light and darkness, all the same, as if the light of London, fifty miles away, were quite enough to travel by, and some to spare. Yoho! beside the village green, where cricket-players linger yet, and every little indentation made in the fresh grass by bat or wicket, ball or player's foot, sheds out its perfume on the night. 10. Away with four fresh horses from the Bald-faced Stag, where topers congregate about the door admiring, and the last team, with traces hanging loose, go roaming off towards the pond, until observed and shouted after by a dozen throats, while volunteering boys pursue them. Now with the clattering of hoofs and striking out of fiery sparks, across the old stone bridge, and down again into the shadowy road, and through the open gate, and far away, away into the wold. Yoho! High up 11. See the bright moon! before we know it: making the earth reflect the objects on its breast like water. Hedges, trees, low cottages, church steeples, blighted stumps and flourishing young slips, have all grown vain upon the sudden, and mean to contemplate their own fair images till morning. The poplars yonder rustle, that their quivering leaves may see themselves upon the ground. 12. Not so the oak; trembling does not become him; and he watches himself in his stout old burly steadfastness, without the motion of a twig. The moss-grown gate, ill-poised upon its creaking hinges, crippled and decayed, swings to and fro before its glass like some fantastic dowager; while our own ghostly likeness travels on, Yoho! Yoho through ditch and brake, upon the ploughed land and the smooth, along the steep hill-side and steeper wall, as if it were a phantom-hunter. 13. Clouds, too! And a mist upon the hollow! Not a dull fog that hides it, but a light, airy, gauze-like mist, which in our eyes of modest admiration gives a new charm to the beauties it is spread before. Yoho! Why, now we travel like the moon herself. Hiding this minute in a grove of trees; next minute in a patch. of vapour; emerging now upon our broad clear course; withdrawing now, but always dashing on, our journey is a counterpart of hers. moon ! Yoho! A match against the 14. The beauty of the night is hardly felt, when day comes leaping up. Yoho! Two stages, and the country roads are almost changed to a continuous street. Yoho! past market-gardens, rows of houses, villas, crescents, terraces, and squares; past waggons, coaches, carts; past early workmen, late stragglers, drunken men, and sober carriers of loads; past brick and mortar in its every shape; and in among the rattling pavements, where a jaunty-seat upon a coach is not so easy to preserve! Yoho! down countless turnings, and through countless mazy ways, until an old inn-yard is gained, and Tom Pinch, getting down, quite stunned and giddy, is in London ! DICKENS. Grammar. (1) Analyse "It rattled noisily through the best streets. (2) Parse "might," "have," "confused," "sitting," "next," and " next," and "emperor," in paragraph 2. (3) Write out all the verbs, nouns, adverbs, and adjectives that you can form from the following words:-disposed, splendour, confused, valuable, instructions. (4) What is meant by an extension? What part of speech does it perform the work of? C Missouri, chief branch of the Missis species, kind. sippi River. broken tribes of the prairies, the In dians who have decreased in number. fastnesses, strongholds; fortified places. mast, the fruit of the beech and similar trees. carnivorous, flesh-eating. heroic game, most courageous. chase into a blockade, hunt into a strict watch. rigorously, sternly; without abate- warily, very cautiously. menace, threatening attitude. 1. The grizzly bear is the only really formidable quadruped of the American continent. He is the favourite theme of the hunters of the Far West, who describe him as equal in size to the common cow, and of prodigious strength. He makes battle if assailed, and often, if pressed by hunger, is the assailant. If wounded, he becomes furious, and will pursue the hunter. His speed exceeds that of a man, but is inferior to that of a horse. 2. In attacking, he rears himself on his hind legs, and springs the length of his body. Woe to horse or rider that comes within the sweep of his terrific claws, which are sometimes nine inches in length, and tear everything before them. common 3. At one time the grizzly bear was on the Missouri and in the lower country, but, like some of the broken tribes of the prairies, he has gradually fallen back before his enemies, and is now chiefly to be found in the upper regions, in rugged fastnesses, like those of the Black Hills and the Rocky Mountains. Here he lurks in caverns, or holes which he has dug in the sides of hills, or under the roots and trunks of fallen trees. Like the common bear, he is fond of fruits, and mast, and roots, the latter of which he will dig up with his fore claws. He is |