the monster rushing on him, still less those when I saw the brute's huge trunk twine round and take him up. All this occurred in less than a minute. The collector was, of course, very faint. We gave up the pursuit, and got some brandy-and-water, which revived him. He told us that he had advanced till within six yards of the elephant, and then fired, thinking that, as usual, it would retreat, instead of which it charged him.

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11. He then fired a second time, within three yards of the beast, and fled; but the animal gained upon him he threw his gun at it, and tried to run round a tree; but it was too cunning, and ran round. the tree also, seized him by the neck, and threw him down. It then attempted to gore him. Luckily, the tusks stuck into the ground on each side of him, and thus he was preserved.

12. The collector then felt the brute take him up in his trunk; he heard my shot, and immediately found himself on the ground. He quietly lay there a second or two, then inclined himself slightly, and perceived that the elephant's back was toward him. The animal must have carried away at least twenty balls. Perhaps he was led to select the collector on account of his being dressed in bright white jean.

13. Four days after our exploit, a report reached us that some hunters had killed the elephant, which had continued to wander about the place where he had been wounded. It was fourteen feet long from the root of the tail to the joining of the trunk to the head, and eleven feet high. My balls had struck in

the neck and left eye, and the head was terribly

Trans-fer'.... to carry or bring over... to remove.

Trans-cribe'... to write over

Trans-fix to pierce through

Trans-late

to copy.

to fix by piercing through. to explain.

1. It was the schooner "Hesperus That sailed the wintry sea,

And the skipper had taken his little daughter
To bear him company.

2. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax,
Her cheeks like the dawn of day,

And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds
That ope in the month of May.

3. Down came the storm, and smote amain
The vessel in her strength;

She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed,
Then leaped her cable's length.

4. "Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, And do not tremble so;

For I can weather the roughest gale

That ever wind did blow."

5. He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat Against the stinging blast;

He cut a rope from a broken spar,

And bound her to the mast.

6. "O father! I hear the church bells ring;
O say, what may it be?"-

""Tis a fog-bell on a rock-bound coast!"
And he steered for the open sea.

7. "O father, I hear the sound of guns;
what may it be?"-

O say,
"Some ship in distress, that cannot live
In such an angry sea!"

8. "O father! I see a gleaming light;
O say, what may it be?"

But the father answered never a word,—
A frozen corpse was he!

9. And fast through the midnight dark and drear,
Through the whistling sleet and snow,
Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Towards the reef of Norman's Woe.

10. To the rocks and breakers right ahead
She drifted, a dreary wreck,

And a whooping billow swept the crew
Like icicles from her deck.

11. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool;

But the cruel rocks, they gored her sides
Like the horns of an angry bull.

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12. At day-break on the bleak sea-beach A fisherman stood aghast,

To see the form of a maiden fair

Lashed close to a drifting mast.

13. The salt sea was frozen on her breast,
The salt tears in her eyes;

And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed,
On the billows fall and rise.

STONE walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for a hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.

ETYMOLOGY.

TYMOLOGY treats of words, their classification, inflexion and structure.

A word which is in its simplest form and cannot be traced further is called a Roor. When such a word undergoes an alteration of form, either by a modification of the letters or by an addition, the new form is called a PRIMARY DERIVATIVE or STEM.

If from the stem-word other words are formed by PREFIXES OF AFFIXES, they are called SECONDARY DERIVATIVES. Words like glass, strong, love, for example, are roots; words like glaze, strength, lovely are primary derivatives; words like glazier, strengthen, loveliness, are secondary derivatives. A PREFIX is placed before, an AFFIX after the root, as, contract, contractor.

Recapitulation of previous exercises :—

AFFIXES (see Third Reader).

FORMING ADJECTIVES.

Ful-full of-beautiful, careful, plentiful, merciful, sorrowful, playful.

Less without; want of-careless, merciless, fatherless, cloudless, painless, fearless.

En-made of-brazen, earthen, wooden, woollen, oaken, leathern Ous-full of-courageous, dangerous, beauteous, plenteous, piteous, zealous.

Ish-like childish, girlish, heathenish, roguish, slavish, thievish.