His fevered brain grows calm again, 4. From the neighboring school Come the boys, with more than their wonted noise And down the wet streets sail their mimic fleets, Engulfs them in its whirling and turbulent ocean. 5. In the country, on every side, where, far and wide, To the dry grass and drier grain 6. In the furrowed land, From the wet and smoking soil, 7. Near at hand, from under the sheltering trees, His pastures and his fields of grain, As they bend their tops to the numberless beating drops LONGFELLOW. LESSON XIX. AN'GEL, (literally, a messenger), a spir- | HOST, an army, a great multitude. itual being, an inhabitant of heaven. THE HIGHTS, the highest heavens. PRONUNCIATION.-Heav'en 4d, hosts 29, anʼgel 34, and 29, a-bove' lf. PRAISE THE LORD. 1. PRAISE ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the hights. 2. Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. 3. Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise ye him, all ye stars of light. 4. Praise him, ye heaven of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. 5. Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created. 6. He hath also established them forever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass. LESSON XX. BOOм, sound loud and deep. BUOY, (bwoy) a floating mark, generally water. COAST, the border of the sea. QUICK'SAND, loose sand, in which heavy WAN'TON, without provocation or ex cuse. PRONUNCIATION.-En-su'ing 16, approach'es 1b and f, science 1b, ves'sel 4d, warn 9, winds and (not wins an) 29, helm 32a, wan'ton 2d. THE WARNING-BELL. 1. THE sailor is exposed to many perils while on the broad, deep sea; the tempest and the waves are his perpetual foes. 2. He must watch the skies, and take note of the winds, so that the gale may never find him unprepared. 3. But even if he escape all the many dangers of the open ocean, his safety is not yet secure. 4. He approaches the land, but new forms of peril await him. The rock-bound coast, the treacherous quicksand, the merciless breakers, the sunken reef, are all before him. 5. Human skill and science have invented many contrivances to lessen his dangers. Light-houses of great hight are built along the coast, and every night the brilliant lamps shine out over the waste waters to warn the mariner from the sands or the rocks, and to show him his path to the desired haven. 6. "And, as the evening darkens, lo! how bright, With strange, unearthly splendor in its glare." 7. Light-houses are mostly built on the solid land, but under the sea may lurk sunken rocks, of which the treacherous surface may give no warning, and on which the unwary sailor may be driven to his destruction. 8. To build light-houses in such places is always difficult and costly-often impossible; and even if built, a fog in the daytime may hide them from the view of the mariner, till it is too late to escape the danger. of 9. In these cases another contrivance is used. A vessel or boat proper size is anchored by strong cables and great weights over the hidden rocks. Upon this buoy a bell is so hung that the motion of the winds and waves causes it to toll and toll, and keep tolling, with never-ceasing voice of solemn warning. 10. When the mariner, buried in fog, unable to trace his way by the sun or stars, hears this solemn voice boom upon his listening ear, he knows that danger is nigh. Quick to the helm he flies, and turns his ship from the unseen peril. 11. Hardened and wicked must he be if his heart does not throb with gratitude for the humanity which anchored on the rocks the warning-bell. 12. In the tale of the Inchcape Rock, by the poet Southey, is told how a wild and lawless pirate, in a spirit of wanton mischief, removed the bell that had been placed on a sunken reef. 13. This wanton act was subsequently the cause of his own destruction. LESSON XXI. AB'BOT, the chief of an abbey or monas- | INCH'CAPE ROCK, a rock in the sea about tery. twelve miles from Aberbrothwick. JoY'ANCE, gayety. AB-ER-BRO-THOCK', now Aberbroth wick, or Abroath, a town of Scotland, at the mouth of the Brothwick, on the shore of the North Sea. The Abbey of Aberbrothock was founded about 1178, and is now a ruin. ME-THINKS', it seems to me. ScoUR, to pass swiftly over. PRONUNCIATION.-Ab'bot 1g, warn'ing 12, a-round' If, cheering 22, whis'tle 21, ex-cess' 1, steers 9, ev'er-y 3b, buoy (bwoy), be neath' 15. THE INCHCAPE ROCK. 1. No stir in the air, no swell on the sea,- The sails from heaven received no motion; 2. Without either sign or sound of their shock, 3. The pious abbot of Aberbrothock Had placed the bell on the Inchcape Rock; 4. When the rock was hid by the surges' swell And then they knew the perilous rock, 5. The sun in heaven was shining gay; The sea-birds screamed as they wheeled around, 6. The float of the Inchcape bell was seen 8. His eye was on the Inchcape float; 10. Down sunk the bell with a gurgling sound; Quoth he, "Who next comes to the rock 11. Sir Ralph the Rover sailed away; 12. So thick a haze o'erspread the sky 13. On deck the Rover takes his stand; Quoth Ralph, "It will be lighter soon, 14. "Can you hear," said one," the breakers roar? But I wish I could hear the Inchcape bell." 15 They hear no sound; the swell is strong; 16. Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair; SOUTHEY. LESSON XXII. BE-STOWED, placed for safe-keping. one meal. PRO-PEL', to urge forward, to drive on. swallow. PRONUNCIATION.- Cap'tain 32c, to'ward 266, dark'ness le, cool'ly 32c. INCIDENTS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF LOUISIANA. 1. The Alligator. 1. A FRENCH captain, on an expedition through the woods, had occasion to encamp on the bank of the Mississippi. Before night, he had made preparation for his breakfast next morning by catching an ample mess of fish. 2. This care off his mind, he wrapped his bear-skin round his body, rolled himself up, bear-skin and all, in a loose corner of the tent-cloth, and went quietly to sleep with his fish carefully bestowed at his side. 3. In the middle of the night his slumbers were suddenly disturbed. He found himself rapidly moving through the darkness toward the river. The power that propelled him was invisible. But whatever it might be, resistance was at first useless. tinued to approach the edge of the water. He con 4. The captain roared for help with all his might. No help came, but he managed, by great effort, to free himself and his bear-skin just in season to see his tent-cloth and his fish go under water in the jaws of an immense alligator. 5. The huge monster, prowling about in the night, had caught scent of the fish. His huge jaws, fiercely closing on the favorite dainty, had seized the tent-cloth in their voracious grasp; and as the creature retreated, the commander, tent, bed, and bear-skin, were all dragged toward the river. II.-Fingers before Forks. 1. On occasion of a visit made by an Indian chief-emperor he was called by the French-to one of the forts in Louisiana, a grand feast was prepared to do honor to the occasion. 2. When the hungry guests took their seats at the tables loaded with fish and game the young emperor-a youth of eighteen was much perplexed at the appearance of the knife and fork, which he had never before seen and did not know how to use. 3. But a wise old chief, who accompanied him as a counselor and adviser, cut the knot by coolly tearing a turkey to pieces with his fingers, gravely remarking:-"The Master of life made fingers before the making of forks." W. H. MILBurn. |