible to count them.

"There are as many stars in the skies, as marks on this paper. Deign to count them, sire!"

The monarch, however, did not appear at all impatient to accept the invitation of the young man, but passed the paper to some of his attendants.

The third question was then proposed. "Of how many seconds is eternity composed?"

TO WORK.-First trace the single lines by using double cotton; attach it to the edge by a firm stitch; then, without running it through the muslin, attach it by a stitch to the next solid part, then back again to the edge; divide the cotton to a single thread, and work over these double threads in thick button-hole stitch, but without sewing through the muslin; continue to work all these threads in the same manner. Now trace with single cotton (running it firmly through the muslin), all the thick parts and edges, including the edge where the rose-eyelet-holes are; these latter must The young shepherd answered, "Near be worked round the pierced hole the same Pomerania is a mountain of diamonds, as the edge, in solid work of button-hole two miles in height, and the same prostitch. The leaves must be traced with portions in width and depth. Once in double cotton, and worked thickly with every century, a bird lights upon it, single cotton; spot the veins of and round scrapes the mountain with its beak, and the leaves also with single cotton. After-carries off a diamond. When it shall wards the muslin is to be cut out in every part have removed in this manner the entire that is not worked into; consequently, the muslin is seen only in the leaves. The mountain, the first second of eternity insertion is for the bands of the sleeves and shall have expired." collarette. For the latter, the wide piece of work must be sewed round the insertion.

The king could not forbear admiring the wisdom of these replies, and fulfilled his promise by adopting the young shepherd, and nominating him his successor.

A LADY'S NIGHT AMONG THE

GLACIERS.

in a state of constant effort to keep myself from sliding out at the lower end. Sometimes I was smothered in the bed

clothes; sometimes I awoke from a doze with a shiver, and found that the coverings had left me on a visit to some one else. Several times my hair got entangled in some dry twigs, which had been left at the upper end of the apartment, and occupied the place where the pillow might have gone had there been one. In one position, at which I several times arrived, without any wish of my own, I could see the " spangled heavens, a shining frame," with the stars winking at me, as if they were asking me how I liked it. I was frequently tempted to think that the men who lay outside, grouped around the fire, had the best of it; but Balmat confessed to me next morning that it had been rather cold; and I knew that, about three o'clock, the wind came very freezingly even into our comparative shelter, through the ventilating parts of the structure. spoken of my own condition only, for I do not pretend to record the experiences of others. It was a grand and solemn time, though, despite its discomforts. Until the wind became strong, which it did an hour or so before daybreak, the silence was so profound as to be oppressive. Not the slightest sound broke the deep and death-like tranquillity, except the occasional crash of an avalanche, whose thunder seemed but to intensify the stillness which ensued, when its re

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Ir was past seven, and quite dusk, when we reached our bivouac. We found a general and anxious desire for tea. There was a large piece of rock just below our cabin, whose top formed a flat slab, and made an excellent table. Balmat, who liked to do things nicely, had even brought up a tablecloth, which was laid on the rock, and on this was soon spread a tempting array of bread, butter, cold chicken and mutton, cheese, raisins, and biscuits. Salt and sugar were not forgotten; and a stock of potatoes lay at our feet, to roast in the ashes of our wood fire. There was, however, no kettle to boil the water in-no vessel, in fact, but three tumblers, and the three-legged coffee-pot; so we resolved to try a decoction of tea, instead of an infusion, and putting our tea into a coffee-pot, sent one of the men down to the bed of the lake, a couple of hundred yards off, to fill it with water. While Balmat and I had been away, a copious stock of rhododendrons had been grubbed up by the two men, and a good fire was kindled, on which the tea was set to boil. It was soon ready, and with the help of a bottle of cream, which had stood the journey admirably, a famous beverage was condelightful evening was never passed than we spent seated round the rhododendron fire, on the shore of that great sea of ice. The expedition had been so far a grand success, and the cookery, both of tea and potatoes, was unanimously voted a chef d'oeuvre. We sat chatting, joking, and laughing, list- | ening to Balmat's anecdotes of adventures | among the his words in the decline of life--"I have ening sky, and the stars appearing one by of this life are, and what the more refined one, till the high vault of heaven glittered pleasures which learning and intellectual with its thousand sparkling points of power can bestow; and with all the exlight, and deep night had settled on the perience that threescore years can give, I eternal snows and the solemn heights now, on the eve of my departure, declare to around. I know nothing in nature more you, that health is a great blessing, comstriking than the change from day to petence obtained by honourable industry a

cocted. A more

night amidst the glaciers.

verberate echoes had died away.-Wanderings among the High Alps.

COLERIDGE ON RELIGION.-These are

known what the enjoyments and advantages

great blessing; and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and

I cannot honestly say that we slept very relatives; but that the greatest of all blessa considerable slope, and I found myself privileges, is to be indeed a Christian."

year to £15,674; and the value of the poultry and game received from Belgium alone averages £21,000 per annum. Eggs, also, form an item of consumption in some

A writer in Blackwood's Journal of Agriculture, strongly urges that more attention should be paid in the rearing of manufactures. domestic poultry in this country, the chief reason appearing to be that we are dependent in this respect, to a great extent, upon the supplies which we receive from the Continent, from Egypt, from America, and from other distant countries. Eggs, chickens, and feathers, says the writer, are the principal sources of profit from poultry. The number of eggs consumed as food in the United Kingdom every year is roughly estimated at 2,500,000,000. In 1855 the number of eggs imported from other countries was 10,005,200, and the number imported during the first six months of the present year shows a considerable increase in proportion. In the metropolis, the egg trade is a very important branch of commerce, giving employment to sixty egg merchants and salesmen on a large scale, exclusive of the number of shopkeepers who sell eggs. Again, large quantities of poultry are imported into this country, the value of the imports in this respect amounting during the first six months of the present

Much of the softness of good kid leather for gloves and shoes is said to arise from the use of the yolk of eggs. One leather factory in Bermondsey uses 70,000 or 80,000 eggs a year for this purpose. The white of eggs-which is pure albumen-when properly dried enters into commerce for several purposes in the arts, &c. It is exported in this dry and horny state to the West Indies, to be used in desiccating cane-juice. It is employed as a glaze, or species of varnish, by bookbinders, confectioners, &c., and as a clarifier for wines and syrups. It is used in photography, and by print-manufacturers at Manchester and other districts. It appears, moreover, that the value of foreign feathers imported into this country was £33,000 in the year 1854, and twelve millions and a half of goose and swan quills, valued at £10,282, were imported during the same year. Last year the quantity was considerably less; but averaging the value of the eggs, poultry, and feathers, &c., we receive from foreign countries, the writer