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THE GOLDEN RULE 
BV HUES’ E. Hr.XPORb. 
Our saviour, when be was on earth, 
Laid down a blessed rule, 
That every little child should heed, 
At play, at homo, or school. 
“ Do unto others as you would 
That they should do to you;” 
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Our kindest words alone. 
And If our angry thoughts are stirred 
Let tills our prompting bo : 
‘‘I’ll do to others us I would 
That they should do to me.” 
OUR CANARY, 
Hed\uAc\jV d. s.9 .r '~ 
SUNLIGhl-i'JL’ AND SHADOW. 
J"u.st over the wall tliat sliuts omt sin some pwnislnnent ever waits 
knew a bird nearly starved from a little 
mouse riddling the seeds like a thief in the 
night before they were given to the bird. 
Remember, also, the kind word; our Abe 
will listen for it, as If lie had a human heart. 
II. L. D. 
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ILLUSTRATED REBUS-No. 29, 
true eyes; it seemed to me 1 never lost their 
impression; it was the first and the last, 
time I ever met them. So I called my bird 
Abe; and, womanlike, poor little fellow, 1 
have loved him the better for his name. 
Abe grew every day, in the pleasant shade 
and sunshine of that first summer; twittered 
and chirruped and put his little head out 
between the wires until, before autumn, he 
poured his full, rich, maiden song upon the 
air. lie had a double note away down iu 
his little throat. All through the summer 
lie sang on the piazza, and shared his abun¬ 
dance of cauary seed with many a lit tle yel¬ 
low bird, brown bird, or gray bird from the 
garden, who would come, t wo or three at a 
time, to pick up the stray seeds scattered 
on the balconies of Ahe‘s cage. We bad 
in those, days a little colored lad from St. 
Thomas, indolent, yet at the very same time 
an imp of mischief, with a vast deal of nat¬ 
ural poetry about him. lie would slip away 
from his work, and lie in the sunshine undis¬ 
turbed as long as he could, watching Abe, as 
lie said, “ entertain his little friends;” and 
when the cage was replenished he would 
cry, “O a little outside, just, a little outside 
for Abe’s friends I” The number of Abe’s 
friends increased rapidly,—perhaps his pros¬ 
perity brought them; it has the credit of 
doing so generally, 
So, from t his eventful year of Abe’s birth 
through success and defeat, all through our 
national struggle — free from the wearing 
cares of the more illustrious Abe of the 
White House—the little namesake lifted up 
his song of cheer. 
That sunny day ’hen we heard of the de¬ 
feat at Bull Run, ; d all hearts were sick, 
Abe’s song was ehe. ry as Yankee Doodle. 
He had a little flag over his cage when 
Vicksburg was taken, —when Richmond 
was ours,—and for Peace — a little flag that 
was half mast for long, long months after 
the sad tidings of our President's death. 
Then Abe became more and more illustri¬ 
ous; Ills name was his honor; any other 
bird might be called Abe, but he, he had 
worn those three letters through good report 
and evil report—when friends spoke severely 
—when they doubted and blamed. All the 
time Abraham Lincoln had struggled and 
prayed, until peace came, and he died the 
martyr, our dear little green bird, with the 
yellow round his throat, had been called 
“Abe,” and had answered with a turn of his 
lit tle Lead and a chirp. 
Our Abe has had some narrow escapes 
from death, for which we arc thankful. I re¬ 
member one, particularly, it was a lovely 
day in November, one of those soft amber 
days of the Indian summer, when we hung 
Abe’s cage on the nail outside one of the 
pillars of the piazza,—a favorite exposure. 
All day lie reveled iu the sunshine ; but be 
was forgotten at sundown. A furious wind 
sprung up, and blew a hurricane; down rat¬ 
tled on the roof the large brown nuts of the 
horse-chestnut tree, helping on the racket of 
the elements. All were in bed but myself 
and a young Irish girl, when 1 noticed Abe’s 
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been in the summer, when the garden and 
neighboring Iree-top was inviting; yet, it 
ever seemed to ns Abe was glad to return. 
Our Abe lias been the father of a fine fami¬ 
ly,—Ms mate a canary from Philadelphia. 
We tied a little basket to the upper part of 
the cage, near to a perch, so A lie might feed 
the inmates; furnished a handful of deer’s 
hair for the nest; then the yolk of a hard- 
boiled egg, ami some cracker crumbs from 
which they fed the little ones. 
Abe was a faithful lather; but he has sur¬ 
vived his entire family,—-Mrs. Abe and all! 
He is still a fine, healthy bird, in the very 
prime and vigor of birdhood, and we hope 
lie lias yet many years to live. He has had 
his little illnesses. When molting season 
comes we put the. saffron iu his water cup 
and arc careful not, to expose him to damp 
or cold. We remember, too, to bang beyond 
bis reach in his cage the bag of crushed 
brimstone; that and a clean cage keep olf 
insect life from among his feathers—other¬ 
wise we have seen birds suffer seriously. 
So Abe has lived and sung year after 
.year, a henlthy bird. We never stair him 
with bits of bread, apples or cake. Wc 
would not spoil our sweet singer by making 
him dyspeptic ! Yet Abo is a prisoner after 
all. a sort of slave to minister with his song 
to our pleasure. Into this slavery lie was 
born; in this slavery he must die, far away 
from his ancestral skies and freedom. 
I think it mu - duty, the duty of every one 
having a canary, to remember this, and to 
make their little bird’s prison-life comfort¬ 
able as possible. Our birds may suffer much 
from neglect, We had a lrieud who, going 
from home for a month’s visit, left her canary 
to the care of a servant, who forgot to attend 
to its necessities; tlie goor little bird was 
found on my friend’s return starved to death 
in bis cage. Another left her bird out of 
doors through a violent thunder storm; the 
poor little creature was actually drowned in 
the shower. 
Gentle care-talcers of these sweet singers, 
let them have the sun and the shade; let 
them share freely from behind their wire 
bars in all tire fresh air and sweet fragrance 
of the summer-time. Have the choicest spot 
for the nail on which their prison hangs 
when out of doors; and in winter give them 
the warm, but not loo close, corner of the 
cheerful sitting-room, You may have to 
read or sing a little louder to make your 
voice heard above your bird’s song, but it 
will be a happy one. Do not forget the 
fresh, cool water, and the good seed. We 
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