bad" one; but I do wish you to treat him kindly wherever you meet him, and let your influence and your example be good."

a Why a comma? b Why a semicolon? c What is the sound of the vowel ? d Why a period? f What is a quotation? e § 43. 12. g Why an exclamation ? o Why a double consonant?

n Sound of a? t Why capital?

m What is the sound of h?

What were the names of these two boys? Where were they going? What did Robert tell the shopman? What did the man with the newspaper say? What did Sam say to him after they left the shop? Robert's reply? Sam's reply to this? How did Robert feel after this conversation? What did Sam say about his sums? What was Robert's advice to him? What did Sam wish him to do? How did he feel after Robert's refusal ? To whom did Robert relate the affair? What did his father say to him? If a boy should deceive once, would he not be likely to do it again?

No. 2. Persuade, circumstances, dishonest, mistake, composition, kindly, continue.

No. 3. Tu for two, win-der for win-dow, cre-ture for creat-yure, change for chainge.

No. 4. Conduct' and con'duct, refus'e and re'fuse, ob'ject and object'. No. 7. Buy, bye, and by, principle and principal, been and bin, not and knot.

No. 10. Analyze the first verse.

No. 12. All the words in the last verse.

How many different meanings has rest, cross, like, right.

LESSON XXXV.

ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER.

1. Nor in prosperity's broada lightb
Can reason justly scan

The sterling worth, which, viewed aright,
Most dignifies the man ;n
Favored at once by wind and tide,
A skilless pilot well may guidea
The bark in safety on;

Yet, when his harbor he has gain'd,
He who no conflict hath sustain'd,
No meed has fairly won.

2. But in adversity's dark hour,b
Of peril and of fear,

When clouds above the vessel lower,

With scarce one star to cheer;

When winds are loud and waves are high,
And ocean to a timid eye

Appears the seaman's grave;
Amid the conflict, calm, unmoved,
By truth's unerring test is proved
The skillful and the brave.

3. For Scotland's and for Freedom's right
The Bruce his part had play'd:
In five successive fields of fight
Been conquered and dismay'd ;n
Once more against the English host
His band he led, and once more. lost
The meed for which he fought;
And now, from battle faint and worn,
The homeless fugitive forlorn

A hut's lone shelter sought.

4. And cheerless was that resting place
For him who claim'd a throne;
His canopy, devoid of grace,

The rude rough beams alone;
The heather couch his only bed,—
Yet well I know had slumber fled
From couch of eidera-down;
Through darksome night to dawn of day,
Immersed in wakefulb thoughts he lay
Of Scotland and her crown.

5. The sun rose brightly, and its gleam
Fell on that hapless bed;

And tinged with light each shapeless beam
Which roof'd the lowly shed;
When looking up with wistful eye,n
The Bruce beheld a Spider try
His filmy thread to fling

From beam to beam of that rude cot;n
And well the insect's toilsome lot
Taught Scotland's future king.n

6. Six times his gossamery thread
The weary Spider threw :"

In vain the filmy line was sped;
For powerless or untrue

Each aim appear'd, and back recoil'd
The patient insect, six times foil'd,
And yet unconquer'd still ;n

And soon the Bruce with eager eye,"
Saw him prepare once more to try
His courage, strength, and skill.

7. One effort more, its seventh and last !n
The hero hail'd the sign!

And on the wish'd for beam hung fast
The slender, silky line.

Slight as it was, his spirit caught
The more than omen, for his thought
The lesson well could trace,
Which even "he who runs may read,"
That perseverance gains its meed,
And patience wins the race.b

8. Is it a tale of mere romance ?ao
Its moral is the same;
A light and trivial circumstance?
Some thought, it still may claim.
Art thou a father? teach thy sona
Never to deem that all is done,

While aught remains untried;"
To hope, though every hope seem crost;
And when his bark is tempest-tost,n
Still calmly to confide.

