"You Mary Lewis, "for I never saw any body so patient as sne was with her little brother who was sometimes very cross." 19. "And she has not lost this opportunity for improving in her religious education,'" resumed the teacher. all saw her last week, at her mother's funeral, subduing the grief of her little sisters, by her quiet resignation, and affectionate devotion to them. Ah, she has been taking lessons in more important branches of education, than are taught in schools. 20. "So you see, my young friends, that life is a schoola primary school; and that we are all scholars, and are al preparing for a day of examination, when the infallible all-seeing Judge will decide how we have profited by our means of education." QUESTIONS.-1. What question did the teacher ask? 2. What did Mary Bliss answer? 3. Why did Sarah Johnson think this answer right? 4. What did Maria Jarvis ask? 5. What did the teacher say was a religious education? 6. A physical education? 7. What said Mary Lewis? 8. What is moral education? 9. What said Anne? 10. What is intellectual education? 11. Economical education? 12. How are we assisting each other? 13. What was said of Lucy Davis? 14. What important lessons had she been learning at home? When different persons are introduced as speaking, how should their remarks be read? (See Les. X.) How do the questions beginning the first and fourth verses differ, and what inflections does each require? Is the first question in the second verse, direct or indirect? Why is the proper name in that question read with the rising inflection? (See Rule IV. Note I.) Is this lesson didactic or conversational ? LESSON XIII. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Duffel, thick woolen cloth. 2. Auld, old. 3. Canty, cheerful. 4. Trespass, the act of entering upon another's land and doing offense or injury. 5. Detected, found out. 6. Crisp, stiffened so as to be brittle. 7. Casement, movable window; a part of a window. [The following exquisitely fine ballad, in the genuine spirit of the old English song is founded on a well authenticated fact, mentioned by Dr. Darwin, as an instance of maniacal hallucination or mental delusion.] Goody Blake and Harry Gill.-WORDSWORTH. 1. On! what's the matter? what's the matter? What is't that ails young Harry Gill? That evermore his teeth they chatter, Chatter, chatter, chatter still. Of waistcoats Harry has no lack, And coats enough to smother nine. poor, 4. All day she spun in her poor dwelling, 5. By the same fire to boil their pottage, 5. But when the ice our streams did fetter, Her evenings then were dull and dread; And then for cold not sleep a wink. 7. Oh joy for her! whene'er in winter, 8. Now when the frost was past enduring, 9. Now Harry he had long suspected 10. And once behind a rick of barley, He softly creeps-'Tis Goody Blake! 11. Right glad was he when he beheld her: When with her load she turned about, 12. And fiercely by the arm he took her, And fiercely by the arm he shook her, 13. She prayed, her withered hand uprearing, 14. He went complaining all the morrow His face was gloom, his heart was sorrow,— That day he wore a riding coat, 15. Twas all in vain-a useless matter. 16. No word to any man he utters, Abed or up, by night or day, QUESTIONS.-1. Who was Harry Gill? 2. What is said of Goody Blake? 3. Where did she live? 4. How did she fare in winter? 5. Where did she go for fuel? 6. How did Harry detect her? 7. How did he treat her? 8. What did Goody then do? 9. What happened ta Harry Gill? 10. How did he try to keep himself warm? 1. What are we taught in this narrative in regard to our treatment of the poor? What inflections do the questions in the first verse take? What, at the end of second line, second verse? (See Rule VI. Note 1.) What, at farmer, last verse? (Rule IV. Note 1) With what peculiar modulation should the tenth verse be read? How should the different quotations be read, to express the feelings of the speakers? NOTE. When such questions are asked, the teacher should require the pupil to read the passages to which reference is made. LESSON XIV. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Ministered, did service. 2. Precious, of great value; here means, rare or scarce. 3. Vision, something made known from God; the act of seeing; a phantom. 4. Wax, to grow; to become. 5. Erc, before. 6. Revealed, inade known. 7. Restrained, held back from sin; to check. NOTE.-The Italic words in the Bible extracts are emphatic, though those in the Bible itself are not, but they were supplied by the translators to complete the sense, being implied but not expressed in the original. Marks of quotation, as in the Bible, are not made. The Calling of Samuel.-BIBLE. 1. AND the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious in those days: there was no open vision. And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his pláce, and his eyes began to wax dim that he could not sée; and ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God wás, and Samuel was laid down to sleep; that the Lord called Samuel; and he answered, Hère am I'. And he ran unto Eli, and said, Hère am I'; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called nòt; lie down again. And he went and lay down. 2. And the Lord called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Hère am I'; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called nòt, my són; lie down |