that cheeses must be made with so much care, and then be watched and attended to for weeks and weeks.

It pleased us, too, to see them make the balls of butter and then to stamp them for the market. Henry said he should not think they would like to take so much pains to prepare butter and cheese to sell; but our mother told him that people in cities would come off rather poorly if somebody did not take the pains. Besides, she told him the farming people want some things that they must get from cities. Still Henry thought the farmers ought to have the first and the best; and I think so too.

They gathered the hay in the meadows while we were in the country; and we had some nice rides down in the hay carts and back upon the top of the loads of hay. O, I shall never forget how smooth and beautiful the green meadows looked after the hay was all raked up, nor how neatly the border of shrubbery and trees had grown of itself all along the brook and edges of the meadow. Our mother says God's world is very beautiful.

are prepared with care? For what do farmers make a part of what they make? Do they need some things from cities? What can you say of haying in the meadows? What is beautiful.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

THOU shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the

132 FIRST LESSONS IN GENTLENESS AND TRUTH.

Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.