tabour. A feast also was provided for our reception, at which we sat cheerfully down; and what the conversation wanted in wit was made up in laughter.

3. Our little habitation was situated at the foot of a sloping hill, sheltered with a beautiful underwood behind, and a prattling river before; on one side a meadow, on the other a green. My farm consisted of about twenty acres of excellent land, I having given a hundred pounds for my predecessor's goodwill. Nothing could exceed the neatness of my little inclosures; the elms and hedgerows appearing with inexpressible beauty.

4. My house consisted of but one story, and was covered with thatch, which gave it an air of great snugness; the walls on the inside were nicely whitewashed, and my daughters undertook to adorn them with pictures of their own designing. Though the same room served us for parlour and kitchen, that only made it the warmer. Besides, as it was kept with the utmost neatness, the dishes, plates, and coppers being well scoured, and all disposed in bright rows on the shelves, the eye was agreeably relieved, and did not want richer furniture. There were three other apartments; one for my wife and me, another for our two daughters within our own, and the third, with two beds, for the rest of the children.

5. The little republic to which I gave laws was regulated in the following manner: By sunrise we all assembled in our common apartment, the fire being previously kindled by the servant. After we had saluted each other with proper ceremony-for

I always thought fit to keep up some mechanical forms of good breeding, without which, freedom ever destroys friendship-we all bent in gratitude to that Being who gave us another day.

6. This duty being performed, my son and I went to pursue our usual industry abroad, while my wife and daughters employed themselves in providing breakfast, which was alway ready at a certain time. I allowed half an hour for this meal, and an hour for dinner; which time was taken up in innocent mirth between my wife and daughters, and in philosophical arguments between my son and me.

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7. As we rose with the sun, so we never pursued our labours after it was gone down, but returned home to the expecting family, where smiling looks, a neat hearth, and pleasant fire, were prepared for our reception. Nor were we without guests-sometimes farmer Flamborough, our talkative neighbour, and often the blind piper, would pay us a visit, and taste our gooseberry wine, for the making of which we had lost neither the receipt nor the reputation. These harmless people had several ways of being good company; while one played, the other would sing some soothing ballad. The night was concluded in the manner we began the morning, my youngest boys being appointed to read the lessons of the day; and he that read loudest, distinctest, and best, was to have a halfpenny on Sunday to put into the poor's-box.

re-treat'

Oliver Goldsmith.

pre-ced'-ed reg'-u-lat-ed phil-os-oph'-i-cal con-ven'-ien-ces re-cep'-tion as-sem'-bled

ar'-gu-ments

laugh'-ter

pre'-vi-ous-ly

re-cep'-tion

in-clos-ures cer'-e-mon-y

Flam'-bor-ough

a-gree'-a-bly me-chan'-i-cal ap-point'-ed

fes'-ti-vals

in'-ter-vals

Christ'-mas

re-lig'-ious-ly

op'-u-lence, wealth.

sup-er-flu'-i-ties, unnecessary things.

re-mote', distant from.

ioned plainness.

fru'-gal, thrifty.

dis-tinct'-est

festival of St Michael, which is celebrated on 29th September.

ap-prised', told.

prim-ev-al sim-plic'-i-ty, old-fash- ta'-bour, a small drum.

car'-ol, song.

Val'-en-tine morn'-ing, the morning

of the 14th February.

Shrove'-tide, the time immediately

before Lent.

pre-de-ces'-sor, one who held his

office before him.

good-will', (here) rights.

in-ex-pres'-si-ble, that cannot be ex-
pressed.

de-sign'-ing, drawing.
in'-dus-try, work.

Mi'-chael-mas eve, night before the re-pu-ta'-tion, good name.

con-clud'-ed, ended.

EXERCISES.-1. Name the verbs from which the following nouns are formed: Pleasure, provision, reception, relief, assembly, salutation, argument, appointment.

2. Make nouns from the following adjectives: Opulent, poor, superfluous, simple, frugal, temperate, certain, free, wise, harmless, useful.

3. Name the adjectives from which the following nouns are formed: Scarcity, idleness, excellence, innocence, security, cruelty, accuracy, truth, frugality.

4. Make sentences of your own, and use in each sentence one or more of the following words: Predecessor, remote, conclude, frugal.

THE STREET MUSICIAN

(OR THE POWER OF MUSIC).

1. An Orpheus! an Orpheus!-he works on the crowd,
He sways them with harmony merry and loud;
He fills with his power all their hearts to the brim-
Was aught ever heard like his fiddle and him?

2. What an eager assembly! what an empire is his!
The weary have life, and the hungry have bliss;
The mourner is cheered, and the anxious have rest;
And the guilt-burthened soul is no longer opprest.

3. That errand-bound 'prentice was passing in haste—
What matter! he's caught-and his time runs to waste;
The newsman is stopped, though he stops on the fret,
And the half-breathless lamplighter-he's in the net!

4. The porter sits down on the weight which he bore;
The lass with her barrow wheels hither her store;
If a thief could be here, he might pilfer at ease;
She sees the musician, 'tis all that she sees!

5. That tall man, a giant in bulk and in height,
Not an inch of his body is free from delight;
Can he keep himself still, if he would ?-oh, not he!
The music stirs in him like wind through a tree.

6. Mark that cripple-but little would tempt him to try
To dance to the strain and to fling his crutch by !-
That mother, whose spirit in fetters is bound,

While she dandles the babe in her arms to the sound.

7. Now, coaches and chariots! roar on like a stream;
Here are twenty souls happy as souls in a dream :
They are deaf to your murmurs-they care not for you,
Nor what ye are flying, nor what ye pursue!

THE ORIGIN OF RIVERS-I.

[Professor Tyndall, author of many important works on Heat, Light, Sound, and Alpine Glaciers, has written also a book on The Forms of Water, from which this lesson is taken.]

1. Let us trace a river to its source. Beginning where it empties itself into the sea, and following it backwards, we find it from time to time joined by tributaries which swell its waters. The river of course becomes smaller as these tributaries are passed. It shrinks first to a brook, then to a stream; this again divides itself into a number of smaller streamlets, ending in mere threads of