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"His kirtle, made of forest green,
Reached scantly to his knee;

And at his belt, of arrows keen,
A furbished sheaf bore he ;
His buckler scarce in breadth a span,
No longer fence had he;

He never counted him a man

Would strike below the knee,

Well could he hit a fallow deer
Five hundred feet him fro;

With hand more true, and eye more clear
No archer bended bow."

1. Nocturnal wandering musicians.

2. To arch.

3. A large river of Chili.

4. A cord used to fire guns with.

5. A town of Switzerland.

6. The Assyrian Venus.

7. An officer in the army.

8. An ornamental bunch of silk.

9. An obscure question.

10. A military force.

11. A noted explorer in the East.

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XIX.

AN ANCIENT KING.

"WITHIN the walls was raised a lofty mound Where flowers and aromatic shrubs adorned The pensile garden. For Nebassar's queen Fatigued with Babylonia's level plains,

Sighed for her Median home, where Nature's hand

Had scooped the vales, and clothed the moun

tain side

With many a verdant wood."

1. A very inflammable fluid.

2. A wild stag.

3. Robbers.

4. A figure of eleven sides.

5. A rock.

6. A small town of Aberdeenshire.

7. A village of Wirtemberg.

8. A small fish.

9. An important country of Africa. 10. Decay.

11. A celebrated pope in 741.

12. Great ardour.

13. Gay and lively.

14. Jacob's eldest son.

XX.

A HERO, AND ONE OF THE HEROINES OF A

ROMANCE.

"He sleeps," she said. should look upon him, when it may be for the last time? When yet but a short space, and those fair features will be no longer animated by the bold and buoyant spirit which forsakes them not even in sleep! And my father! Oh, my father! evil is it with his daughter, when his grey hairs are not remembered because of the golden locks of youth!"

"Alas! is it a crime that I

1. A deceiver.

2. A staff of office.

3. One of the Nethinims.

4. An ancient gold coin.

5. A fanciful person.
6. A town of France.
7. A river of Spain.

XXI.

"A BALL! a ball! a children's ball!

The gayest of the gay ;

The fears, the cares, the sorrows all,

That after on the spirit fall,

As yet are far away.

"And many loving hearts beat high
With fond maternal pride,

As their own lovely ones float by,
Borne on the sound of minstrelsy,

Like lilies on the tide.

"And ardent are the hopes they frame For the glad girl or boy;

For each a bright undying name,

Green laurels from the wreath of fame Draughts from the cup of joy!"

1. A mathematical scheme.

2. A son of Aaron.

3. A pretty shell-fish.

4. A river of South America.

5. A quack.

XXII.

A POET, AND ONE OF HIS WORKS.

"IN yonder grave a Druid lies,

Where slowly winds the stealing wave, The year's best sweets shall duteous rise, To deck its poet's sylvan grave!

"In yon deep bed of whispering reeds
His airy harp shall now be laid,
That he, whose heart in sorrow bleeds,
May love through life the soothing shade.

"The genial meads, assign'd to bless

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Thy life, shall mourn thy early doom; Their hinds and shepherd girls shall dress, With simple hands thy rural tomb.

Long, long, thy stone and pointed clay
Shall melt the musing Briton's eyes;
'O! vales and wild woods,' shall he say,
'In yonder grave your Druid lies !'"

1. The first Greek astronomer.

2. The Christmas flower.

3. A large lake of European Russia.
4. A fen.

5. The birthplace of Apelles.
6. A village of Northumberland.
7. A common law term.