"WANDERING thralls of wandering master,

Hobbled, harness-galled, and rough,
Round the gnarléd thorn we pasture,
Picking scanty fare, and tough.
What to us are wind and weather,
Who ask no man's pains or pity?
Better toil through gorse and heather
Than through shrill and stifling city,
Like our vagrant lords, disdaining
City comfort, city care-

Leave us rough, but uncomplaining,

To our scanty moorland fare."

1. Imprisoned.

2. A town of Spain.

3. Uttered wrongly.

4. Excluded from the temporal things of this world.

5. Compliance with prescribed rule

of duty.

6. A distinguished marshal.

7. The aim of a gambler.

X.

"ONCE on a summer's eve,

When low the sun behind the Highland hills
Was almost set, he sung a song to cheer
The aged folks. Sudden a noise

Bursts rushing through the trees, a glance of steel
Dazzles the eye, and fierce the savage band
Glare all around, and single out their prey.
In vain the mother clasps her darling son;
In vain the sire offers their little all;

William is bound; they follow to the shore,
And view in mute despair the boat recede."

1. A Roman historian.

2. One of the first cities taken by the Crusaders.

3. An island in the Red Sea.

4. A distinguished admiral, 17th century.

5. A constellation.

6. A commentator.

7. A group of small islands near Skye.

8. A town of Naples.

9. A British poet, 18th century.

XI.

"I was cut off from hope-in that sad place, Which yet to name my spirit loathes and fears; My father held his hand upon his face,

I, blinded with my tears,

Still strove to speak, my voice was thick with sighs, As in a dream. Dimly I could descry

The stern black-bearded kings, with wolfish eyes,
Waiting to see me die.

The tall masts quivered as they lay afloat—
The temples, and the people, and the shore;
One drew a sharp knife through my tender throat
Slowly and nothing more."

1. The birthplace of Tacitus.

2. Beating gently.

3. The last King of Israel.

4. Cold refreshment.

5. A noted antiquary, 18th century.

6. A son of Shem.

7. A city of Palestine.

8. A town of Portugal.

9. Diffusive description.

XII.

"WHILE you sit grumbling there, about your precious rights,

I've been early up o' mornings; yes, and late to bed at nights,

A-washing and an-ironing, till sick I am and

cold;

While scarce a bit has passed my lips, and all our things are sold.

How happy once we used to live, when you were in employ,

With money, as the week came round, our Sunday to enjoy!

Don't talk of cruel masters-we could live upon their pay;

Nor yet about the hours-I work more than them a day.

Don't fuss about your delegates, with all their spouting clatter,

Which is not worth the rattle of a spoon against a platter."

1. A passion for obtaining the things of this life.

2. An aggression.

3. Flying report.

4. A Polish poet and author.

5. An incision.

6. One of a coterie.

7. A noted empiric.

XIII.

"He took the drawn sword, and with averted eyes, for it was a sight he loved not to look on, endeavoured to lay it on Ritchie's shoulder, but nearly stuck it into his eye."

1. An ancient town of Poland.

2. A Levite.

3. A town of Hindostan.

4. Spiritual advantage.

5. An ancient Latin divinity.

6. A jewel supposed to prevent intoxication.

7. A flow of honey.

8. A part of an architectural order.

9. Useful to lawyers and scholars.

XIV.

[TRIPLE ACROSTIC.

USEFUL ARTICLES.

1. The act of touching.

2. Fireside.

3. A negative state of mind.
4. Taken in a wrong sense.
5. A noisy quarrel.

6. A kitchen utensil.
7. Zealots.