LESSON XII.

"Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes ! " 27
The cook will braise meat until brown and tender.
The donkey brays and scares the new-comers.
The tinker will braze the broken brass utensils.
The garment was bound with olive-colored braid.
As we approached the hut, our donkey brayed loudly.
The flock escaped through a breach in the inclosure.
The explosion badly shattered the breech of the gun.
She rubs, and scrubs, and bakes, and brews.
By an accident, his spine received a bruise.

LESSON XIII.

"With fine wheaten bread was the leper fed,
'Twas red wine he drank with his thirsty soul." 28
The governess appeared well-bred and polite.

"The prelate was to speech addressed,

Each head sunk reverent on each breast." 29

The belated seamen took refuge in the harbor of Brest.

Ancient Britain included England and Wales.
The modern Briton is courageous and enterprising.

We must broach the subject of a vacation soon.
A modest jet brooch was the only ornament visible.

LESSON XIV.

The heifer was turned out to browse in the thicket.

His brows lowered, expressing great anger.

A borough is usually smaller than a city.

A rabbit-burrow has long passages and many openings. "But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow." 80 The prostrate Sequoia is forty feet across the butt. "Then listen, fair lady, and you, pretty maiden, And buy of a wandering Bavarian a broom.” 81 The circus made a fine display as it went by.

LESSON XV.

The infirm old man totters along with his cane.
Then Cain rose up against Abel and slew him.
We need a new calendar or almanac yearly.
A calender puts the gloss upon writing-paper.
"The cannon are pointed and ready to roar,
And crush the walls they have crumbled before." 82
A canon is a law regulating church polity.

A revenue officer seized the cask of smuggled liquor.
"When doffed his casque, he felt free air,
Around 'gan Marmion wildly stare." 83

LESSON XVI.

A candid mind is not apt to be biased in judgment.
From long keeping, sweetmeats become candied.

The surveyors had a new canvas tent for shelter.
In a recent canvass, illegal votes were detected.
The United States capital was located in 1800.
The first Capitol was burned by the British in 1814.
The rope was cast off, setting the craft adrift.
The Brahmans of India constitute the priestly caste.

The plated caster contained seven cruets.

The name castor is applied to the beaver hat.

LESSON XVII.

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Ring out a slowly dying cause,

And ancient forms of party strife ! " 84

The crow caws as he lazily flaps by.

Bonaparte consented to cede Louisiana to the United

States.

Grass and clover seed are sowed broadcast.

We will ceil the library with beams and panels.

The Arctic seal is an amphibious animal.

The motto on the seal of New York is "Excelsior."

The wood ceiling was browned by smoke and age.

After sealing the documents, the attorneys adjourned.

LESSON XVIII.

A cellar should be well lighted and ventilated. An upright seller will not conceal defects in goods. "Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute ! '' 35 The detected culprits were sent away in disgrace. "You may break, you may ruin, the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.” 36 Nearly all cereal productions are of the temperate

zone.

Serial publications are constantly on the increase. The cession of Florida by Spain was concluded in 1819. The regular session of Congress begins in December.

LESSON XIX.

"The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell;
The fruits his food, his drink the crystal well." "
Like Esau, fools sell birthrights for pottage.
"He hears his daughter's voice,

Singing in the village choir.” 88

A quire of paper contains twenty-four sheets.

The justice will cite the witness to appear.

"Now, in darkness and billows, he sweeps from my

sight;

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Rise, rise! ye wild tempests, and cover his flight.”

The site of Jerusalem is admirable for defense.

LESSON XX.

Firm opposition aroused the general's choler.
The orator's collar hung limp over his cravat.
A chord struck on the piano commanded silence.
The clothes-line was a hemp or linen cord.

Lingering diseases are chronical and often incurable.
One composition was a chronicle of school events.
Study each clause of the preamble and constitution.
The sepoy was snatched from the claws of a tiger.
John the Baptist was clad in coarse raiment.
The river's course was marked by rapids and cataracts.

LESSON XXI.

"No pathway meets the wanderer's ken, Unless he climb with footing nice

A far-projecting precipice." 40

"Know

ye the land where the cypress and myrtle

Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?" 41

Cannel and bituminous coal burn with a blaze.

Cole-slaw is cabbage chopped or shaved.

"His coat, it was shockingly worn,

And the rust had invested his vest." 42
The dove cooes to his mate in the cote.