notes of gladness as went up those unfathomable barriers, and were reiterated and prolonged by the multitude above, were alone akin to those which angels make, when a straying soul comes home to God!

QUESTIONS.-1. Where is the scene laid in this piece? 2. What was the first inducement to the boy to make the dangerous ascent ! 3. What direction did his father give him when he saw his situation? 4. How did he finally escape destruction? 5. Is not inordinate ambition apt to lead people into dangerous enterprises?

LESSON LXIII.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

SUO CEED', follow in order.
STANCH, Sound; firm; strong.
SOLVE, explain; unfold.

WIST FUL, attentive; earnest.
HOARD' ED, treasured up.
IM' PLE MENT, tool; utensil.
MATERIAL, consisting of matter. PROBLEM, question to be solved.
RE BOUND' ING, springing back. Į GIM CRACK, trivial contrivance.
TROMBONE, deep-toned trumpet. RE VOLVE', turn, or roll round.
CON SPIRE', join together; unite. So NO ROUs, loud sounding.

THE YANKEE BOY.

JOHN PIERPONT.

1. The Yankee boy, before he's sent to school,
Well knows the mysteries of that magic tool,
The pocket-knife. To that his wistful eye
Turns, while he hears his mother's lullaby;
His hoarded cents he gladly gives to get it,
Then leaves no stone unturned till he can whet it;
And, in the education of the lad,

No little part that implement hath had.

2 His pocket-knife to the young whittler brings
A growing knowledge of material things.
Projectiles, music, and the sculptor's art,
His chestnut whistle, and his shingle dart,
His elder pop-gun, with his hickory rod,
Its sharp explosion and rebounding wad,

3.

His corn-stalk fiddle, and the deeper tone
That murmurs from his pumpkin leaf trombone,
Conspire to teach the boy.

To these succeed
His bow, his arrow of a feathered reed,
His wind-mill, raised the passing breeze to win,
His water-wheel, that turns upon a pin;
Or, if his father lives upon the shore,
You'll see his ship, beam ends upon the floor,
Full rigged, with raking masts and timbers stanch,
And waiting, near the wash-tub, for a launch.

4. Thus, by his genius and his jack-knife driven,
Ere long he'll solve you any problem given;
Make any gim-crack, musical or mute,
A plow, a coach, an organ, or a flute;
Make you a locomotive, or a clock,
Cut a canal, or build a floating dock,
Or lead forth beauty from a marble block;
Make anything, in short, for sea or shore,
From a child's rattle to a seventy-four.

Make it, said I? Ay, when he undertakes it,

He'll make the thing, and the machine that makes it.

5. And, when the thing is made, whether it be
To move on earth, in air, or on the sea,
Whether on water, o'er the waves to glide,
Or upon land, to roll, revolve, or slide;
Whether to whirl or jar, to strike or ring,
Whether it be a piston or a spring,
Wheel, pulley, tube sonorous, wood or brass,
The thing designed shall surely come to pass;
For, when his hand's upon it, you may know
That there's go in it, and he'll make it go.

QUESTIONS.-1. What is the "magic tool," alluded to in this piece? 2. How does the Yankee boy use it? 3. In what way does this early use of the pocket-knife seem to inform his mind? 4. Does the Yankee usually succeed in his contrivances when he becomes a man? 5. Might not his example teach perseverance and industry? Why the rising inflection on it, 4th stanza? What Rule?

LESSON LXIV.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

VER' DANT, green.

PENSIVE, musing; thoughtful,

CASTLED, furnished with castles. ROY' AL, kingly; princely.

AN' OIENT, old; antique.

FORGED, formed; made.

MY COUNTRY.

GEO. W. BETHUNE.

1. My country, oh! my country,
My heart still sighs for thee,
And many are the longing thoughts
I send across the sea.

My weary feet have wandered far,
And far they yet must roam;
But, oh! whatever land I tread,
My heart is with my home.

2. The fields of merry England

Are spreading round me wide,
The verdant vales and castled steep,
In all their ancient pride;
But give me to my own wild land,
Beyond the soft sea's foam,
For there, amid her forests free,
My spirit is at home.

