As if ashamed of the heedless fall,

He gathered his strength once more for all,
And, galloping down a hillside steep,
Gained on the troopers at every leap;
No more the high-bred steed did reel,
But ran his best for Jennie McNeal.

They were a furlong behind or more,

When the girl burst through the colonel's door,
Her poor arm, helpless hanging with pain,
And she all drabbled and drenched with rain.
But her cheeks as red as fire-brands are,
And her eyes as bright as a blazing star,
And shouted: "Quick! be quick, be quick, I say!
They come! they come! Away! away!"
Then sank on the rude white floor of deal,
Poor, brave, exhausted Jennie McNeal.

The startled colonel sprung and pressed

The wife and children to his breast,

And turned away from his fireside bright,
And glided into the stormy night;
Then soon and safely made his way

To where the patriot army lay;

But first he bent, in the dim firelight,

And kissed the forehead broad and white, And blessed the girl who had ridden so well,

To keep him out of a prison cell.

The girl roused up at the martial din,
Just as the troopers came rushing in,
And laughed, e'en in the midst of a moan,
Saying "Good sirs, your bird has flown.
"Tis I who have scared him from his nest,
So deal with me now as you think best."

But the grand young captain bowed, and said— "Never you hold a moment's dread;

Of womanhood I must crown you queen;

So brave a girl I have never seen,

Wear this gold ring as your valor's due;

And when peace comes, I will come for you."
But Jennie's face an arch smile wore,

As she said, "There's a lad in Putnam's corps,
Who told me the same, long time ago;
You two would never agree, I know,

I promised my love to be true as steel,"
Said good, sure-hearted Jennie McNeal.

WILL CARLETON.

Spell and pronounce : — British, cloakless, perched, drenched, lioness, strewn, volley, valorous, unhitched, colonel, startled, galloping, high-bred, exhausted, Putnam, bridle-rein, and numbing.

grateful,

Give synonyms for valor, told, true, zeal, pursued, mute, swift, heedless, scared, dread, dismayed, answer, token, appeal, generous, reveal, and ceaseless.

Relate the cir

Who was Paul Revere? Who was Sheridan ? cumstances of their rides. What poems commemorate rides, and by whom written? Who was Putnam?

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What portions of this poem require tones of ordinary narration? At what points does the narrative become more animated? What passages should be rendered with very rapid and excited utterance? What examples of force occur? Where are the sentiments of gratitude and tenderness to be expressed? What lines require tones of hearty and enthusiastic commendation? What passage may express a roguish triumph? coyness? What lines describe something of the history and personal character of Jennie McNeal? Select all the terms that might be used to portray the character and conduct of Jennie McNeal :-as, "She was resolute, true," etc., and "Her conduct was brave, noble," etc.

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LESSON XCIX.

eon'se erāt'ed, made sacred. eon çil'i a'tion, reconciling; agreeing.

Єock'et, a custom-house certificate.

ǎf'fi dā'vit, a sworn statement in writing.

au'spi eāte, to foreshow.

in i'ti āte, to introduce by a rite.

ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA.

My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the Colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government;-they will cling and grapple to you; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.

But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing and their privileges another; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation: the cement is gone; the cohesion is loosened; and everything hastens to decay and dissolution. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.

The more they multiply, the more friends you will have; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your

natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly. This is the true act of navigation, which binds to you the commerce of the Colonies, and through them secures to you the wealth of the world. Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.

Do not entertain so weak an imagination, as that your registers and your bonds, your affidavits and your sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of your commerce. Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.

These things do not make your government. Dead instruments, passive tools as they are, it is the spirit of the English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English constitution, which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.

Is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in England? Do you imagine, then, that it is the land tax act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply, which gives you your army? or that it is the mutiny bill, which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No! surely no! It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your

army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians, who have no place among us; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material; and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles, which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the Church, Sursum Corda!

We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.

Let us get an- American revenue as we have got an American empire. English privileges have made it all that it is; English privileges alone will make it all it can be. BURKE