Change, not improvement, is the objectwhatever bears a resemblance to the past must be proscribed; and while other people study to simplify modes of instruction, the French legislature is intent on rendering them as difficult and complex as possible; and at the moment they decree that the whole country shall become learned, they make it an unfathomable science to teach urchins of half a dozen years old their letters.

When the first bell was ringing that noon, Piggy was piling up the primary urchins in wiggling, squealing piles at "crack the whip."

The first lad having such a collection, I thought I would look at the others, to see if their baskets were similarly supplied; I found them all alike without exception, I then became curious to know if these debauched little urchins found any purchasers, and, to ascertain the fact, I ensconced myself among some of the freight, and watched one of them.

Barry Cornwall has the following story in his Memoir of Lamb: Lamb, one day, encountered a small urchin loaded with a too heavy package of grocery.

The outgoing tide exposed starfish and sea-urchins, and the children tried to catch the flakes of foam which the wind blew away.

p the baby from squirming on to the floor, the plate from upsetting, and to feed the hungry urchins who stood in a row with open mouths, like young birds, was past my comprehension.

I have often remarked your lordship with admiration, talking big and blustering loud, so as to frighten urchins who were about half your lordship's size, when you had no precise meaning in any thing you said.

' Lancelot could not help, even at the risk of detection, investing capital enough in sugar-plums and gingerbread, to furnish the urchins around with the material for a whole carnival of stomach- aches; and he felt a great inclination to clear the fairing-stall in a like manner, on behalf of the poor bedizened sickly-looking girls round, but he was afraid of the jealousy of some beer-bemuddled swain.

"Saysay!" panted the urchin.

A constable took the urchin into custody, and accused him of robbing her of twenty-two shillings.

He was on the opposite bank; had crawled down it, only other boys can tell how, a barefooted urchin of ten or twelve, with an enormous bagful of worms hanging from his jacket button.

The menagerie included a dozen llamas, whose supercilious expression, inoffensive looks, and small sizethey are only three feet high at the shoulder tempted some little urchins to tease them.

Just as, in those dim old days in the pasture, when the short brown legs of the boy could not encompass him enough to gain a secure grip, he used to halt gently, and turn gently, for fear of unseating the urchin.

Then, above the hedge which separated the garden below from the embankment leading to the fort, he watched the urchins struggling and tumbling on the ground.

To bring those joyous urchins and little, laughing, dancing, playful girls into his house was not to be thought of.

fight!" yelled three or four urchins, dashing up to the spot.

They collect a few ragged urchins of natives, whom they teach to read and write their own languagethe English tongue being forbidden; and when these children return to their families, they are despised by them, as being effeminate and useless.