one person in the parish had reached the bottom of the Glead's Cliff.

8. Many were now attempting it; and ere the cautious mother had followed her dumb guides a hundred yards, though among dangers that, although enough to terrify the stoutest heart, were traversed by her without a shudder, the head of one man appeared, and then the head of another; and she knew that God had delivered her and her child, in safety, into the care of their fellow

creatures.

9. Not a word was spoken-eyes said enough; she hushed her friends with her hands, and, with uplifted eyes, pointed to the guides lent to her by Heaven. Small, green plats, where those creatures nibble the wild flowers, became now more frequent; trodden lines, almost as easy as sheep-paths, showed that the dam had not led her young into danger; and now the brush-wood dwindled away into straggling shrubs, and the party stood on a little eminence above the stream, and forming part of the strath.

10. There had been trouble and agitation, much sobbing, and many tears, among the multitude, while the mother was scaling the cliffs; sublime was the shout that echoed afar the moment she reached the eyrie; then had succeeded a silence deep as death; in a little while arose that hymning prayer, succeeded by mute supplication; the wildness of thankful and congratulatory joy had next its sway; and, now that her salvation was sure, the great crowd rustled like a wind-swept wood.

11. And for whose sake was all this alternation of agony? A poor, humble creature, unknown to many, even by name; one who had but few friends, nor wished for more; contented to work all day, here, there, any

where, that she might be able to support her aged mother and her little child; and who, on Sabbath, took her seat in an obscure pew, set apart for paupers, in the kirk!

12. "Fall back, and give her fresh air!" said the old minister of the parish; and the circle of close faces widened around her, lying as in death. "Give me the bonnie bit bairn into my arms!" cried first one mother, and then another; and it was tenderly handed around the circle of kisses, many of the snooded maidens bathing its face in tears. "There's na a scratch about the puir innocent, for the eagle, you see, maun hae stuck its talons into the lang claes and the shawl. Blin', blin' maun they be, who see not the finger o' God in this thing!"

13. Hannah started up from her swoon, and, looking wildly around, cried, "Oh! the bird! the bird! the eagle! The eagle has carried off my bonnie wee Walter! Is there nane to pursue?" A neighbor put her baby to her breast, and, shutting her eyes and smiting her forehead, the sorely bewildered creature said, in a low voice: "Am I wauken? Oh, tell me if I am wauken! or if a' this be the wark o' a fever, and the delirium o' a dream!"

John Wilson.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Kirk (church), strath (river valley), na (for not), lang claes (long clothes), blin' (blind), maun (must), nane (none), wauken (waking), wark (work), screes (cliffs). Note these and other Scotch words. II. Heights (hits), psälms (sämz), hymn'-ing (him'-).

III. Meaning of “a”” (ll omitted) and “o” (f) (13).

IV. Define, in your own words, reefed, top-gallant, bed-ridden, sympathy, inanimate, heather, ledge, callous, petrified, trellis, tremulous, scaling, accessible, plats, eminence, congratulatory, alternation, paupers, swoon, traversed.

V. Write the substance of this story from memory, after taking notes of the contents of each verse, and then compare, verse by verse, your style with that of the original.

LIV. THE HOT SEASON.

1. The folks that on the first of May
Wore winter-coats and hose,
Began to say, the first of June,
"Good Lord! how hot it grows!"
At last two Fahrenheits blew up,
And killed two children small,
And one barometer shot dead
A tutor with its ball!

2. Now all day long the locusts sang
Among the leafless trees;

Three new hotels warped inside out;
The pumps could only wheeze;
And ripe old wine, that twenty years
Had cobwebbed o'er in vain,
Came spouting through the rotten corks,
Like Joly's best champagne!

3. The Worcester locomotives did
Their trip in half an hour;
The Lowell cars ran forty miles
Before they checked the power;
Roll brimstone soon became a drug,
And locofocos fell;

All asked for ice, but everywhere
Saltpetre was to sell.

4. Plump men of mornings ordered tights, But, ere the scorching noons,

Their candle-moulds had grown as loose
As Cossack pantaloons!

The dogs ran mad-men could not try

If water they would choose;

A horse fell dead-he only left
Four red-hot, rusty shoes!

5. But soon the people could not bear
The slightest hint of fire;
Allusions to caloric drew

A flood of savage ire;

The leaves on "Heat" were all torn out
From every book at school;

And many blackguards kicked and caned,
Because they said, "Keep cool! ”

6. The gas-light companies were mobbed,
The bakers all were shot;

The penny-press began to talk
Of lynching Doctor Nott;
And all about the warehouse-steps
Were angry men in droves,
Crashing and splintering through the doors
To smash the patent stoves!

7. The abolition men and maids

Were tanned to such a hue,

You scarce could tell them from their friends,

Unless their eyes were blue;

And when I left, society

Had burst its ancient guards,

And Brattle Street and Temple Place

Were interchanging cards!

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Fäh'-ren-heits (thermometers, so named from their inventor). How does a thermometer differ from a barometer? What is each used for indicating? "Worcester locomotives did their trip" (of 44 miles to Boston; Boston to Lowell, 26 miles).

II. Eŏb'-wěbbed, cham-pagne' (sham-pan'), lō-eo-mō'-tive, păn-taloon', al-lu'-şions (-zhunz), pa'-tent, ǎb-o-li'-tion (-lish'un), in-ter-chang'ing, guärdş (gärdz), eã-lŏr'-ie.

III. Explain the use of capital letters wherever they occur in this poem. IV. Tutor, saltpetre, Cossack, patent, lynching, mobbed, abolition, “became a drug" (in the market-no sale for it).

V. Note the order of the ludicrous conceits of this poem: Expansion of quicksilver in thermometer and barometer by heat, so rapid as to cause explosion! Trees leafless from heat. Not boards only, but new buildings, warping "inside out!" Ripe wine-called "ripe" because it has no fermentation-effervesces like champagne (or soda-water)! So hot that the force of the steam was increased to an ungovernable degree in the locomotives. Brimstone, saltpetre, locofocos (matches), and fire-producing materials, in no demand, and for sale cheap. Plump men grew thin from perspiration. Dogs run mad for heat. No water to drink. Horse all consumed by heat, except his iron shoes! Scientific treatises on heat (" caloric ") destroyed by people to whom it suggested the cause of their misery; even an exhortation to keep cool was resented for the suggestion it contained! Gas-makers, bakers, all who used fire or manufactured combustibles-even Dr. Eliphalet Nott, who invented "patent stoves" and heating apparatus-were in danger from the excited mob! Finally, all people tanned to a dark hue, and all social distinctions vanished!

LV. HOW TO RENDER SCORNFUL AND SARCASTIC IDEAS.

This head includes irony, mockery, scoffing, caustic wit and raillery, indirect accusation, insinuation of evil, etc.

"COMPOUND STRESS."-Abrupt stress is sometimes given to the first part of the emphatic vowel (as in command, anger, and energetic statement), and is called “radical” or initial stress. It is sometimes given to the last part of the emphatic vowel (as in impatience, distress, painful anxiety, revenge, defiance, etc.), and is called "vanishing" or final stress.

But sometimes, as in the following class of ideas, these two kinds of abrupt stress come together on the