FOR PREPARATION.-I. Who wrote this piece? (See the signature st the end.) Supposing that the event described actually occurred in the life of the author of this piece, about what year was it? (See Lessons I. and LXV. for the date of his birth.)

II. Write, with diacritical marks (as here indicated), dividing into syllables, marking the accent and the pronunciation of the important vowels, the following words: Shoul'-der, pret'-ty (prit'-), taid (sed), ǎn'-swered (serd), brought (brawt), pēo'-ple (pē'pl), min'-utes (-its), ǎx. Write these words in a column, and explain in each case the difficulties of spelling and pronunciation, as in the following model. (See spelling-lessons in the Appendix for fuller directions.)

WORDS. Shōul'-der.

EXPLANATION OF DIFFICULTIES OF SPELLING, ETC.

..uses the combination ou to represent the sound ō. It is more common to use o, oa, or ow; less common

to use oe, oo, cau, ew, eo, or au.

Pret'-ty (prit'ty)....uses e for i; more common to use i, y, ui, or u; less

said..

ǎn'-swered...... brought...

common, ee, ie, or o.

.uses ai for ĕ; more common, e or ca; less common, æ,

a, ei, eo, ie, u, or ue.

.w is silent; also an e in the final syllable.

uses ou for a; more common, aw, au, or o; less com. mon, oa. The gh also is silent. min'-utes (min'its). . uses u for ï (see above, pēo'-ple......

ǎx.

pretty"); also e silent. .uses eo for ē; more common, e, ea, ce, ie, ei, i, cy, and

æ; less common, uay.

...spelled by English authorities, and by Worcester, axe. WEBSTER'S DIACRITICAL MARKS: ā, ē, ī, ō, û, ÿ, long; ă, ě, Ĭ, ŏ, ǎ, y, short; câre, fär, last, fall, what; thêre, veil, term; pique, firm; done, fôr, do, wolf, food, foot; fûrl, rude, push; silent letters in italics; ç as s; ch as sh; e, eh, as k; g as j; g as in get; § as z; x as gz; n as in linger, link; th as in thine.

III. Explain the use of the apostrophe in winter's, what's, you've ;-the use of the hyphen in over-polite, and its omission in grindstone. What is the use of s in minutes? "Look out, good people!"-why is capital L used, and why the ! at the end?

IV. Define compliment, accosted, scud, rue, flattery, blistered, booby; use synonyms for these in the sentences where they occur, if possible. V. Why a smiling man"? (i. e., why did he smile ?) Explain the motive for the use of the words, "fine little fellow," "my man," "how old are you?" etc. Why did he pat the boy on the head?

(Dr. Frank

lin's style is regarded as a model of purity and simplicity. It contains many colloquial expressions, however, that should not be approved in writing; e. g., he frequently uses such phrases as "says I," "thinks I.") Point out some sentence in this piece which you think particularly clear and strong in style. What is the thought of the picce, stated in your own words? Compare the style and thought of this piece with that of Lesson I., on "The Whistle." Each conveys a moral.

XXXV. MARCH.

1. The cock is crowing,
The stream is flowing,
The small birds twitter,
The lake doth glitter,

The green field sleeps in the sun;
The oldest and youngest

Are at work with the strongest;

The cattle are grazing,

Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like one!

2. Like an army defeated,
The snow hath retreated,
And now doth fare ill

On the top of the bare hill;
The plowboy is whooping anon, anon.
There's joy in the mountains;
There's life in the fountains;
Small clouds are sailing,

Blue sky prevailing;

The rain is over and gone!

William Wordsworth.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Have you read any other selection from Wordsworth? (Lesson II., "The Kitten and the Falling Leaves"; Lesson XIII., "Alice Fell.") He is famed for deep thought, but sometimes wrote childish and whimsical pieces.

II. Plow'-boy, whoop'-ing (hoop'-), pre-vāil'-ing, small.

III. Explain the th in doth (expresses present time and person addressed); s in sleeps (present time and person spoken of); est in oldest (what form of the describing-word would you use, if only two things were compared?); ing in grazing; ed in defeated; ne in gone (past time). Difference in meaning between is and are? When do you use is, and when are? IV. "Twitter"-does this word indicate its meaning by its sound? What does "anon" mean? (" anon, anon "-again and again.)

