"Well then, at once to end the doubt,"
Replies the man, "I'll turn him out;
And when before your eyes I've set him,
If you don't find him black, I'll eat him."
He said; then full before their sight
Produced the beast, and lo!-'twas white!
Both stared-the man looked wondrous wise-
"My children," the Chameleon cried,
(Then first the creature found a tongue,)
"You are all right, and all are wrong!
When next you speak of what you view,
Think others see, as well as you :
Nor wonder if you find that none
Prefer your eye-sight to their own."

Refer if possible to a work on Natural History, and enter in note book a description of the Chameleon, its habits, &c.

BIRDS IN SUMMER.

BY MARY HOWITT.

Author of numerous Poems, Novels, and Translations from modern

languages.

How pleasant the life of a bird must be,
Flitting about in each leafy tree ;—
In the leafy trees so broad and tall,
Like a green and beautiful palace hall,
With its airy chambers, light and boon,
That open to sun, and stars, and moon;
That open unto the bright blue sky,
And the frolicsome winds, as they wander by!
They have left their nests in the forest bough;
Those homes of delight they need not now;
And the young and old they wander out,
And traverse their green world round about;
And hark! at the top of this leafy hall,
How, one to the other, they lovingly call :-
"Come up, come up!" they seem to say,
"Where the topmost twigs in the breezes play!"

"Come up, come up, for the world is fair,

Where the merry leaves dance in the summer air!" And the birds below give back the cry,

"We come, we come to the branches high!'
How pleasant the life of the birds must be,
Living in love in a leafy tree;

And away through the air what joy to go,
And to look on the green, bright earth below!

How pleasant the life of a bird must be,
Skimming about on the breezy sea,
Cresting the billows like silvery foam,
And then wheeling away to its cliff-built home!
What joy it must be to sail, upborne

By a strong free wing, through the rosy morn,
To meet the young sun, face to face,
And pierce, like a shaft, the boundless space !

How pleasant the life of a bird must be,
Wherever it listeth there to flee :

То go, when a joyful fancy calls,

Dashing down 'mong the waterfalls;

Then wheeling about, with its mates at play,
Above and below, and among the spray,

Hither and thither, with screams as wild
As the laughing mirth of a rosy child!
What a joy it must be, like a living breeze,
To flutter among the flowering trees;
Lightly to soar, and to see beneath

The wastes of the blossoming purple heath,
And the yellow furze, like fields of gold,
That gladden some fairy region old.
On mountain tops, on the billowy sea,
On the leafy stems of the forest tree,
How pleasant the life of a bird must be !

Arithmetic-IV. Avoirdupois Weight. Subtraction.

(1) Tons. cwt. qrs. lbs. oz. drs. 9763 4 2 14 15 3 7936 19 3 27 2 7

(2.) Tons. cwt. qrs. lbs. oz. drs. 8295 3 1 19 4 13 7 2 4 15 5

6041

Exercises in Word Building-IV.

Form lists of English words, according to the models, from— 1. The Latin substantives AQUA, water; ARMA, arms weapons; and ARS, ARTIS, skill or art.

or

2. The Latin adjectives AMPLUS, large; and ASPER, rough. 3. The Latin verbs ARCEO, I drive away; ARDEO, 1 burn; and its participle ARSUS, burnt; and ARGUO, I dispute.

Exercise in Dictation-IV.

Kien Lung, Emperor of China, inquired of Sir George Staunton the manner in which we paid physicians; and when, after some difficulty, his majesty was made to understand the system, he exclaimed, "I suppose, then, that no man in England is in good health if he can afford to be ill. Now I will inform you how I manage my physicians: I have four, to whom the care of my health is entrusted, and to whom I allow a weekly salary, but the moment I am unwell that salary is stopped till I am well again. I need not inform you that my illnesses are of very short duration."

PROBLEM V.-To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line, as A B, from a given point without it, and opposite the end of the line, as C.

Take any point D in A B near the end of the line. Join C D and bisect it in E. From E with radius EC or ED, describe arc C F D, cutting A B in F. Join C F. This line is the perpendicular required.

PROBLEM VI.-Through a given point, as C, to draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line, as A B.

Take any point D in A B. With radius DC from D, describe arc CE, and with same radius from C, describe arc D F. From D with same radius draw an arc cutting D F in G. Join C G. This line is the parallel required. PROBLEM VII.-To draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line, as A B at a given distance from it, as X.

From the points C and D in A B, with a radius equal to X, describe the arcs E F, GH. Draw a straight line K L touching these arcs. is the parallel required.

This line PROBLEM VIII-t a given point, as A, in a given straight line as A B, to make an angle equal to a given angle, as C DE. Form C with any radius C F, describe the arc F G. From A with same radius describe the arc H K. Make H L equal to F G. From A draw through L the straight line ALM. The angle B A M is the angle required.

CAPTAIN COOK.

nav-i-ga-tors...sailors, those un-for-tu-nate........unlucky,

who manage ships

deplorable

hos-til-i-ty..

ex-pe'-ri-enced...suffered, en- im-pru'-dent

dured

...unwise ..enmity

ex-tra-or'-di-na-ry......out of de-fen'-sive.. ..affording pro

the common

tection

ca-pac'-it-y......understanding, hos'-tage.....a person given up

power of mind rap'-id-ly...

...quickly pro-mo'-ted......advanced in

rank

as security for the life of another on the performance of a promise op-po-si'-tion..... ..hinderance scuf'-fle..................... skirmish, men struggling one with another as-sist'-ance.......aid, help spent..... .worn out, fatigued fragments.. small pieces lam'-en-ta-ble ..deplorable sub sist'-ed...continued, lasted bar-ba'-ri-ans.. ..savages af-fray'.. ..fight, skirmish civ-il-ized. ..orderly, amenable to law

.....

James Cook, one of the greatest navigators ever produced by Great Britain or any other country, was the son of a farm-servant in Yorkshire, where he was born on the 27th of October, 1728. He was one of a family of nine children, and experienced great hardships in his early years. He was a common seaman at the age of thirty; but as soon as his character and extraordinary capacity came to be noticed, he was rapidly promoted.

In the beginning of the reign of George the Third, a great spirit of geographical discovery was excited by the attention paid to the subject by government; and Cook (who was then made a lieutenant) was sent on a voyage fo discovery in 1768. On the 30th of July that year, he