promise in the book. Twelve times have the trees dropped their leaves, and yet we have received no land. Our houses have been taken from us. The white man's plow turns up the bones of our fathers. We dare not kindle our fires, and yet you said we might remain, and you would give us land. 6. Brother, is this truth? But we believe, now our Great Father knows our condition, he will listen to us. We are as mourning orphans in our country; but our Father will take us by the hand. When he fulfills his promise, we will answer his talk. He means well. We know it. But we can not think now. Grief has made children of us. our business is settled, we shall be men again, and talk to our Great Father about what he has promised.

When

7. Brother, you stand in the moccasins of a great chief; you speak the words of a mighty nation, and your talk was long. My people are small; their shadow scarcely reaches to your knee; they are scattered and gone; when I shout, I hear my voice in the depths of the woods; but no answering shout comes back. My words, therefore, are few. I have nothing more to say.

QUESTIONS.-1. Who is meant by the "White Chief"? 2. What, by the "Great Spirit"? 3. What, by "two sleeps"? 4. What is said of the white man's plow? 5. How is grief said to have affected the Indians? 6. What idea is conveyed in the allusion to the shadow of the Choctaws?

LESSON CVII.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

FUL'SOME, disgusting; nauseous

A MENDMENT, reformation.
OATHS, profane swearing.

IM PRE CATIONS, curses.
PROT ES TATIONS, solemn decla-
rations.

SCOFF ING, mocking.

JEST' ING, joking; sporting.

DE FECTS', deformities.

IM PRESSION, effect on the mind
RE PROACH FÜL, reviling.
MEN' A CING, threatening.
PRUDENCE, wisdom.

EX AS' PER ATE, make very angry.
MOD ER ATION, forbearance.
SE REN I TY, calmness.

PRECEPTS.

SIR MATTHEW HALE.

1. If a man, whose integrity you do not very well know, makes you great and extraordinary professions, do not give much credit to him. Probably you will find that he aims at something beside kindness to you, and that, when he has served his turn, or been disappointed, his regard for you will grow cool.

2. Beware, also, of him who flatters you, and commends you to your face, or to one who, he thinks, will tell you of it; most probably he has either deceived and abused you, or means to do so. Remember the fable of the fox commending the singing of the crow, that had something in her mouth, which the fox wanted.

3. Be careful that you do not commend yourselves. It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking, if your own tongue must praise you; and it is fulsome and unpleasing to others to hear such commendations.

4. Speak well of the absent whenever you have a suitable opportunity. Never speak ill of them, or of any body, unless you are sure they deserve it, and unless it is necessary for their amendment, or for the safety and benefit of others.

5. Avoid, in your ordinary communications, not only oaths, but all imprecations and earnest protestations.

6. Forbear scoffing and jesting at the condition, or natural defects of any person. Such offenses leave a deep imprcssion, and they often cost a man dear.

7. Be very careful that you give no reproachful, menacing, or spiteful words to any person. Good words make friends; bad words make enemies. It is great prudence to gain as many friends as we honestly can, especially, when it may be done at so easy a rate as a good word; and it is great folly to make an enemy by ill words, which are of no advantage to the party who uses them.

8. When faults are committed, they may, and, by a superior, they must, be reproved; but let it done without reproach

or bitterness; otherwise, it will lose its due end and use, and, instead of reforming the offense, it will exasperate the offender, and lay the reprover justly open to reproof.

9. If a person be passionate, and give you ill language, rather pity him than be moved to anger. You will find that silence, or very gentle words, are the most exquisite revenge for reproaches; they will either cure the distemper in the angry man, and make him sorry for his passion, or they will be a severe reproof and punishment to him. But, at any rate, they will preserve your innocence, give you the deserved reputation of wisdom and moderation, and keep up the serenity and composure of your mind. Passion and anger make a man unfit for every thing that becomes him as a man or as a Christian.

