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 how to use it to give orders. It was like playing he was field marshal at some great military occasion. The pony seemed to enter into the spirit of the game, by leaping forward with great effect.

The king had a court painter named Velasquez, of whom he was very fond. Velasquez had become much attached to the royal household, and hiked nothing so much as to paint the portrait of the young prince to please the king. He had visited the riding-school to watch the boy's progress in horsemanship, and often saw him on his country rides. The inspiration came to him that he could make a splendid picture of the scene, and he threw himself into this task with unusual enthusiasm. He used a large canvas, which made the subject seem very real and lifelike. The king was so proud of it that he kept it in his favorite palace, and it has been handed down to our own day in all its original beauty.

The highest aim of every faithful parent is to impress upon the children the necessity of fighting against temptation. So great is the power of evil in the world that we have come to speak of it in personified form as a terrible beast going about seeking whom he may devour, or in Biblical phrase as the fallen angel Satan, the arch-deceiver, who makes wrongdoing attractive and lures the weak to destruction. The old legend of St. George and the Dragon is really an allegory in which the soul's victory over sin is expressed. An attractive picture of this subject, like Raphael's or Carpaccio's, will be a great help in the home in teaching the desired moral. The subject