the coo-coo is approached; and then, when near enough to see the doves, to remain quiet behind a tree, is the surest way to see everything else.

6. The thrush will not move from her nest if passed so quietly; the chaffinch's lichen-made nest will be caught sight of against the elm-trunk—it would escape notice otherwise; the whitethroat may be watched in the nettles almost underneath; a rabbit will sit on his haunches and look at you from among the bare green stalks of brake rising; mice will rustle under the ground-ivy's purple flowers; a mole perhaps may be seen, for at this time they often leave their burrows and run along the surface; and indeed so numerous are the sights and sounds and interesting things, that you will soon be conscious of the fact, that while you watch one, two or three more are escaping you. It would be the same with any other search as well as the dove; I choose the dove because by then all the other creatures are come and are busy, and because it is a fairly large bird with a distinctive note, and consequently a good guide.

Richard Jefferies.

chaf'-finch
con'-se-quent-ly

cap'-il-lar-y tubes, thin hair-like tubes.

com-par-a-tive-ly large, large as
likened to others.

lich'-en, a green or yellow flower-
less plant, growing in spots
or patches on rocks, trees,
&c.
brake, fern.

bur'-rows, holes in the ground.
con'-scious, aware; know fully.
dis-tinct'-ive, different from any
others.

EXERCISES.-1. The Latin prefix in- (which has also the forms ig-, il-, im-, in-, ir-), before adjectives, means not; as invisible, not visible; ignoble, not noble; illegal, not legal; impure, not pure; irregular, not regular; infant (literally), not speaking.

2. Analyse and parse the following: 'I choose the dove because by then all the other creatures are come and are busy.'

3. Make sentences of your own, and use in each one or more of the following words: Locality, secluded, invisible, ignoble.

AN INDIAN AT THE BURYING-PLACE OF HIS FATHERS.

[This piece is by William Cullen Bryant, an original and popular American poet.]

1. It is the spot I came to seek

My fathers' ancient burial-place,

Ere from these vales, ashamed and weak,

Withdrew our wasted race.

It is the spot-I know it well

Of which our old traditions tell.

2. For here the upland bank sends out A ridge toward the river-side;

I know the shaggy hills about,

The meadows smooth and wide;
The plains, that toward the southern sky,
Fenced east and west by mountains lie.

3. A white man, gazing on the scene,
Would say a lovely spot was here,
And praise the lawns so fresh and green
Between the hills so sheer.

I like it not-I would the plain
Lay in its tall old groves again.

4. The sheep are on the slopes around,
The cattle in the meadows feed,

And labourers turn the crumbling ground,
Or drop the yellow seed;

And prancing steeds, in trappings gay,
Whirl the bright chariot o'er the way.

5. Methinks it were a nobler sight

To see these vales in woods arrayed, Their summits in the golden light, Their trunks in grateful shade; And herds of deer, that bounding go O'er rills and prostrate trees below. 6. And then to mark the lord of all, The forest hero, trained to wars, Quivered and plumed, and lithe and tall, And seamed with glorious scars, Walk forth, amid his reign, to dare The wolf, and grapple with the bear.

7. This bank, in which the dead were laid, Was sacred when its soil was ours; Hither the artless Indian maid

Brought wreaths of beads and flowers, And the gray chief and gifted seer Worshipped the god of thunders here. 8. But now the wheat is green and high On clods that hid the warrior's breast, And scattered in the furrows lie

The weapons of his rest;

And there, in the loose sand is thrown
Of his large arm the mouldering bone.

9. Ah little thought the strong and brave,
Who bore their lifeless chieftain forth,
Or the young wife, that weeping gave
Her first-born to the earth-

That the pale race, who waste us now,
Among their bones should guide the plough.

10. They waste us-ay, like April snow,
In the warm noon we shrink away;
And fast they follow, as we go
Towards the setting day-

Till they shall fill the land, and we
Are driven into the western sea.

11. But I behold a fearful sign,

To which the white men's eyes are blind;
Their race may vanish hence, like mine,
And leave no trace behind-

Save ruins o'er the region spread,

And the white stones above the dead.

12. Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed; The melody of waters filled

The fresh and boundless wood:

And torrents dashed, and rivulets played,
And fountains spouted in the shade.

13. Those grateful sounds are heard no more:
The springs are silent in the sun,

The rivers, by the blackened shore,
With lessening current run;

The realm our tribes are crushed to get,

May be a barren desert yet.

Bryant.

EXERCISES.-1. The Latin prefix inter- means between, among; as intervene, to come between; interpose, to place between; interrupt, to break in among.

2. Analyse and parse the following:

"This bank, in which the dead were laid,

Was sacred when its soil was ours.'

3. Make sentences of your own, and use in each one or more of the following words: Summit, scars, vanish, current.

TRAVELLING IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. [This extract is from Macaulay's popular and well-known History of England from the Accession of James II. ]

ther from Reading than they are now

from Edinburgh,

and farther from Edinburgh than they now are from

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