This field lying fallow-that heifer just bought

Were favourite themes for discussion and thought.

6. The merits and faults of a neighbour just dead

The hopes of a couple about to be wedThe Parliament doings-the Bill, and Debate

Were all canvassed and weighed at the Old Farm-gate.

Grammar. (1) Pick out all the adverbs in this lesson. (2) Parse ""Twas here that the urchins would gather to play."

winging our moments-i.e., pleasure my growing hand, my childish

gilding our name, making it famous relic, thing that reminds of the past. or glorious by fame.

banish, drive away.

1. 'Twas over that gate I taught Pincher to

bound

With the strength of a steed and the grace of a hound.

The beagle might hunt, and the spaniel might swim,

But none could leap over that postern like him.

2. When Dobbin was saddled for mirth-mak

ing trip,

And the quickly-pulled willow-branch served for a whip,

Spite of lugging and tugging, he'd stand for his freight;

While I climbed on his back from the Old Farm-gate.

3. 'Tis well to pass portals where pleasure and fame

May come winging our moments and gilding our name;

But give me the joy and the freshness of mind,

When, away on some sport, the old gate slammed behind :

4. I've listened to music, but none that could speak

In such tones to my heart as that teethsetting creak

That broke on my ear when the night had worn late,

And the dear ones came home through the Old Farm-gate.

5. Oh fair is the barrier taking its place, But it darkens a picture my soul longed

to trace.

I sighed to behold the rough staple and hasp, And the rails that my growing hand scarcely could clasp.

6. Oh! how strangely the warm spirit grudges to part

With the commonest relic once linked to the heart;

And the brightest of fortune, the kindliest fate,

Would not banish my love for the Old Farm-gate.

ELIZA COOK.

Grammar. (1) Analyse "The strong wind blew the old tree down." (2) Parse "When the moon was above." (3) Make six compound nouns, each formed of two nouns, as railway. (4) Make three sentences with an adjective for the subject.

LESSON LX.

THE SHIPWRECK.

1. The moon is sunk; and a clouded grey Declares that her course is run,

And, like a god who brings the day,
Up mounts the glorious sun.

2. Soon as his light has warmed the seas, From the parting cloud fresh blows the breeze;

And that is the spirit whose well-known

3. No fears hath she; her giant form O'er wrathful surge, through blackening

storm,

Majestically calm would go,

'Mid the deep darkness, white as snow

4. But gently now the small waves glide, Like playful lambs o'er a mountain's side. So stately her bearing, so proud her array, The main she will traverse for ever and aye. Many ports will exult at the gleam of her mast;

Hush! hush! thou vain dreamer! this hour is her last.

5. Five hundred souls in one instant of dread Are hurried o'er the deck;

And fast the miserable ship
Becomes a lifeless wreck.

6. Her keel hath struck on a hidden rock,
Her planks are torn asunder,

And down come her masts with a reeling shock,

And a hideous crash like thunder.

7. Her sails are draggled in the brine, That gladdened like the skies,

And her pendant, that kissed the fair moonshine,

Down many a fathom lies.

WILSON.

Grammar.—(1) Analyse verse 6. (2) Form all the words you can from soul, dread, ship, rock, fathom, day,

sun.

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