cuted, and resulted so agreeably that it is likely to be adopted by others.

It is now two years since Caroline began her career. Her lungs grow strong by exercise, and she has the happiness that results from overcoming difficulties, from occupation, and from securing independence to herself, and to one whom she loves better than herself.

I have told you this long story, my dear children, to show you to what good account the attainment of reading well may be turned. The demand for readers would increase, if, to use the market phrase, there were a supply of the fitting article; and persons who now earn a livelihood painfully and laboriously by stitching, stitching, stitching, might earn a better one far more agreeably by reading aloud.

Diseases of the eye are very prevalent, especially among the rich. Were it easy to obtain good readers, those who cannot read with their own eyes would consider a reader a necessary appendage. It would be discreditable to live without one.

What a blessing a good reader would be in the ante-room of an oculist, where twenty people, more or less, are assembled, and are waiting and counting the leaden minutes for hours. Such a reader as Caroline Richards would be a ministering angel to them.

But it is not merely as a source of profit, that I earnestly recommend the study of the art of reading to my young friends; it is that they may add to the social blessings of home, that they may lighten the weary hours of the invalid, and have a solace for their aged friends. Loud reading is a true economy when "mother and the girls are sewing."

"There is that which enricheth him who giveth more than fine gold, and him who receiveth more than precious stones," saith an Eastern proverb.