She is a lady in education and manners, and you need feel it no degradation to be instructed by her." "Oh, that will be nice! and I'll try to learn to do the work well, and to like it, too, to please you, my own, dear papa," she said, looking up lovingly into his face, her own growing very bright again.
"That is right, my dear little daughter," he returned, smiling kindly upon her.
"You asked just now," he went on, "if your mamma Vi would teach you these things.

When I asked her to become my wife, I promised that she should have no care or responsibility in the matter of training and looking after the welfare of the three children I then had; because her mother objected, that she was too young for such a burden: so now that I can live at home with my children, and have no business that need interfere, I shall do my best to be father and mother both to them." "How nice, papa!" she exclaimed joyfully.

"Oh, I do think we ought to be the happiest children in the world, with such a dear, kind father, and such a lovely home! But"-- her face clouded, and she sighed deeply.
"But what, my child ?" "I was thinking of that dreadful temper that is always getting the better of me.

But you will help me to conquer it, papa ?" she added, half inquiringly, half in assertion.
"I fully intend to do all in my power to that end," he said in a tender tone; "but, my beloved child, the hardest part of the battle must inevitably be your own.

You must watch and pray against that, your besetting sin, never allowing yourself to be a moment off your guard." "I mean to, papa; and you will watch me, and warn me when you see that I am forgetting ?" "I shall be constantly endeavoring to do so," he answered,--"trying to guard and guide all my children, looking carefully after their welfare, physical, mental, moral, and spiritual.
"To that end, I have just been examining some of the reading-matter which has been provided for them in my absence; and, so far as I have made myself acquainted with it, I decidedly approve it, as I expected I should; having all confidence in those who chose it for you,--grandpa Dinsmore and grandma Elsie.
"This little paper, 'The Youth's Companion,' strikes me as very entertaining and instructive, also of excellent moral tone.