9. Hast thou been long and often foil'd
By adverse winds and seas,
And vainly struggled, vainly toil'd,
For what some win with ease?
Yet bear up heart, and hope, and will,o
Nobly resolv'd to struggle still,

With patience persevere;

Knowing, when darkest seems the night,
The dawn of morning's glorious light
Is swiftly drawing near,

10. Art thou a Christiano shall the frown
Of fortune cause dismayo

The Bruce but won an earthly crown
Which long hath pass'd away
For thee a heavenly crown awaits
For thee are ope'd the pearly gates
Prepared the deathless palm
But bear in mind that only those
Who persevere unto the close
Can join in Victory's psalm.

a Sound of the vowel? b What figure of speech? c§ 17. 1. the reason for these pauses.

o What inflections?

n Give No. 1. Who was Robert Bruce? Against whom did he fight? What did he fight for? How many times had he been defeated? Where was his resting place? How did he spend the night? What did he see there? What lesson did Bruce learn from him? What instruction may we get from this story? What lesson may a parent and Christian learn from it?

No. 2. Skilless, unmoved, immersed, toilsome, successive, adverse, dignify, skillful, confi'de, sustained, glorious, prepare.

No. 4. Conflict' and con'flict, presage' and preʼsage, con'duct and conduct', pur'port and purport'.

No. 6. Punctuate last verse.

No. 7. Tied and tide, meed, Mede, and mead, sign and sine, done and dun, one and won, son and sun, seas and seize.

No. 8. § 2. 1. 2. 3. § 3. 2. 15.

No. 10. Verse 1st. Mention the different sentences, tell what kind they are, also the subjects, predicates, and objects, with the respective modifiers of each.

No. 12. Spell and define the words in the first verse, and all the important words in the lesson.

Mention the different meanings of shed, well, long, fast lot,

LESSON XXXVI.

SINGULAR ADVENTURE OF A BRITISH SOLDIER IN A
CAMPAIGN IN AMERICA.

1. In the year 1779, when the war with aAmerica was conducted with great spirit, a division of the British army was encamped on the banks of a river, and in a position so favored by nature, that it was difficult for any military art to surprise it. Wara in America was rather a species of hunting than a regular campaign.b “If you fight with art," said Washington, to the soldiers, "you are sure to be defeated.

Acquirea discipline enough for concert, and the uniformity of combined attack, and your country will prove the best engineer."

2. So true was this maxim of the American General, that the British soldiers had to contend with little else. The Americans had incorporated the Indians into their ranks, and had made them useful in a species of war, to which their habits of life had peculiarly fitted them. They sallied out of their impenetrable forests and jungles, and, with their arrows and tomahawks, committed daily waste upon the British army, surprising their sentinels, cutting off their stragglers, and even, when the alarm was given, and pursuit commenced, they fled, with a swiftness the speed of cavalry could not overtake, into rocks and fastnesses, whither it was dangerous to follow them.

3. In order to limit, as far as possible, this species of war, in which there was so much loss and so little honor, it was the custom of every regiment to extend its outposts to a great distance beyond the encampments; to station sentinels some miles in the woods, and keep a constant guard round the main body. A regiment of foote was, at this time, stationed upon the confines of a boundlesse savannah. Its particular office was to guard every avenue of approach to the main body; the sentinels, whose posts penetrated into the woods,e were supplied from the ranks, and the service of this regiment was thus more hazardous than that of any other. Its loss was likewise great. The sentinels were perpetually surprised upon their posts by the Indians; and, what was most astonishing, they were borne off their stations without communicating any alarm, or being heard of afterwards.

4. Not a trace was left of the manner in which they had been conveyed away, except that, upon one or two occasions, a few drops of bloode had appeared upon the leaves which covered the ground. Many imputed this unaccountable disappearance to treachery, and suggested as an unanswerable argument, that the men thus surprised might at least have fired their muskets, and communicated the alarm to the contiguous posts. Others, however, who could not be brought to consider it as treachery, were content to receive it as a mystery which time would explain. One morning, the sentinels having been stationed as usual over night, the guard went at sunrise to relieve a post which extended a considerable distance into the