quietly afterwards?

Shall I ever dare to look any

one in the face? That is very true. Nevertheless I shall become rich suddenly; I shall be able to ride in my coach, to have fine clothes, and something to live upon luxuriously every day.

"Then if I should be discovered! they discover me? Nobody sees me.

But how can

Nobody! Does not, then, God see me? He who is every where? Should I dare to address my prayers to him if I committed this theft ? Could I die in peace?"

At this thought an icy chillness came over him. "No," said he, replacing the diamonds, "rather let me have poverty with a good conscience, than riches with villany." And as he said this, he hastily returned by the way which he came.

The princess, whose sleeping-room was adjoining to this, had seen and heard all that had passed. She recognized the little boy by the light of the moon, and the next day she went to his house. "Hear me,

my little fellow," said she; "when you came to my apartment last night, why did you not take my watch and diamonds?"

The little boy fell at her feet, and so great was his fear, he could not utter a single word.

"I heard the whole," said the princess: "thank God, my child, that he enabled you to resist the temptation; and endeavor henceforth to sustain yourself in the way of every virtue.

"From this moment you are to live with me. I

will feed and clothe you. I will do still more. I will bring you up under my own care, and give you such an education that the remembrance of one bad action shall return to you no more."

The child wept bitterly. He wished to express his thanks, but he could not; he could only sob, and clasp his hands.

The princess kept her word. This little boy was well brought up; and his benefactress had the satisfaction and delight of seeing him, as he advanced in life, become a learned, good, and pious man.

LESSON VIII.

TABLE OF CONSONANT ELEMENTS.

m as in man, move, aim, came.
n as in net, not, can, ran.

p as in pen, pin, fop, top.

r as in roll, roam, room, round.

Advocate, (not advùcate,) desolate, immolate, commemorate, colony, harmony, melody, prosody, rhapsody, opposite, theorem, theorist.

Note to the Teacher. The letter r, in the above words, should be slightly trilled. It is formed by joining the tip of the tongue against the roof of the mouth near the fore-teeth.

The Child in Search of her Father.

THEY say I was but four years old,

When father went away;
Yet I have never seen his face
Since that sad parting day.

He went where brighter flowerets grow
Beneath Virginia skies;

Dear teacher, show me on your map
Where that far country lies.

I begged him, "Father, do not go !
For since my mother died,

I love no one so well as you;"
And, clinging to his side,

The tears came gushing down my cheeks,

Until my eyes were dim;

Some were in sorrow for the dead,
And some, in love for him.

He knelt and prayed of God above,
"My little daughter spare,
And till we both shall meet again,
O, keep her in thy care."

He does not come ! -I watch for him.
At evening twilight gray,

Till every shadow wears his shape
Along the grassy way.

I muse, and listen all alone,

When stormy winds are high,

And think I hear the tender tone,
And call, but no reply;

And so I've done these four long years,
Within a lonely home;

Yet every dream of hope is vain:
Why don't my father come? *

Father, dear father, are you sick
Upon a stranger shore? +
Grandmother says it must be so:
O, write to us once more,
And let your little daughter come
To smooth your restless bed,
And hold the cordial to your lips,
And press your aching head.

Alas! I fear me he is dead:
Who will my trouble share,
Or tell me where his form is laid,
And let me travel there?
By mother's tomb I love to sit,
Where the green branches wave:
Good people, help an orphan child
To find her father's grave.

* Sentences commencing with an interrogative pronoun or adverb, generally close with the falling inflection.

↑ Sentences that do not begin with a pronoun or adverb, generally close with the rising inflection.

LESSON IX.

TABLE OF CONSONANT ELEMENTS.

r as in war, burr, fur, sir.
s as in sin, since, hiss, miss.
t as in take, town, hat, mat.

v as in vain, vine, live, love.

Follow, (not foller,) hollow, bellow, mellow, meadow, window, widow, tobacco, potato, memento.

The Pitfall, or the Advantage of always telling the Truth.

I WILL tell you of a pitfall dug for a little boy by one of his play-fellows. The little boy's name was Edwin, and the boy who wished to entrap him was called Theodore.

Edwin was a great favorite with the master, because he always came with his tasks ready prepared, and did nothing to give offence by word or deed. But Theodore was a very different lad, for he often missed his tasks, and took every opportunity to deceive his teachers.

Theodore, observing the good opinion Edwin had obtained, wickedly determined to get him into some trouble, if it were possible; "For," said he to himself, "I am tired of always hearing him praised, and hate to see him obtain rewards and gifts, when I

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