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Welsh words in English. Thus you see that our forefathers really became the people of the land in all that part of Britain which they conquered. For they had killed or driven out all the former people, save those whom they kept as mere slaves. Thus they kept their own language, their own manners, and their own religion.

Now you will perhaps say that our forefathers were cruel and wicked men thus to come into the land of another people, and to take the land to themselves and to kill or make slaves of the men to whom it belonged. And so doubtless it was. But you must remember that we were then both a heathen and a barbarous people, and that it is not fair to judge our fathers by the same rules as if they had been either Christians or civilized men. And I am afraid that men who called themselves both Christian and civilized have, even in quite late times, treated the people of distant lands quite as badly as ever our forefathers treated the Welsh. But anyhow it has turned out much better in the end that our forefathers did thus kill or drive out nearly all the people whom they found in the land. The English were thus able to grow up as a nation in Britain, and their laws, manners, and language grew up with them, and were not copied from those of other nations.

We may be sure that a great many different Teutonic tribes had a share in this great movement across the seas. But they seem to have all been nearly akin to each other, and to have spoken much the same language. Three tribes especially are spoken of above all others,

the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes; and of these it was that the land was mainly overspread. Of these three, the Saxons are those of whom we hear first; and this is no doubt the reason why the Celtic people in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland call all Englishmen Saxons to this day. But the Angles took a greater part of the land than any of the others, so that it was they who, in the end, gave their name to the land and its people. As the Teutons in Britain began to grow together into one people, they were sometimes called the Anglo-Saxons —that is, the people made up of the Angles and Saxons --but more commonly they were called Angles or English alone. And when so much of Britain as the Teutons lived in came to have a common name, that name was ENGLALAND or ENGLAND, that is, the land of the Angles or ENGLISH. Saxon by itself always meant the people of those parts only where the Saxons settled, and the whole people was never called so except by the Celts.

Thus it was that our fathers came into the land where we now dwell; and, like the men whom we read of in old times, they called the land after their own

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DOWN ON THE SHORE.

Down on the shore, on the sunny shore !

Where the salt smell cheers the land; Where the tide moves bright under boundless light, And the surge on the glittering strand;

Where the children wade in the shallow pools,

Or run from the froth in play;

Where the swift little boats with milk-white wings Are crossing the sapphire bay,

And the ship in full sail, with a fortunate gale,

Holds proudly on her way;

Where the nets are spread on the grass to dry,

And asleep, hard by, the fishermen lie,

Under the tent of the warm blue sky, With the hushing wave on its golden floor To sing their lullaby.

Down on the shore, on the stormy shore!
Beset by a growling sea,

Whose mad waves leap on the rocky steep
Like wolves up a traveller's tree;

Where the foam flies wide, and an angry blast
Blows the curlew off, with a screech;

Where the brown sea-wrack, torn up by the roots,
Is flung out of fishes' reach;

Where the tall ship rolls on the hidden shoals,
And scatters her planks on the beach;
Where slate and straw through the village spin,
And a cottage fronts the fiercest din,
With a sailor's wife sitting sad within,
Hearkening the wind and the water's roar,
Till at last her tears begin.

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W. ALLINGHAM.

bound'-less

góld-en

cùr-lew

surge, large waves, great swell-
ing masses of water. Lat.
"to rise."
surgere,
the sapphire bay (saf-fir), the
bay, which appears like sap-
phire-a precious stone, in-
ferior to the diamond in

brilliancy, and of various shades of blue.

lùll-a-by, song to quiet or
soothe one to sleep.

be-sèt, set or pressed upon,
closely hemmed in.
wrack (rak), sea-plant, sea-
weed.

CRUSOE AND HIS BOAT.

My desire to venture over for the main increased rather than decreased, as the means for it seemed impossible This at length put me upon thinking whether it was not possible to make myself a canoe, such as the natives of those climates make, even without tools, or, as I might say, without hands, of the trunk of a great tree. This I not only thought possible, but easy, and pleased myself extremely with the thoughts of making it, and with my having much more convenience for it than any of the Negroes or Indians; but not at all considering the particular inconveniences which I lay under more than the Indians did, namely, want of hands to move it, when it was made, into the water—a difficulty much harder for me to surmount than all the consequences of want of tools could be to them; for what was it to me, if, when I had chosen a vast tree in the woods, and with much trouble cut it down, if I had been able with my tools to hew and dub the outside into the proper shape of a boat, and burn or cut out the inside to make it hollow, so as to make a boat of it-if, after all this, I must leave it just there where I found it, and not be able to launch it into the water?

One would have thought I could not have had the least reflection upon my mind of my circumstances while I was making this boat, but I should have immediately thought how I should get it into the sea; but my thoughts

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