This thirsty dog, with his red tongue lolling out, does not scorn my hospitality, but stands on his hind legs and laps eagerly out of the trough. See how lightly he capers away again! Jowler, did your worship ever have the gout ?1 No 11. Your pardon, good people! I must interrupt my stream of eloquence, and spout forth a stream of water, to replenish the trough for this teamster and his two yoke of oxen, who have come from Topsfield, or somewhere along that way. part of my business is pleasanter than the watering of cattle. Look! how rapidly they lower the water-mark on the side of the trough,t till their capacious stomachs are moistened with a gallon or two a-piece, and they can afford time to breathe it in, with sighst of calm enjoyment. Now they roll their quiet eyes around the brim of their monstrous drinking-vessel. An ox is your true toper. 12. I hold myself the grand reformer of the age. From my spout, and such spouts as mine, must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of the vast portion of its crime and anguish, which has gushed from the fiery fountains of the still. In this mighty enterprise, the cow shall be my great confederate. Milk and water! 13. The Town PUMP and the cow! Such is the glorious copartnership that shall finally monopolize the whole business of quenching thirsts. Blessed consummation! Thenp Poverty shall pass away from the land, finding no hovel so wretched, where her squalid form may shelter itself. Then Disease, for lack of other victims, shall gnaw his own heart,P and die. Then Sin, if she do not die, shall lose half her strength. 14. Then there will be no war of households. The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy-a calm bliss of temperance affections-shall pass hand in hand through life, and lie down, not reluctantly, at its protracted close. To them the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were, and are to be, by a lingering smile of memory and hope. 15. Áhem! Dry work, this speechifying, especially to all unpractised orators. I never conceived till now, what toil the temperance lecturers undergo for my sake. Hereafter, they shall have the business to themselves. Do, some kind Christian, pump a stroke or two, just or wet my whistle. Thank you, Sir. 16. Are you all satisfied? Then wipe your mouths, my good friends; and, while my spout has a moment's leisure, I will delight the town with a few historical reminiscences. In far antiquity, beneath a darksome shadow of venerable boughs, a spring bubbled out of the leaf-strewna earth, in the very spot where you now behold me on the sunny pavement. The water was as bright and clear, and as precious, as liquid diamonds. The Indian sagamores drank of it, from time immemorial, till the fatal deluge of the fire-water burst upon the red men, and swept their whole race away from the cold foun tains. 17. Endicott and his followers came next, and often knelt down to drink, dipping their long beardsb in the spring. The richest goblet then, was of birch bark. Governor Winthrop, after a journey a-foot from Boston, drank here, out of the hollow of his hand. For many years it was the watering place, and as it were, the wash-bowl of the vicinity-whither all decent folks resorted to purify their visages, and gaze at them afterwards at least, the pretty maidens did-in the mirror, which it made. 18. One generation after another of those who drank of its waters, cast their waxing and waning shadows into its glassy bosom, and vanished from the earth, as if mortal life were but a fleeting image in a fountain. Finally, the fountain vanished also. Cellars were dug on all sides; and cart loads of gravel were flung upon its sources, whence oozed a turbid stream, forming a mud-puddle at the corner of the streets. 19. In the hot months, when its refreshment was most needed, the dust flew in clouds over the forgotten birth-place of the waters, now their grave. But in the course of time, a town pump was sunk into the sourceb of the ancient spring; and when the first decayed, another took its place and then another-till here I stand, gentlemen and ladies, to serve you with my iron goblet. 20. Drink and be refreshed the water is as pure and cool as that which slaked the thirst of the red sagamore beneath the aged boughs though now the gem of the wilderness is treasured under these hot stones where no shadow falls but from the brick buildings and be it the moral of my story that as this wasted and long lost fountain is now known and prized again so shall the virtues of cold water too little valued since our fathers' days be recognized by all. a § 26. 3. b Sound of the vowel? f Sound of s? c§ 3. 6. the rule for the punctuation. m § 22. 1. o§ 19. 1. p § 24. 1. of gh? § 3. 2 g § 23. 1. d Give t Sound No. 1. Who sustains the greatest amount of manifold duties? What title ought it to have? What station does it hold in the municipality? What does it exhibit to its brother officers? What is his business at noontide? How does it invite all? Who comes first? Describe the one who comes second. Who next? How was his speech interrupted? What does the pump consider itself? What is to proceed from him? What does it think of speechifying? What is the moral of this story? No. 2. Perpetuity, department, exhibit, sustains, intimacy, delicious, tenderly, replenish, elegance, households, venerable, immemorial, scarcely. No. 3. Strange for strainge, con-sar-ning for con-cern-ing, sar-vant for ser-vant. No. 6. Punctuate the last verse, and give the reason for each point. No. 10. Let the teacher point out, as a lesson, first verse. The pupil ought to be particular in the exercises, as it is of the utmost importance to him. What meaning is opposite to down, great, dead, just, long, pure, hot, public ? LESSON XXXVIII. READING. 