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The Better Ctoice.-A Quaker, residing at Paris, was waited on by four workmen, in order to make their compliments, and ask for their usual New Year's gifts.

 ''Well, my friends,'' said the Quaker, shere are your gifts choose fifteen francs, or the BibIe.D

 < l don't know how to read,'' said the first, 'sso l take the fifteen lrancs''

 '' l can read" said the second, '..but have pressing wants" He took the fifteen francs. The third also made the same choice. He now came to the fourth, lad about thirteen or fourteen years of age. The Quaker looked at him with an air of goodness.

 '' Will you take these three pieces, which you may attain at any tune by your labor and industry?"

 ssAs you say the book Is good, I will take 1t and read 1t to my mother" replied the boy. He took the Bible, opened 1t, and found be- tween the leaves gold piece of forty francs.

 The others hung down their heads, and the Quaker said he was sorry they had not made better choice