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A second time Dr. Warwick did what he could to relieve it. and 

 again put it into the water. It continued for several times to thiow 

 itself out of the pond, and, with the assistance of the keeper, the doc- 

 tor at length made a kind of pillow for the fish, which was then left 

 in the pond to its fate. Upon making his appearance at the pond 

 on the following morning, the pike came towards him to the edge 

 of the water, and actually laid its head upon his foot. The doctor 

 thought this most extraordinary ; but he examined the fish's skull, 

 and found it going on all right. He then walked backwards and 

 forwards along the edge of the pond for some time, and the fish con- 

 tinued to swim up and down, turning whenever he turned ; but being 

 blind on the wounded side of its skull, it always appeared agitated 

 when it had that side to the bank, as it could not then see its bene- 

 factor. On the next day he took some young friends down to see 

 the fish, which came to him as usual ; and at length he actually 

 taught the pike to come to him at his whistle, and feed out of his 

 hands. With other persons it continued as shy as fish usually are. 

 He (Dr. Warwick) thought this a most remarkable instance of grat- 

 itude in a fish for a benefit received ; and as it always came to his 

 whistle, it proved also what he had previously, with other natural- 

 ists, disbelieved that fishes are sensible to sound. 



Neatness and Order. 



ARE you a little boy ? Learn that good old lesson found in the 

 maxim, " a place for everything, and everything in its place." Your 

 books, your pen, ink, and paper. And when you are at work, take 

 care of your tools, and see that they are put up carefully when you 

 have done. Do things at the right time, and you will have time to 

 do them, and to do them right. 



Are you a little girl ? Learn the same lesson. Do not throw 

 down your geography here, your grammar there, and your slate 

 and pencil yonder. When you are at work, do it as if you were in 

 earnest about it ; and when you have finished any piece of work, do 

 not throw things helter-skelter, and leave them for your mother to 

 pick up and put away. 



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