steep, that is to say, sloping, there was no place to land but where one end of the float, if it ran on shore, would lie so high, and the other sink lower as before, that it would endanger my cargo again. All that I could do was to wait till the tide was at the highest, keeping the raft with my oar like an anchor, to hold the side of it fast to the shore, near a flat piece of ground, which I expected the water would flow over; and so it did. As soon as I found water enough-for my raft drew about a foot of water—I thrust her on upon that flat piece of ground, and there fastened, or moored her, by sticking my two broken oars into the ground-one on one side, near one end, and one on the other side, near the other end; and thus I lay till the water ebbed away, and left my raft and all my cargo safe on shore.

EXERCISES.-1. Make adjectives from the following nouns: Reason, Europe, value, sand, use, water, wind, danger, pride, help. 2. Make nouns from the following verbs: Bear, provide, remain, disappoint, contain, know, drive, blow, dare, advise.

3. Name the nouns from which the following adjectives are formed: Triumphant, monthly, patient, angry, weekly, confidential, golden.

4. Make sentences of your own, and use in each sentence one or more of the following words: Resolve, navigation, ammunition, moored.

ROBINSON CRUSOE'S RAFT-II.

1. My next work was to view the country, and seek a proper place for my habitation, and where to stow my goods, to secure them from whatever might happen. Where I was, I yet knew not; whether on the continent or on an island-whether inhabited or not inhabited—whether in danger of wild beasts or not. There was a hill, not above a mile from me, which rose up very steep and high, and which seemed to overtop some other hills which lay as in a ridge from it northward. I took out one of the fowlingpieces, and one of the pistols, and a horn of powder; and thus armed, I travelled for discovery up to the top of that hill, where, after I had with great labour and difficulty got to the top, I saw my fate to my great affliction, namely, that I was in an island, environed every way with the sea-no land to be seen, except some rocks which lay a great way off, and two small islands less than this, which lay about three leagues to the west.

2. I found, also, that the island I was in was barren, and, as I saw good reason to believe, uninhabited, except by wild beasts, of which, however, I saw none. Yet I saw abundance of fowls, but knew not their kinds; neither, when I killed them, could I tell what was fit for food, and what not. At my coming back, I shot at a great bird, which I saw sitting upon a tree on the side of a great wood. I believe it was the first gun that had been fired there since the

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creation of the world. I had no sooner fired, but, from all parts of the wood, there arose an innumerable number of fowls of many sorts, making a confused screaming, and crying every one according to his usual note; but not one of them of any kind that I knew. As for the creature I killed, I took it to be a kind of a hawk, its colour and beak resembling it, but had no talons, or claws, more than common; its flesh was carrion, and fit for nothing.

3. Contented with this discovery, I came back to my raft, and fell to work to bring my cargo on shore, which took me up the rest of that day. And what to do with myself at night I knew not, nor indeed where to rest; for I was afraid to lie down on the ground, not knowing but some wild beast might devour me; though, as I afterwards found, there was really no need for those fears.

4. However, as well as I could, I barricaded myself round with the chests and boards that I had brought on shore, and made a kind of a hut for that night's lodging. As for food, I yet saw not which way to supply myself, except that I had seen two or three creatures like hares run out of the wood where I shot the fowl.

5. I now began to consider that I might yet get a great many things out of the ship, which would be useful to me, and particularly some of the rigging and sails, and such other things as might come to land, and I resolved to make another voyage to board the vessel, if possible. And as I knew that the first storm that blew must necessarily break her all in pieces, I resolved to set all other things apart, till

I got everything out of the ship that I could get. Then I called a council (that is to say, in my thoughts), whether I should take back the raft; but this appeared impracticable. So I resolved to go as before, when the tide was down, and I did so, only that I stripped before I went from my hut, having nothing on but a checked shirt and a pair of linen trousers, and a pair of pumps on my feet.

6. I got on board the ship as before, and prepared a second raft; and having had experience of the first, I neither made this so unwieldy, nor loaded it so hard, but yet I brought away several things very useful to me. As first, in the carpenter's stores, I found two or three bags full of nails and spikes, a great screw-jack, a dozen or two of hatchets, and, above all, that most useful thing called a grindstone. All these I secured, together with several things belonging to the gunner, particularly two or three iron crows, and two barrels of musket-bullets, seven muskets, and another fowling-piece, with some small quantity of powder more; a large bag full of small shot, and a great roll of sheet-lead. But this last was so heavy, I could not hoist it up to get it over the ship's side.

7. Besides these things, I took all the men's clothes that I could find, and a spare foretop-sail, hammock, and some bedding; and with this I loaded my second raft, and brought them all safe on shore, to my very

en-vir'-oned, surrounded.

league, about three and a half miles.
in-num'-er-a-ble, without number.
tal'-ons, claws of a bird of prey.
car'-ri-on, dead flesh.

bar-ri-cad'-ed, surrounded by way
of defence.

re-solved', made up his mind.

im-prac'-tic-a-ble, that could not be done.

crows, crowbars, bars of iron bent at one end.

ham'-mock, a piece of strong cloth or netting suspended by the ends to form a hanging bed.

EXERCISES.-1. Make nouns from the following nouns: Work, island, hill, rock, stream, gun, bag, prison, friend, village.

2. Make verbs from the following adjectives: Bright, just, clear, safe, sad, hard, regular, large.

3. Name the verbs from which the following nouns are formed: Inhabitant, traveller, discovery, affliction, belief, resemblance, agreement, gift, confidence, provision.

THE

SLAVE'S

DREAM.

[This poem is by Henry W. Longfellow, one of the best known and most frequently quoted of American poets. It describes a dying negro going back in imagination to Africa, his native land, and living over again some of his early days. Slavery is now happily abolished in America. ] 1. Beside the ungathered rice he lay,

His sickle in his hand;

His breast was bare, his matted hair
Was buried in the sand.

Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep,
He saw his native land.

2. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed;

Beneath the palm trees on the plain

Once more a king he strode;
And heard the tinkling caravans

Descend the mountain road.