WHY is Air not an article of value ?-Because, though it is very useful, it is to be had for nothing.

2. Why is some scarce kind of stone, that is of no use or beauty, not an article of value ?-Because, though it be not a thing that every one can get, no one desires it.

3. Why is a healthy constitution not an article of value?-Because, though it be very desirable, and is not what every one can get, it is not transferable; that is, cannot be transferred, or parted with by one person to another.

4. Why is a spade an article of value ?-Because it is, first, desirable, as being of use; secondly, limited in supply; that is, it is not what every one can have for nothing; and thirdly, transferable; that is, one person can part with it to another.

5. Why is a silver spoon of more value than a spade ?-Because, though it be not more useful, it

is more limited in supply (or harder to be got), on account of the difficulty of working the mines of silver.

6. When anything that is desirable is to be had by labour, and is not to be had without labour, of course we find men labouring to obtain it; and things that are of very great value, will usually be found to have cost very great labour. This has led some persons to suppose that it is the labour which has been bestowed on anything that gives it value. But this is quite a mistake. It is not the labour which anything has cost that causes it to sell for a high price; but, on the contrary, it is its selling for a high price that causes men to labour in procuring it.

7. For instance, fishermen go out to sea, and toil hard in the wet and cold for fish, because they can get a good price for them; but if a fisherman should work hard all night, and catch but one small fish, while another had, perhaps, caught a thousand, by falling in with a shoal, the first would not be able to sell his one fish for the same price as the other man's thousand; though it would have cost him the same labour. It has now and then happened that a salmon or a sturgeon has leaped into a boat by chance; but though this has cost no labour, it is not for that reason the less valuable. And if a man, in eating an oyster, should chance to meet with a fine pearl, it would not sell for less than if he had been diving for it all day.

8. It is not, therefore, labour that makes things valuable, but their being valuable that makes them

worth labouring for. And God, having judged in His wisdom that it is not good for man to be idle, has so appointed things by His Providence, that few of the things that are most desirable can be obtained without labour. It is ordained for man to eat bread in the sweat of his face; and almost all the necessaries, comforts, and luxuries of life, are obtained by labour.

Ad, also written a, ac, af, ag, al, an, ap, ar, as, at

Secondary Meaning, or Synonomous Meaning. to remain fixed.

to make fit.

to climb.

to unite.

to attend to.

to make known.

THE BUILDERS.

Ar'-chi-tects, designers; builders.

Mas'-sive, strong; durable.

Mi-nute', very small.

Rhyme, poetry.

Struc'-ture, building.

Tur'-rets, small towers at the top of a building.

Am'-ple, sufficient.

1. ALL are architects of Fate

Working in these walls of Time,
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.

2. Nothing useless is, or low-
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.

3. For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays

Are the blocks with which we build.

4. Truly shape and fashion these;
Leave no yawning gaps between;
Think not because no man sees,
Such things will remain unseen.

5. In the elder days of art

Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part;

For the gods see everywhere.

6. Let us do our work as well,

Both the unseen and the seen;
Make the house where gods may dwell
Beautiful, entire and clean.

7. Else our lives are incomplete,

Standing in these walls of Time,
Broken stairways, where the feet
Stumble as they seek to climb.

8. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base;

And ascending and secure

Shall to-morrow find its place.

9. Thus alone can we attain

To those turrets, where the eye
Sees the world as one vast plain,
And one boundless reach of sky.

An-te-cham'-ber... the room before the

Secondary Meaning, or
Synonomous Phrases.

prior.

to anticipate.

to foresee; to prevent.

one who lived before the deluge.

principal apartment... waiting room. An-te-mer-id'-ian..... (A.M.) before midday... before noon.

FEW Sundays ago, at the time of the recent

severe weather when the ground was covered with snow, I was standing outside our front gate with one of my sisters, when I noticed a large blackand-white sheep-dog running about the lawn in front of the house in a very excited manner, now