"I pulled too: I was blind with fear;
But I could hear Dick's breath
Coming and going, as he told
Dolly to creep beneath

His jacket, and not hold him so:
We rowed for life or death.

"We almost reached the sheltered bay;

We could see father stand

Upon the little jetty here,

His sickle in his hand;

The houses white, the yellow fields,
The safe and pleasant land.

"And Dick, though pale as any ghost,
Had only said to me,

'We're all right now, old lad!' when up
A wave rolled-drenched us three;
One lurch, and then I felt the chill
And roar of blinding sea.

"I don't remember much but that:
You see I'm safe and sound;

I have been wrecked four times since then,
Seen queer sights, I'll be bound.

I think folks sleep beneath the deep
As calm as under ground.”

“But Dick and Dolly?"—"Well, poor Dick!

I saw him rise, and cling

Unto the gunwale of the boat,

Floating keel up, and sing

Out loud, 'Where's Doll?' I hear him yet

As clear as anything.

"Where's Dolly?' I no answer made;

For she dropped like a stone

Down through the deep sea, and it closed: The little thing was gone.

'Where's Doll?' three times; then Dick loosed hold

"But where Dick lies, God knows. He'll find

Our Dick at judgment day."

The boatman fell to mending nets,

The boys ran off to play;

And the sun shone, and the waves danced,

In quiet Swanage Bay.

DINAH MARIA MULOCH.

TOPICAL OUTLINE.

INTRODUCTION.-The fisherman's advice to the boys.

DEVELOPMENT I.

We will call this exercise Development. It is, as you will see, largely original composition. The poet has omitted many things that your imagination can supply. For example, you can tell who the little girl was, you can describe her coming to see the king, her disappointment, the looks of the king, how he chanced to see her, etc. It will not be necessary to adhere strictly to the statements of the poem; they may be varied at pleasure. Make a full, connected story the same as in Reproduction. Prefer direct narration to indirect. Be careful to make every part consistent with every other part, and to develop the the parts proportionally.

THE SAD LITTLE LASS.

"Why sit you here, my lass?" said he.
"I came to see the king," said she,-
"To see the king come riding by,
While all the eager people cry,

'God bless the king, and long live he!'
And therefore sit I here," said she.

“Why do you weep, my lass?” said he.
"Because that I am sad," said she.
"For when the king came riding by,
And all the people raised a cry,
I was so small, I could not see.
And therefore do I weep," said she.

"Then weep no more, my lass!" said he.
"And pray, good sir, why not?" said she.
“Lift up your eyes of bonnie blue,
And look and look me through and through.
Nor say the king you could not see.

I am the king, my lass!" said he.

MARGARET JOHNSON, in "St. Nicholas."

CHAPTER II.

TRANSFORMATION OF ELEMENTS.

Exercise 27.- Transform the italicized phrases to words, and the italicized words to phrases or to other word elements. Explain fully every transformation. Examples:

1. The Tower was long a principal residence of the kings.

2. With eyes of thoughtful earnestness.

1. The Tower was long a principal royal residence.

2. With eyes thoughtful and earnest.

NOTE. In all the exercises of this chapter, make whatever other changes the required transformation necessitates.

1. Never even from tropical shores was richer-hued ocean beheld. 2. She began in a very solemn manner. 3. A frame of adamant, a soul of fire. 4. I stood before the entrance to Henry the Eighth's chapel. 5. Great gates of brass richly carved. 6. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, how just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide. √7. The sides of the mountains are covered with trees. 8. He possessed a strong and lively imagination. 9. His style has all the vigor and conciseness of Swift's. 10. Shall Britons languish? 11. Dante, poor and banished, was not a man to concate men. 12. A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war. 13. Plays were originally acted in inn-yards. V1 14. We waited with great anxiety for the dawn. 15. He was a citizen worthy of esteem. 16. The pilot proceeded to the wheel in silence. 17. He clung with still greater passionateness to two theories. 18. The Friars were of necessity thrown into a position antagonistic to the English rule. 19. She clung to it fiercely and tenaciously. 29. The Council met at Trent in no spirit of concil

iation. 21. The English fought desperately. 22. There kings have left a nameless pyramid. †23. God is in all places and at all times present with us. 24. Will you go to that place without delay?

Exercise 28.-Transform the infinitives and participles to any other kind of word or phrase element. Explain every transformation. Examples:

1. The end of writing is to | 1. The end of writing is ininstruct. struction.

2. What cause withholds you

then to mourn for him?

3. Earning is having.

2. What cause withholds you then from mourning for him? 3. To earn is to have.

1. Too much time spent in studies is sloth. 2. I was yesterday much surprised to hear my old friend calling out to John Matthews not to disturb the congregation. √3. The poet Pope was not content to satisfy. 4. It is always a mark of short-sightedness to be impatient of results. 5. Dying is not sport for a man. 6. His whole aim was to encourage disunion. 7. It is not a position to be desired. 8. At this time the weather is liable to change frequently. 9. It shows a greater genius in Shakespeare to have drawn his Caliban than his Hotspur or Julius Cæsar. V 10. Being great is being misunderstood. 11. A greater curse cannot befall the most wicked than to be deprived of his peace. 12. Believing your own thoughts, believing that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,- that is genius.

Exercise 29.-Transform at least one phrase into a dependent clause. Explain the change and decide whether it improves the sentence. Examples:

Read not to contradict and

confute.

2. Having regained the main road, we thought ourselves out of danger.

1. Read not that you may contradict and confute.

2. When we had regained the main road, we thought ourselves out of danger.

REMARK.-Aim constantly at brevity. Of two forms