PREAD, O spread, thou mighty word, Teli them how the Father's will Tell of our Redeemer's love, Tell them of the Spirit given BOY re The hornets' nest, which was a ported that large one, was attached to a shelvin crossing ing rock, ten or twelve feet high Rock Pas- from the ground; and the plan of ture he had attack was that all should approach discovered it together, as near as was prudent, a hornets' and discharge a volley of stones nest! The at it, and run away. By night, after school, the hornets would get quiet, when the attack was to be repeated. news spread among the boys of the neighbourhood with the rapidity and interest of a proclamation of war. They resolved unanimously to go and attack it. Accordingly, the next morning, an hour before school, a dozen of them were seen going with great zeal towards Rock Pasture. In this way the boys kept at it, with fresh recruits joining them from time to time, for nearly a fortnight. Now and then one of them would get stung; but this only made their cause a proper one, in their view, and increased |