permitted to retire, though under guard of an officer. After a short absence, he returned with more humility in his looks, and said that he pleaded guilty, and threw himself on the mercy of the court. The Judge then made a speech of some length, for the purpose of convincing the prisoner, as well as the bystanders, of the enormity of the crime. He then pronounced the following sen

tence:

"You, Peter Riot, are hereby sentenced to pay the sum of half-a-crown to the public treasury, as a satisfaction for the mischief you have done, and your attempt to conceal it. You are to repair to the house of Widow Careful, accompanied by such witnesses as we shall appoint, and there, having first paid her the sum you owe her, you shall ask her pardon for the insult you offered her. You shall likewise, tomorrow, after school, stand up in your

place, and before all the scholars ask pardon for the disgrace you have been the means of bringing upon the society; and in particular you shall apologize to master Luckless, for the disagreeable circumstance you were the means of bringing him into. Till all this is complied with, you shall not presume to come into the play-ground, or join in any of the diversions of the school; and all persons are hereby admonished not to keep you company till this is done."

Riot was then dismissed to his room; and in the afternoon he was taken to the widow's, who was pleased to receive his submission graciously, and at the same time to apologize for her own improper treatment of master Luckless, to whom she sent a present of a nice ball by way of amends.

Thus ended this important business.

THE LEGUMINOUS PLANTS.

Tutor-George-Harry.

G. What a delightful smell!

H. Charming! It is sweeter than Mr. Essence's shop.

T. Do you know whence it comes? G. O-it is from the bean-field on the other side of the hedge, I suppose.

T. It is. This is the month in which beans are in blossom. See the stalks are full of their black and white flowers.

H. I see peas in blossom, too, on the other side of the field.

G. You told us some time ago of grass and corn-flowers, but they make a poor figure compared to these.

7. They do. The glory of a cornfield is when it is ripe; but peas and

beans look very shabbily at that time. But suppose we take a closer view of these blossoms. Go you, George, and bring me a bean-plant; and you, Harry,

a pea.

[They go and bring them.

T. Now let us sit down and compare

them. Do you think these flowers much alike?

H. O no-very little.

G. Yes a good deal!

T. A little and a good deal! How can that be? come let us see.

In the first place, they do not much resemble each other in size or colour.

G. No-but I think they do in shape.

T. True. They are both irregular flowers, and have the same distribution of parts. They are of the kind called papilionaceous, from papilia, the Latin word for a butterfly, which insect they are thought to resemble.

G. The pea does a little, but not much.

T. Some do much more than these. Well-you see first a broad leaf standing upright, but somewhat bent back; this is named the standard. On each side are two narrower, called the wings. The under side of the flower is formed of a hollow part resembling a boat: this is called a keel.

G. It is very like a boat indeed!

T. In some kinds, however, it is divided in the middle, and so is like a boat split in two. All these parts have claws which unite to form a tube, set in a calyx, or flower-cup. This tube, you observe, is longer in the bean than in the pea, and the proportions of the other parts are somewhat different; but the parts themselves are found in both. H. So they are. I think them alike

now.

T. That is the consequence of examining closely. Now let us strip off