6. Slight ye not the soul Holds a mighty spirit: By thy ruby's glances; 7. What is good and great, Sense can soon determine; Fools may be her captors; 8. Value not the lips Swiftest kept in motion; Draw no depth of ocean: 9. Cull from bad and good Every seeming flower, Store it up as food For some hungry hour: Press its every leaf, And remember, Johnny, May have drops of honey. 10. Pomp and power alone Never make a blessing; By one wretch distressing. For the blood-earned penny, Than be rich, and have A curse on every guinea. 11. Think, my gentle boys, Sees but vice below it. 12. Robert, thoughts like these, Store you more than money; For being truly simple. QUESTIONS.-1. What did the writer tell Robert and John to do with the book, given them? 2. What use did he tell them to make of Youth? LESSON XXVII. AV A RI" CIOUS, greedy after gain. AS SI DU I TY, untiring diligence. UN DER MINE', dig under. IM AG' IN ED, conceived. WHANG, THE MILLER. GOLDSMITH. 1. WHANG, the miller, was naturally avaricious; nobody loved money better than he, or more respected those that had it. When people would talk of a rich man in company, Whang would say, "I know him very well; he and I have been very long acquainted; he and I are intimate.” 2. But, if a poor man was mentioned, he had not the least knowledge of the man; he might be very well, for aught he knew; but he was not fond of making many acquaintances, and loved to choose his company. : 3. Whang, however, with all his eagerness for riches, was poor. He had nothing but the profits of his mill to support him; but, though these were small, they were certain while it stood and went, he was sure of eating; and his frugality was such, that he, every day, laid some money by; which he would, at intervals, count and contemplate with much satisfaction. 4. Yet still his acquisitions were not equal to his desires; he only found himself above want; whereas he desired to be possessed of affluence. One day, as he was indulging these wishes, he was informed that a neighbor of his had found a pan of money under ground, having dreamed of it three nights in succession. 5. These tidings were daggers to the heart of poor Whang. "Here am I," said he, "toiling and moiling from morning till night for a few paltry farthings, while neighbor Thanks only goes quietly to bed, and dreams himself into thousands before morning. Oh, that I could dream like him! With what pleasure would I dig round the pan! How slyly would I carry it home! Not even my wife should see me! And then, oh the pleasure of thrusting one's hands into a heap of gold up to the elbows!" 6. Such reflections only served to make the miller unhappy. He discontinued his former assiduity; he was quite disgusted with small gains; and his customers began to forsake him. Every day he repeated the wish, and every night laid himself down in order to dream. Fortune, that was for a long time unkind, at last, however, seemed to smile upon his distress, and indulged him with the wished-for vision. 7. He dreamed that under a certain part of the foundation of his mill, there was concealed a monstrous pan of gold and diamonds, buried deep in the ground, and covered with a large flat stone. He concealed his good luck from every person, as is usual in money-dreams, in order to have the vision repeated the two succeeding nights, by which he should be certain of its truth. His wishes in this, also, were answered; he still dreamed of the same pan of money, in the very same place. 8. Now, therefore, it was past a doubt; so, getting up early the third morning, he repaired, alone, with a mattock in his hand, to the mill, and began to undermine that part of the wall to which the vision directed. The first omen of success that he met with, was a broken ring; digging still deeper, he turned up a house-tile, quite new and entire. 9. At last, after much digging, he came to a broad flat stone; but then it was so large, that it was beyond his strength to remove it. "There," cried he in raptures to himself, "there it is! under this stone, there is room for a very large pan of diamonds indeed. I must e'en go home to my wife, and tell her the whole affair, and get her to assist me in turning it up." quaints his wife with fortune. Away, therefore, he Away, therefore, he goes, and ac every circumstance of their good 10. Her raptures, on this occasion, may easily be imagined; she flew round his neck, and embraced him in an agony of joy. But these transports, however, did not allay their eagerness to know the exact sum; returning, together, to the place where Whang had been digging, there they foundnot, indeed, the expected treasure-but the mill, their only support, undermined and fallen! QUESTIONS.-1. Upon what was Whang, the miller, dependent for support? 2. Why was he not satisfied? 3. What did he say to himself, after the information he had received from a neighbor? 4. What effect had such reflections upon him? 5. What did he dream three nights successively? 6. What did he do? 7. What was the result? ཨ LESSON XXVIII. PO LITE NESS, good manners. IN CU BATION, act of hatching eggs. AP PRE CI A' TION, estimate. Ex' IT, departure; going out. ARCH' I TECTS, (ch, like k,) builders. SE CRETE', to deposit; produce. SPHERE, (ph like f) circuit of action. |