the fruit was forbidden, and there were no companionable beasts: in other respects, the little domain answered every purpose of paradise to me.

8. I never had heard my father's or mother's voice once raised in any question with each other, nor seen an angry or even slightly hurt or offended glance in the eyes of either. I had never heard a servant scolded, nor even suddenly, passionately, or in any severe manner blamed. I had never seen a moment's trouble or disorder in any household matter.

9. Next to this quite priceless gift of Peace, I had received the perfect understanding of the natures of Obedience and Faith. I obeyed word, or lifted finger, of father or mother, as a ship her helm. And my practice in Faith was soon complete: nothing was ever promised me that was not given, nothing ever threatened me that was not inflicted, and nothing ever told me that was not true. Peace, Obedience, Faith: these three I esteem the main blessings of my childhood.

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LANGUAGE STUDY.

I. Write the analysis of: accept (capere); picture (pingere); permit (mittere); promise (mittere); sufficient (facere).

Point out adverbs formed by adding the suffix ly to adjectives.

Form adjectives by adding the suffix able to verbs.

II. What kind of sentence is paragraph 7? Point out three adverbial clauses in paragraph 5. Reverentest:" what is the more usual form of the superlative of “reverent”?

III. In paragraph 4 point out an antithesis. (See Definition 5.) Point out a simile (see Definition 2) in paragraph 9.

21. The Jolly Old Pedagogue.

gāit, walk, bearing.

lĭt'i-gāte, go to law.

o'dor-ous, fragrant, sweet smelling. pěd'a-gogue, schoolmaster.

PREPARATORY NOTES.

This tenderly told story of the “Jolly Old Pedagogue" is by George Arnold (1834-1865), a native of New York. Dying at an early age, he had yet given evidence of eminent literary ability both in prose and verse.

1. 'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
Tall and slender, and sallow and dry.
His form was bent, and his gait was slow;
His long, thin hair was as white as snow:
But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye;
And he sang every night, as he went to bed, -
"Let us be happy down here below:
The living should live, though the dead be dead,"
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.

2. He taught his scholars the rule of three,
Writing, and reading, and history too;
He took the little ones up on his knee,
For a kind old heart in his breast had he,
And the wants of the littlest child he knew.
"Learn while you're young," he often said;
"There's much to enjoy, down here below:
Life for the living, and rest for the dead!"
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.

3. With the stupidest boys he was kind and co Speaking only in gentlest tones;

The rod was hardly known in his school:
Whipping, to him, was a barbarous rule,
And too hard work for his poor old bones;
Besides, it was painful, he sometimes said.
"We should make life pleasant, down here belo
The living need charity more than the dead
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.

4. He lived in the house by the hawthorn lane With roses and woodbine over the door. His rooms were quiet and neat and plain; But a spirit of comfort there held reign, And made him forget he was old and poor. "I need so little," he often said; "And my friends and relatives here below Won't litigate over me when I am dead," Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.

6. He sat at his door, one midsummer night,
After the sun had sunk in the west;
And the lingering beams of golden light
Made his kindly old face look warm and bright,
While the odorous night-wind whispered, "Rest!"

I. Write the analysis of: wonderful; painful; pleasant; ba silvery; glorious; happiness; golden; kindly; gently.

II. Analyze this sentence: "Let us be happy down here below III. To what class of composition does this poem belong? Definition 18.) What is the refrain? (See Definition 23.) Whi the most pathetic passage?

an-tiç'i-pāte, meet before the usual | răn'dom, chance, haphazard

seape' grāçe, a graceless fell su-per-fi'çial-ly, on the su only.

tes'ti-ly, fretfully, petulantly.

This amusing sketch is by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), who w native of Boston, but passed most of his life in the South and in York City. He was the author of the weird and peculiar poems, Raven" and "The Bells;" but his chief fame rests on his powerful of the grotesque and the fanciful.

1. "You hard-hearted, obstinate, crusty, musty, f old savage!" said I in fancy, one afternoon, to