bad" one; but I do wish you to treat him kindly wherever you meet him, and let your influence and your example be good." a Why a comma? b Why a semicolon? c What is the sound of the vowel ? d Why a period? f What is a quotation? e § 43. 12. g Why an exclamation ? o Why a double consonant? n Sound of a? t Why capital? m What is the sound of h? What were the names of these two boys? Where were they going? What did Robert tell the shopman? What did the man with the newspaper say? What did Sam say to him after they left the shop? Robert's reply? Sam's reply to this? How did Robert feel after this conversation? What did Sam say about his sums? What was Robert's advice to him? What did Sam wish him to do? How did he feel after Robert's refusal ? To whom did Robert relate the affair? What did his father say to him? If a boy should deceive once, would he not be likely to do it again? No. 2. Persuade, circumstances, dishonest, mistake, composition, kindly, continue. No. 3. Tu for two, win-der for win-dow, cre-ture for creat-yure, change for chainge. No. 4. Conduct' and con'duct, refus'e and re'fuse, ob'ject and object'. No. 7. Buy, bye, and by, principle and principal, been and bin, not and knot. No. 10. Analyze the first verse. No. 12. All the words in the last verse. How many different meanings has rest, cross, like, right. LESSON XXXV. ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER. 1. Nor in prosperity's broada lightb The sterling worth, which, viewed aright, Yet, when his harbor he has gain'd, 2. But in adversity's dark hour,b When clouds above the vessel lower, With scarce one star to cheer; When winds are loud and waves are high, Appears the seaman's grave; 3. For Scotland's and for Freedom's right A hut's lone shelter sought. 4. And cheerless was that resting place The rude rough beams alone; 5. The sun rose brightly, and its gleam And tinged with light each shapeless beam From beam to beam of that rude cot;n 6. Six times his gossamery thread In vain the filmy line was sped; Each aim appear'd, and back recoil'd And soon the Bruce with eager eye," 7. One effort more, its seventh and last !n And on the wish'd for beam hung fast Slight as it was, his spirit caught 8. Is it a tale of mere romance ?ao While aught remains untried;" 9. Hast thou been long and often foil'd With patience persevere; Knowing, when darkest seems the night, 10. Art thou a Christiano shall the frown The Bruce but won an earthly crown a Sound of the vowel? b What figure of speech? c§ 17. 1. the reason for these pauses. o What inflections? n Give No. 1. Who was Robert Bruce? Against whom did he fight? What did he fight for? How many times had he been defeated? Where was his resting place? How did he spend the night? What did he see there? What lesson did Bruce learn from him? What instruction may we get from this story? What lesson may a parent and Christian learn from it? No. 2. Skilless, unmoved, immersed, toilsome, successive, adverse, dignify, skillful, confi'de, sustained, glorious, prepare. No. 4. Conflict' and con'flict, presage' and preʼsage, con'duct and conduct', pur'port and purport'. No. 6. Punctuate last verse. No. 7. Tied and tide, meed, Mede, and mead, sign and sine, done and dun, one and won, son and sun, seas and seize. No. 8. § 2. 1. 2. 3. § 3. 2. 15. No. 10. Verse 1st. Mention the different sentences, tell what kind they are, also the subjects, predicates, and objects, with the respective modifiers of each. No. 12. Spell and define the words in the first verse, and all the important words in the lesson. Mention the different meanings of shed, well, long, fast lot, LESSON XXXVI. SINGULAR ADVENTURE OF A BRITISH SOLDIER IN A 1. In the year 1779, when the war with aAmerica was conducted with great spirit, a division of the British army was encamped on the banks of a river, and in a position so favored by nature, that it was difficult for any military art to surprise it. Wara in America was rather a species of hunting than a regular campaign.b “If you fight with art," said Washington, to the soldiers, "you are sure to be defeated. Acquirea discipline enough for concert, and the uniformity of combined attack, and your country will prove the best engineer." 2. So true was this maxim of the American General, that the British soldiers had to contend with little else. The Americans had incorporated the Indians into their ranks, and had made them useful in a species of war, to which their habits of life had peculiarly fitted them. They sallied out of their impenetrable forests and jungles, and, with their arrows and tomahawks, committed daily waste upon the British army, surprising their sentinels, cutting off their stragglers, and even, when the alarm was given, and pursuit commenced, they fled, with a swiftness the speed of cavalry could not overtake, into rocks and fastnesses, whither it was dangerous to follow them. 3. In order to limit, as far as possible, this species of war, in which there was so much loss and so little honor, it was the custom of every regiment to extend its outposts to a great distance beyond the encampments; to station sentinels some miles in the woods, and keep a constant guard round the main body. A regiment of foote was, at this time, stationed upon the confines of a boundlesse savannah. Its particular office was to guard every avenue of approach to the main body; the sentinels, whose posts penetrated into the woods,e were supplied from the ranks, and the service of this regiment was thus more hazardous than that of any other. Its loss was likewise great. The sentinels were perpetually surprised upon their posts by the Indians; and, what was most astonishing, they were borne off their stations without communicating any alarm, or being heard of afterwards. 4. Not a trace was left of the manner in which they had been conveyed away, except that, upon one or two occasions, a few drops of bloode had appeared upon the leaves which covered the ground. Many imputed this unaccountable disappearance to treachery, and suggested as an unanswerable argument, that the men thus surprised might at least have fired their muskets, and communicated the alarm to the contiguous posts. Others, however, who could not be brought to consider it as treachery, were content to receive it as a mystery which time would explain. One morning, the sentinels having been stationed as usual over night, the guard went at sunrise to relieve a post which extended a considerable distance into the |