Let the million-dollared ride:

Barefoot, trudging at his side,
Thou hast more than he can buy
In the reach of ear and eye-
Outward sunshine, inward joy.
Blessings on thee, barefoot boy!

Oh for boyhood's painless play,
Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
Health that mocks the doctor's rules,
Knowledge never learned of schools,-
Of the wild bee's morning chase;

Of the wild-flower's time and place;
Flight of fowl, and habitude

Of the tenants of the wood;

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ANALYSIS.-13. What figure in the line? Parse million-dollar ed. 14. Give the grammatical construction of Barefoot. trudging, sta. What does the phrase modify?

15. Supply the ellipsis after than

15-17. Name the modifiers of hast

19 What relation does for express?

20. Give the case of Sleep. laughing day. What figure?

22-39. Name each of the modifiers of Knowledge.

21. Point out the figure in the line.

24 Explain the line.

25. Why habitude instead of habitation?

33. Give the meaning of blow as used here.

37. Give the grammatical construction of Mason.

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And the architectural plans

Of gray hornet-artisans !
For, eschewing books and tasks,
Nature answers all he asks.
Hand in hand with her he walks,
Face to face with her he talks,
Part and parcel of her joy:
Blessings on the barefoot boy!

Oh for boyhood's time of June,
Crowding years in one brief moon
When all things I heard or saw,
Me, their master, waited for!
I was rich in flowers and trees,
Humming-birds and honey-bees;
For my sport the squirrel played,
Plied the snouted mole his spade;
For my taste the blackberry-cone
Purpled over hedge and stone;
Laughed the brook for my delight
Through the day and through the night,
Whispering at the garden-wall,
Talked with me from fall to fall;

ANALYSIS-38, 39. What figure?

40. enenewing, etc. What does the phrase modify?

41. Point out the figure in the line.

42. Hand in hand. Parse.

43. Face to face. Parse.

44. Dispose of Part and parcel.

46. Give the grammatical construction of for.

47. Crowding, etc. What does this limit? Point out the figure in

the line.

49. Give the case of master.

50, 51. Analyze the clause.

53. Write the line in prose order.

55. Point out the figure in the line.

56. Laughed the brook. What figure?

58. What figure in the line? What does the line modify?

59. What is the meaning of fall here'

Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel pond;
Mine the walnut slopes beyond;

Mine, on bending orchard trees,
Apples of Hesperides!

Still, as my horizon grew,
Larger grew my riches too:
All the world I saw or knew
Seemed a complex Chinese toy,
Fashioned for a barefoot boy.

Oh for festal dainties spread,
Like my bowl of milk and bread
(Pewter spoon and bowl of wood)
On the doorstone gray and rude!
O'er me, like a regal tent,
Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent,
Purple-curtained, fringed with gold,
Looped in many a wind-swung fold;
While for music came the play
Of the pied frogs' orchestra,
And to light the noisy choir
Lit the fly his lamp of fire.

I was monarch: pomp and joy

Waited on the barefoot boy.

ANALYSIS.-60. Point out the alliteration. Parse pickerel pond.

61. Dispose of Mine.

64. Dispose of Still. Explain the line.

65. Explain the force of too.

66. Supply the ellipsis.

67. Parse the word toy.

70. Parse Like and bowl.

72. On the doorstone, etc. What does the phrase modify?

73. Dispose of like and tent.

73-76. What figure? Name the modifiers of tent.

77. Give the grammatical construction of While and for.

.78. What is the meaning of pied?

79. to light, etc. What does the phrase modify?

80. What figure in the line?

81, 82. Is this sentence complex or compound?

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Live and laugh, as boyhood can.
Though the flinty slopes be hard,
Stubble-speared the new-mown sward,
Every morn shall lead thee through
Fresh baptisms of the dew;
Every evening, from thy feet

Shall the cool wind kiss the heat:

All too soon these feet must hide
In the prison-cells of pride;
Lose the freedom of the sod;
Like a colt's, for work be shod;
Made to tread the mills of toil,
Up and down in ceaseless moil,
Happy if their track be found
Never on forbidden ground;
Happy if they sink not in

Quick and treacherous sands of sin.

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Ah that thou couldst know thy joy

Ere it passes, barefoot boy!

ANALYSIS.-83. What part of speech is then? Give the case of

man.

84. Parse as. Complete the verb.

85. What figure in the line?

86. Supply the verb.

87. Point out the figures.

85-88. Analyze the sentence.

89 90. Point out the figure.
91 What part of speech is All?

92 Point out the figure in the line.

93 Lose. Give the mode and the tense.

94 be shod. In what mode and tense? Parse like.

95. Parse Made.

96. Dispose of Up and down. What is the meaning of mou

97. What is the antecedent of their?

99. Name the antecedent of they.

100. Point out an example of poetic license.

101. that thou, etc. What kind of clause? What is the subject?

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7. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,

1809-1894.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, a witty and brilliant writer of both prose and poetry, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the 29th of August, 1809. He was educated partly at Phillips Academy, Exeter, and then graduated at Harvard in 1829. After leaving Harvard he spent a year in the study of law, when he abandoned that profession and chose the profession of medicine instead. During the year 1830, while studying law, he contributed a number of witty poems to The Collegian, a periodical published by the undergraduates of Harvard University.

In 1833, Holmes visited Europe, residing chiefly in Paris, where he pursued his medical studies. On his return to America, in 1836, he took his medical degree at Harvard University, and two years later became Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Dartmouth College. He held this position until the time of his marriage, in 1840, when he removed to Boston, and there won much success as a practicing physician. In 1847 he was made Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Harvard, a post which he has filled with honor ever since.

Dr. Holmes has won distinction not only as a professional man, but also as a writer on subjects related to his profession. He is, however, best known to the public by his purely literary productions. His lyrics, such as Old Ironsides, Union and Liberty, Welcome to the Nations