V. Notice the rhymes, fare ill and bare hill. Do the English pronounce the h as strongly as we do? Anon rhymes with gone: this is the way the English pronounce gone. We ought to say gon, and not gôn. "Forty feeding like one "-what effect does this sentence have in painting the picture? Can you see, in imagination, how the scene looked? Why were the cattle so intent on eating? Was it the taste of the new grass growing after the shower, and the fact that the cattle had had no fresh grass all winter?

XXXVI. THE CAREFUL OBSERVER.

"You have lost a

1. A dervise was journeying alone in a desert, when two merchants suddenly met him. camel," said he to the merchants. they replied.

"Indeed we have,"

2. "Was he not blind in his right eye, and lame in his left leg?" said the dervise. "He was,” replied the merchants. "Had he not lost a front tooth?" had," said the merchants.

"He

"And was he not loaded with honey on one side, and with wheat on the other?" "Most certainly he was," they replied; "and, as you have seen him so lately, and marked him so particularly, you can, in all probability, conduct us to him."

3. "My friends," said the dervise, "I have never seen your camel, nor ever heard of him, but from you!" "A pretty story, truly," said the merchants; "but where are the jewels which formed a part of his burden?” “I

have seen neither your camel nor your jewels," repeated the dervise.

4. On this, they seized his person, and forthwith hurried him before the cadi; but, on the strictest search, nothing could be found upon him, nor could any evidence whatever be adduced to convict him either of falsehood or of theft.

5. They were about to proceed against him as a sorcerer, when the dervise, with great calmness, thus addressed the court: "I have been much amused with your surprise, and own that there has been some ground for your suspicions; but I have lived long and alone, and I can find ample scope for observation even in a desert.

6. "I knew that I had crossed the track of a camel that had strayed from its owner, because I saw no mark of any human footstep on the same route. I knew that the animal was blind of one eye, because it had cropped the herbage only on one side of its path; and that it was lame in one leg, from the faint impression which that particular foot had produced upon the sand.

7. "I concluded that the animal had lost one tooth, because, wherever it had grazed, a small tuft of herbage had been left uninjured in the center of its bite. As to that which formed the burden of the beast, the busy ants informed me that it was corn on the one side; and the clustering flies, that it was honey on the other."

Colton.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Who is a dervise? (spelled also dervis and dervish-a Turkish or Persian monk.) What country does he inhabit? (Western Asia.) What deserts are found there? For what purposes are camels used on deserts, and why used instead of horses or oxen? Who is a cadi? (A Turkish "justice of the peace.")

II. Copy spelling and pronunciation, and give explanations (according to form in Lesson XXXIV.) of joûr'-ney-ing (jûr'-ny-), (ey before ), hon'-ey (hun'y) (o as u and ey as ), friends (frendz), suspi'-cious (-pish'us), eropped (pped pronounced pt), strayed, seized, route (ou as oo), bug'-y, (biz'ÿ) eā′-di, dēr'-vise.

III. Explain the modification in meaning produced by the addition of ed in loaded, ly in lately, & in jewels, n in seen, r in your, est in strictest, ness in calmness, er in owner.

IV. Define sorcerer, ample, scope.

V. What persons, from their mode of life and the business that they are engaged in, are likely to become careful observers of the traces left by wild animals?—of the signs of change in the weather?-of the obstructions on railway-tracks?-of the signs of disease in men ?—of errors in printing?-of signs of dishonesty among people on the street?-of the indications of strength and speed in horses?

XXXVII. THE MARINER'S DREAM.

1. In slumbers of midnight the sailor-boy lay;
His hammock swung loose at the sport of the
wind,

But, watchworn and weary, his cares flew away,
And visions of happiness danced o'er his mind.

2. He dreamed of his home, of his dear native bowers, And pleasures that waited on life's merry morn ; While Memory stood sidewise, half covered with

flowers,

And restored every rose, but secreted its thorn.

3. Then Fancy her magical pinions spread wide,

And bade the young dreamer in ecstasy rise:
Now far, far behind him the green waters glide,
And the cot of his forefathers blesses his eyes.