3. I've listened, at the sunset hour,
To the songs of merry France,
And smiled to see her peasants glad
In the evening's cheerful dance;
But sadness chased away the smile,
As I thought, far o'er the sea,
Of the pensive group around the hearth,
Whose hearts were sad for me.

4. There's no home like my own home,
Across the dark blue sea;

The land of beauty and of worth,
The bright land of the free;

Where royal foot hath never trod,
Nor bigot forged a chain;
Oh! would that I were safely back
In that bright land again!

QUESTIONS.-1. What difference does the writer find in the scenes at home and those abroad? 2. What feeling or spirit is prominent in this piece?

LESSON LXV.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

ATTACHMENT, fidelity; affection.
RE TEN TIVE, having power to
retain.

DIS CLOSURES, discoveries.
AP PRE HEND' ED, seized.
AN EC DOTE, story; incident.
EN TER TAINED, held; cherished.
TREACHER OUS LY, faithlessly.
IN TER FERENCE, intermeddling.
AP PEAS ED, allayed; satisfied.
CEM' E TER IES, burial-places.
IN TEN SI TY, extreme degree.

IN TER RO GA TED, questioned.
CON VIC' TION, strong belief.
PLAINT IFFS, the parties that

make complaint; accusers.
DE FEND' Ants, parties that op-

pose a complaint or charge. WEAP ON, instrument of defense or attack.

COM BAT ANTS, opponents in
battle.

DIS EN TANGLE, disengage.
A vow' ED, owned; confessed.

1. PLUTARCH, a celebrated Greek writer, famous for his history of the Lives of Great Men of Antiquity, was born in Chæronea, in Boeotia, about fifty years after the birth of Christ.

2. PYRRHUS, king of Epirus, the ablest general of his time, was born about the year B. C. 318, and died B. C. 272.

ATTACHMENT OF DOGS TO THEIR MASTERS.

CHAMBERS' MIS.

1. The attachment of the dog to his master, becomes a ruling passion, and, united with a retentive memory, has led to some remarkable disclosures of crime. We are told by 'Plutarch of a certain Roman slave, in the civil wars, whose head nobody durst cut off, for fear of the dog that guarded his body, and fought in his defense.

2. It happened that king 'Pyrrhus, traveling that way, observing the animal watching over the body of the deceased, and, hearing that he had been there three days without meat or drink, yet would not forsake his master,

ordered the body to be buried, and the dog preserved and brought to him.

3. A few days afterward, there was a muster of the soldiers, so that every man was forced to march in order before the king. The dog lay quietly by him for some time; but, when he saw the murderers of his late owner pass by, he flew upon them with extraordinary fury, barking, and tearing their garments, and frequently turning about to the king; which both excited the king's suspicion and the wonder of all who stood about him. The men were, in consequence, apprehended, and, though the circumstances which appeared in evidence against them were very slight, they confessed the crime, and were accordingly punished.

4. An old writer mentions a similar case of attachment and revenge which occurred in France, in the reign of Charles V. The anecdote has been frequently related, and is as follows: A gentleman named Macaire, an officer in the king's body guard, entertained, for some reason, a bitter hatred against another gentleman, named Aubrey de Montdidier, his comrade in service. These two having met in the forest of Bondis, near Paris, Macaire took an opportunity of treacherously murdering his brother officer, and buried him in a ditch.

5. Montdidier was unaccompanied at the moment, excepting by a greyhound, with which he had probably gone out to hunt. It is not known whether the dog was muzzled, or from what other cause it permitted the deed to be accomplished without its interference. Be this as it may, the hound lay down on the grave of its master, and there remained till hunger compelled it to rise.

6. It then went to the kitchen of one of Aubry de Montdidier's dearest friends, where it was welcomed warmly, and fed. As soon as its hunger was appeased, the dog disappeared. For several days this coming and going was repeated, till, at last, the curiosity of those who saw its movements was excited, and it was resolved to follow the