10. Never utter any profane speeches, nor make a jest of any Scripture expressions. When you pronounce the name of God or of Christ, or repeat any passages or words of Holy Scripture, do it with reverence and seriousness, and not lightly; for that is "taking the name of God in vain."

QUESTIONS.-1. To whom should you not give much credit? 2. Why, beware of the flatterer? 3. Why, not commend yourself? 4. In what way should we speak of the absent ? 5. How should we behave toward those who are, in any wise, deformed? 6. What is said of the power of good words? 7. What must sometimes be reproved? 8. How must you treat a passionate person? 9. How should you treat passages of Scripture?

LESSON CVIII.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

OR DAINED, appointed.

CA REER', race; course.
LAVISH ED, wasted.

HAP LY, perhaps; perchance.
TRACE, delineate; draw.

RE TOUCH', improve by new
touches.

EF FACE', erase; blot out.
TWIN' ED, closely united.

UN CHANG' ING LY, unvaryingly.

MY BIRTH-DAY.

THOMAS MOORE,

1. "My birth-day!"-what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears!
And how, each time the day comes round,
Less and less white the mark appears!
When first our scanty years are told,
It seems like pastime to grow old;
And, as youth counts the shining links
That Time around him binds so fast,
Pleased with the task, he little thinks

How hard that chain will press, at last.

2. Vain was the man, and false as vain,

Who said: "Were he ordained to run
His long career of life again,

He would do all that he had done."
(pl) Ah! 'tis not thus the voice that dwells
In sober birth-days, speaks to me;
Far otherwise,-of time it tells
Lavished unwisely, carelessly,-
Of counsel mocked,-of talents made,
Haply, for high and pure designs,
But oft, like Israel's incense, laid
Upon unholy, earthly shrines,-
Of nursing many a wrong desire,-
Of wandering after Love too far,
And taking every meteor fire

That crossed my path-way, for his star!

3. All this it tells, and I could trace
The imperfect picture o'er again,
With power to add, retouch, efface
The lights and shades, the joy and pain,
How little of the past would stay!
How quickly all should melt away-

All-but that freedom of the mind,

Which hath been more than wealth to me,

Those friendships in my boyhood twined,

And kept till now unchangingly.

And that dear home, that saving ark,

Where love's true light, at last, I've found,
Cheering within when all grows dark,

And comfortless, and storm around.

QUESTIONS.-1. With what difference of feeling does the poet view the earlier and the later periods of life? 2. Who is described by the poet as vain and false? 3. How does the writer represent the voice of his birth-day as speaking? 4. What portion of the picture of his past life would the poet efface, and as gladly retain ?

LESSON CIX.

.WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

CHORUS, a singing together.

VEX A'TIONS, troubles.

sin.

UN IN TER MIT' TING, unceasing. SIN-PROMPTINGS, temptations to
FAL' TERS, hesitates; fails.
RIVEN, rent; torn off.

RES' O LUTE, firm; unbending.
AN' GUISH, extreme pain.
CLOD, dull, stupid fellow; dolt.

BE WAIL' ETH, bemoans; laments. AS SAIL ETH, invades; attacks. 1. SI RENS, two maidens celebrated in fable, who occupied an island in the Ocean, where they sat near the sea-shore, and with their melodious voices so charmed those sailing by, as to make them forget home and every thing else dear, and abide with those maidens till they perished from hunger. The name is usually derived from a Greek word (σɛɩpá, seira), signifying a chain or bond; in allusion to the binding or enchaining influence of their sweet music. Hence the term "world-Sirens" is employed in the following piece, as a strong expression for fascinations of the world.

LABOR.

FRANCES OSGOOD.

1. Pause not to dream of the future before us;
Pause not to weep the wild cares that come o'er us;
Hark! how Creation's deep musical chorus,
Unintermitting, goes up into Heaven!
Never the ocean-wave falters in flowing,
Never the little seed stops in its growing,
More and more richly the rose-heart keeps glowing,
Till from its nourishing stem it is riven.

2. "Labor is worship!"-the robin is singing;
"Labor is worship!"—the wild bee is ringing;