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FRANCE, IN OLD TIMES.


"Please to tell me a story, about old times, dear grandfather," said a boy of twelve years old, as he laid aside the book in which he had been studying. "I have got my lesson, and wish you would tell me about France, and about my relations who lived there."

Now the venerable grandfather, to whom he spoke, was a Huguenot. Do you know what a Huguenot is? It was a name given to some religious people in France, who were not satisfied with the Roman Catholic faith, and wished to worship God differently. They had