water, and swam across the channel which lay between the ship and the sands, and even that with difficulty enough, partly with the weight of the things I had about me, and partly from the roughness of the water: for the wind rose very hastily, and before it was quite high water it blew a storm.

18. But I had got home to my little tent, where I lay with all my wealth about me very secure.

It blew very hard all that night, and in the morning, when. looked out, behold, no ship was to be seen! I was a little surprised, but recovered myself with this satisfactory reflection, that I had lost no time, nor omitted any diligence, to get every thing out of her that could be useful to me; and that, indeed, there was little left in her that I was able to bring away, if I had had more time.

2. By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,

By twenty thorps, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.

3. Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river;
For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever.

4. I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles; 2
I bubble into eddying bays;
I babble on the pebbles.

5. With many a curve my bank I fret3
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set

With willow-weed and mallow.

6. I chatter, chatter, as I flow

To join the brimming river;
For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever.

7. I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

1thorps, small villages.

2 trebles, sounds like the treble, or highest part in music. 4 grayling, a trout-like fish.

3 fret, chafe.

8. And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me as I travel,

With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel,

9. And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river;

For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever.

10. I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers,
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.

11. I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallows; I make the netted sunbeam dance

Against my sandy shallows.

12. I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;

I linger by my shingly 1 bars;
I loiter round my cresses;

13. And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river;

For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever.

1 shingly, pebbly.

dam'sel [-zel], a young unmarried per-plex'i-ty, embarrassment.

woman.

dis-con'so-late, filled with grief.
im-por'tance, weight, consequence.

proof, test.

spin'dle, the rod in a spinningwheel.

1. THERE was once a miller who was very poor, but he had a beautiful daughter. Now, it happened that he came to speak to the king, and, to give himself importance, he said to him, "I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold."