gomery, had been worsted at the ropewalk, formed with a corporal in front and Preston following. With bayonets fixed, they "rushed through the people," upon the trot, cursing them, and pushing them as they went along. They found about ten persons round the sentry, while about fifty or sixty came down with them.

6. "For God's sake," said Knox, holding Preston by the coat, "take your men back again; if they fire, your life must answer for the consequences.” "I know what I am about," said he hastily, and much agitated. None pressed on them or provoked them till they began loading, when a party about twelve in number, with sticks in their hands, moved from the middle of the street, where they had been standing, gave three cheers, and passed along the front of the soldiers, whose muskets some of them struck as they went by. "You are cowardly rascals,' said they, "for bringing arms against naked men. Lay aside your guns, and we are ready for you.”

7. "Are the soldiers loaded?" inquired Palmes of Preston. "Yes," he answered, "with powder and ball." "Are they going to fire upon the inhabitants?" asked Theodore Bliss. "They cannot, without my orders," replied Preston; while the "townborn" called out, "Come on, you rascals, you bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels! fire, if you dare! We know you dare not."

8. Just then Montgomery received a blow from a stick thrown, which hit his musket; and the word "Fire!" being given, he stepped a little on one side, and shot Attucks, who at the time was quietly leaning on a long stick. The people immediately began to move off. "Don't fire," said Langford, the watchman, to Kilroi, looking him full in the face; but yet he did so, and Samuel Gray, who was standing next Langford, with his hands in his bosom, fell lifeless.

9. The rest fired slowly and in succession on the people, who were dispersing. One aimed deliberately at a boy who was running for safety. Montgomery then pushed at Palmes to stab him; on which the latter knocked his gun out of his hand and, leveling a blow at him, hit Preston. Three persons were killed, among them Attucks the mulatto; eight were wounded, two of them, mortally. Of all the eleven, not more than one had had any share in the disturbance.

10. So infuriated were the soldiers that, when the men returned to take up the dead, they prepared to fire again, but were checked by Preston; while the Twenty-ninth regiment appeared under arms in King Street, as if bent on a further massacre. "This is our time," cried soldiers of the Fourteenth; and dogs were never seen more greedy for their prey.

11. The bells rung in all the churches; the town

drums beat. "To arms, to arms!" was the cry. And now was to be tested the true character of Boston. All its sons came forth, excited almost to madness: many were absolutely distracted by the sight of the dead bodies and of the blood, which ran plentifully in the street and was imprinted in all directions by the foot-tracks on the snow. "Our hearts," says Warren, "beat to arms, almost resolved by one stroke to avenge the death of our slaughtered brethren." But they stood self-possessed and irresistible, demanding justice according to the law.

1. Interference, molested, brandishing, persuaded, worsted, haughtily, dispersing, deliberately, distracted, slaughtered, irresistible.

2. What are 66 barracks"? Why did the boy call a soldier a lobster? What is meant by "primed his musket"? "had been worsted"? "with bayonets fixed"? "the drums beat 'to arms'"?

LV. GRADGRIND'S IDEA OF EDUCATION.

PART I.

1. "Now what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will

ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir. In this life we want nothing but Facts, sir! nothing but Facts."

2. The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present all backed a little and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.

3. Thomas Gradgrind, sir! A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir! with a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.

4. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to get some other nonsensical belief into the head of George Gradgrind, or Augustus Gradgrind, or John Gradgrind, or Joseph Gradgrind, but into the head of Thomas Gradgrind, no, sir! Indeed, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts.

5. "Girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind,

squarely pointing with his square forefinger. "I don't know that girl. Who is that girl?"

6. "Sissy Jupe, sir," explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and courtesying.

7. "Sissy is not a name," said Mr. Gradgrind. "Don't call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia."

8. "Father calls me Sissy, sir," returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another courtesy.

9. "Then he has no business to do it," said Mr. Gradgrind. "Tell him he mustn't. Cecilia Jupe. Let me see. What is your father?"

10. "He belongs to the horse-riding, if you please, sir." Mr. Gradgrind frowned, and waved off the objectionable calling with his hand.

11. "We don't want to know anything about that, here. You mustn't tell us about that, here. Your father breaks horses, don't he?"

12. "If you please, sir, when they can get any to break, they do break horses in the ring, sir.”

13. "You mustn't tell us about the ring, here. Very well, then. Describe your father as a horsebreaker. He doctors horses, I dare say?" 14. "Oh yes, sir."

15. "Very well, then; he is a veterinary surgeon, a farrier and horse-breaker. Give me your definition of a horse." Sissy Jupe was thrown into the greatest alarm by this demand.