Bastards! CHIL.

SIR GYLES GOOSECAPPE, Knight, A Comedy presented by the Chil. of the Chappell.

At tea, Chil the kite, hovering in mid-air, watched us jealously.

God loves each lit-tle bird; but still More ten-der is His care For chil-dren who o-bey His will, Than for the fowls of air.

Through the corn the chil-dren creep, Where the nod-ding pop-pies sleep, Fill-ing hands and a-prons white With the scar-let blos-soms bright.

joice In Him who loves His chil-dren so.

See these mer-ry chil-dren four, Now their les-son time is o'er, Deal-ing with the bat-tle-dore Steady blow on blow; Till the fea-thered shut-tle-cocks Fly at their al-ter-nate knocks, "Re-gu-lar as kitch-en clocks," Spin-ning to and fro.

[Illustration: The long-billed Snipe fre-quents our clime About the chil-ly au-tumn time.

An In-di-an tem-ple on the floor The chil-dren build with wood-en bricks, They've placed two pil-lars by the door, And on the roof they now would fix A good tall spire, so Et-ty takes A long-er brick, and sets it there;

Chil let om blood, but yet it is no time, Untill the zygne be gone below the hart.

The Madrassa, or College, the governor's palace, and "Chil Situn," or "Palace of the Forty Pillars," are the only buildings that still retain some traces of their former glory.

The palace of "Chil Situn," or "The Forty Pillars," is like most Persian palacesthe same walled gardens with straight walks, the usual avenues of cypress trees, and the inevitable tank of stone or marble in the centre of the grounds.

" "Alway jes' so, Miss Darlin', ever sence she was little chil'.

" "Why, where did you come from, chil?" said the lady, with a start of astonishment.

The Lord have mercy on my poor chil', 'n' take care of her, if anything happens!

"She was very difficult; so I left the children with her and" "Chil" said Mrs. Prentice, and paused, unable to complete the word.

Where the vir | -gins are soft as the ros | -es they twine, And all, | save the spir | -it of man, | is divine? 'Tis the land | of the East- | 't is the clime | of the Sun Can he smile | on such deeds | as his chil | -dren have done?

O, Miss 'Lindy, doan' you hyuh me, chil', Merlindy!

"I was a teasin', mis-che-vious chil' an' de overseer's little gal got it in for me.

"De Chil's place was at Livingston, Alabama, on Alamucha Creek.

Dat's where I was born, but I jus' did git borned good when Miss Lizzieshe was Marse Chil's girlmarried Marse John C. Higgins an' moved to Mer-ree-dian.

"Old Mis' wouldn' have nothin' more to do wid 'er, same as if she warnt her own chil'.

I got one gran-chil' I loves jus' lak my own chillun.

My pappy were a old man when I were bornI were de baby chil'.

She had one gal-chil'.