LESSON XXXIV. WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING. NEST' LING, young bird. PROS TRATE, downcast. WA' VER ED, moved to and fro. stone STAT UE, image; likeness. 1. HEL VE TIA was bounded on the west by Mount Jura, on the south by the Pennine Alps, on the east by the Rætian Alps, and on the north by the Rhine. It comprehended, therefore, a great part of what is now called Switzerland. VERNER-ALBERT-TELL. Verner. Ah! Albert! KNOWLES. What have you there? Albert. My bow and arrows, Verner. Ver. When will you use them, like your father, boy? Alb. Sometime, I hope. Ver. You brag! There's not an archer In all 'Helvetia can compare with him. Alb. But I'm his son; and, when I am a man, I may be like him. Verner, do I brag, To think I sometime may be like my father? If so, then is it he that teaches me; For, ever as I wonder at his skill, He calls me boy, and says I must do more, Ver. May you be such A man as he-if heaven wills, better-I'll Not quarrel with its work; yet 'twill content me, If you are only such a man. Alb. I'll show you How I can shoot. (Goes out to fix the mark.) Ver. Nestling as he is, he is the making of a bird Will own no cowering wing. Alb. Now, Verner, look! (Shoots.) An inch! Ver. Oh, fy! it wants a hand. Alb. A hand's (Re-enter Albert.) There's within (Exit Verner.) An inch for me. I'll hit it yet. Now for it! (While Albert continues to shoot, Tell enters and watches him in silence.) Tell. That's scarce a miss that comes so near the mark! Well aimed, young archer! With what ease he bends The bow! To see those sinews, who'd believe Such strength did lodge in them? That little arm, His mother's palm can span, may help, anon, To pull a sinewy tyrant from his seat, And from their chains a prostrate people lift To liberty. I'd be content to die, Living to see that day! What, Albert! Alb. Ah! My father! Tell. You raise the bow Too fast. (Albert continues shooting.) every limb Tell. You're not steady. I perceived Right to the tyrant's heart! (Hits the mark.) Well done, my boy! Come here! How early were you up? Alb. Before the sun. Tell. Ay, strive with him. He never lies abed When it is time to rise. Be like the sun. can make me. Alb. What you would have me like, I'll be like, As far as will to labor joined, Tell. Well said, my boy! Knelt you when you got up To-day? Alb. I did; and do so every day. Alb. To Him who made me, father. Alb. The name of Him who died you when For me and all men, that all men and I you kneel, Tell. That's right. Remember that, my son; To live, when these are gone, where they are naught― QUESTIONS.-1. Why does Albert think he can compare himself with his father? 2. Should not a child always seek to imitate the example of a worthy parent? 3. How does Tell instruct his son in regard to shooting? 4. What does Tell direct Albert to be like? 5. What pious custom had Albert every morning, when he got up? 6. To whom did he pray? 7. In whose name? 8. In what terme does his father commend his practice? 9. Is this poetry rhyme or blank verse? LESSON XXXV. WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING. PROD' I GAL, wasteful; lavish. SCRIBES, writers; copyists. FAIN, gladly; with pleasure. FAM INE, Scarcity of food; dearth. COM PASSION, pity. EN TREAT ED, besought; urged. PAR A BLE, fable for moral in- THE PRODIGAL SON. BIBLE. 1. Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them 2. And he spake this parable unto them, saying: What man of you having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And, when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 3. And, when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them: Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which nced no repentance. 4. Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And, when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying: Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you: There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. 5. And he said: A certain man had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And, when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land, and he began to be in want. 6. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat; and no man gave unto him. 7. And, when he came to himself, he said: How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him: Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son make me as one of thy hired servants. But, when he 8. And he arose and came to his father. was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him: Father, I have sinned against Heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. 9 But the father said to his servants: Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry; for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry. 10. Now his elder son was in the field; and, as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him: Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. 11. And he was angry, and would not go in; therefore, came his father out and entreated him. And he answering, said to his father: Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I, at any time, thy commandment; and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends; but, as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. 12. And he said unto him: Son, thou art ever with me; and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry and be glad; for this thy brother was dead and is alive again; and was lost and is found. QUESTIONS.-1. What did the prodigal demand of his father? 2 Where did he go, and how did he spend his substance? 3. What did he say when he found himself reduced to beggary, and obliged to feed swine? 4. When he returned, how did his father receive him? 5. How did the elder brother behave? 6. What moral does this parable teach? |