1. AMIDST the profusion of advantages we enjoy in the present state, that of the art of printing must not be considered as the least. Before this happy invention, it need not be said what difficulties were in the way to mental acquirements. This art is replete with a variety of pleasant and lasting effects, and though, like all other favors, abused by the vicious and profane, it will be considered by the pious and wise as a cause for great gratitude. 2. As to reading, the sacred oracles should occupy our attention, and be the subject of our study, in preference to any other book whatever. Its sublime descriptions, historic relations, pure doctrines, and interesting sentiments, should not only be read, but remembered by all. 3. In the reading of other books the same object should be kept in view, as in reading this; I mean the improvement of *These anecdotes on reading are selected from the works of Buck, and the pupil ought to read it with care, as it will show him the importance of reading understandingly. our minds and the rectitude of our conduct. Some, indeed, read only for amusement, and not for profit, and on this account it is that they prefer a novel to a book that is calculated for real instruction, not remembering that these works of imagination, while they tend to raise pleasing sensations, too often infuse the subtle poison of loose principles and baneful immorality. 66 4. There are others who seem to have no taste for reading of any kind. Such we cannot expect to have enlarged minds or extensive knowledge; nor can they, I think, be the most happy part of the human race. Sorrow," as one observes, " is a kind of rust of the soul which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion." By reading, the mind is often refreshed, the powers exerted and enlivened, and the judgment informed. Men of sense and of religion have always delighted in it, and even amidst the bustle of the gay world, and in the brilliant career of heroism, men have retained a taste for reading. Whilst he was 5. Alexander was very fond of reading. filling the world with the fame of his victories, marking his progress by blood and slaughter, marching over smoking towns and ravaged provinces, and though hurried on by fresh ardor to new victories, yet he found time hang heavy upon him when he had no book. 6. Brutus spent among books all those moments which he could spare from the duties of his office; even the day before the celebrated battle of Pharsalia, which was about to decide the empire of the universe, he was busy in his tent, and employed till night in making an extract from Polybius. 7. Pliny, the elder, while at his meals, made some one read to him; and, when he traveled, he had always a book and conveniences for writing along with him. 8. Petrarch was always low spirited when he did not read or write. That he might not lose time when he traveled, he wrote in all the inns where he stopped. One of his friends, the bishop of Cavillon, fearing that he would by this ardor injure his health, begged him one day to give him the key of his library. Petrarch consented, not knowing what he was going to do with it. The bishop locked up his books, and forbade him to read or write for ten days. Petrarch obeyed, though with the greatest reluctance; but the first day appeared longer to him than a year; the second, he had a headache from morning to night, and the third, he found himself, early in the morning, very feverish. The good bishop, touched with his condition, restored him the key, and at the same time his health and spirits. 9. Alcibiades, meeting with a schoolmaster who had none of Homer's works, could not forbear giving him a box on the ear, and treating him as an ignorant fellow, and one who could not make any other than ignorant scholars. "Must we not the same," says Rollin, " of a professor who has no books?" 10. Valesius borrowed books of every body, and used to say, "He learned more from borrowed books than from his own; because, not having the same opportunity of reviewing them, he read them with more care." say 11. Archbishop Usher, suspecting that the Fathers had been misquoted by Stapleton, a Papist, took up a firm resolution, "That in due time, (if God gave him life,) he would read all the Fathers, and trust none but his own eyes in searching out their sense:" which great work he began at twenty years of age, and finished at thirty-eight; strictly confining himself to read such a portion every day, from which he suffered no occasion to divert him. 12. William King, the poet, at eighteen years of age, was elected to Christ's Church, where he is said to have prosecuted his studies with so much intenseness and activity, that, before he was of eight years standing, he had read over and made remarks upon twenty-two thousand odd hundred books and manuscripts. 13. Pope says, "That from 14 to 20 he read only for amusement; from 20 to 27 for improvement and instruction; that, in the first part of his time, he desired only to know; and in the second, he endeavored to judge." 14. Bishop Butler's abstruse work on the analogy of religion to human nature, was a favorite book with Queen Caroline. She told Mr. Sale, the orientalist, "That she read it every day at breakfast;" so light did her metaphysical mind make of that book, which Dr. Hoadly, Bishop of Winchester, said he could never look into without making his headache. 15. There are some books which require peculiar attention in reading, in order to understand them. A spruce macaroni was boasting, one day, that he had the most happy genius in the world, Every thing," said he, "is easy to me; people |