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where, that she might be able to support her aged mother and her little child; and who, on Sabbath, took her seat in an obscure pew, set apart for paupers, in the kirk!

12. “Fall back, and give her fresh air!" said the old minister of the parish; and the circle of close faces widened around her, lying as in death. "Give me the

bonnie bit bairn into my arms!" cried first one mother, and then another; and it was tenderly handed around the circle of kisses, many of the snooded maidens bathing its face in tears. "There's na a scratch about the puir innocent, for the eagle, you see, maun hae stuck its talons into the lang claes and the shawl. Blin', blin' maun they be, who see not the finger o' God in this thing!"

13. Hannah started up from her swoon, and, looking wildly around, cried: "Oh! the bird! the bird! the eagle! The eagle has carried off my bonnie wee Walter! Is there nane to pursue?" A neighbor put her baby to her breast, and, shutting her eyes and smiting her forehead, the sorely bewildered creature said, in a low voice: "Am I wauken? Oh, tell me if I am wauken! or if a' this be the wark o' a fever, and the delirium o' a dream!”

John Wilson.

FOR PREPARATION.—I. Kirk (church), strath (river valley), na (for not), lang claes (long clothes), blin' (blind), maun (must), nane (none), wauken (waking), wark (work), screes (cliffs). Note these and other Scotch words. II. Heights (hits), psälmş (sāmz), hymn'-ing (him'-).

III. Meaning of "a"" (ll omitted) and "o'" (f) (13) ?

IV. Define, in your own words, reefed, topgallant, bedridden, sympathy, inanimate, heather, ledge, callous, petrified, trellis, tremulous, scaling, accessible, plats, eminence, congratulatory, alternation, paupers, swoon, traversed.

V. Write the substance of this story from memory, after taking notes of the contents of each verse, and then compare, verse by verse, your style with that of the original.

LIV. THE HOT SEASON.

1. The folks that on the first of May Wore winter coats and hose

Began to say, the first of June,

"Good Lord! how hot it grows!
At last two Fahrenheits blew up,

And killed two children small,
And one barometer shot dead
A tutor with its ball!

2. Now all day long the locusts sang
Among the leafless trees;

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Three new hotels warped' inside out;
The pumps could only wheeze;
And ripe old wine, that twenty years
Had cobwebbed o'er in vain,
Came spouting through the rotten corks,
Like Joly's best champagne!

3. The Worcester locomotives did
Their trip in half an hour;
The Lowell cars ran forty miles
Before they checked the power.
Roll brimstone soon became a drug,
And locofocos fell;

All asked for ice, but everywhere
Saltpeter was to sell.

4. Plump men of mornings ordered tights,

But, ere the scorching noons,

Their candle molds had

grown as loose

As Cossack pantaloons!

The dogs ran mad-men could not try

If water they would choose;

A horse fell dead-he only left
Four red-hot, rusty shoes!

5. But soon the people could not bear
The slightest hint of fire;
Allusions to caloric drew
A flood of savage ire;

The leaves on 66 Heat"

were all torn out

From every book at school,

And many blackguards kicked and caned,
Because they said, “Keep cool!"

6. The gaslight companies were mobbed,
The bakers all were shot;
The penny press began to talk
Of lynching Doctor Nott;
And all about the warehouse steps

Were angry men in droves,
Crashing and splintering through the doors

To smash the patent stoves!

7. The abolition men and maids
Were tanned to such a hue,

You scarce could tell them from their friends,

Unless their eyes were blue;

And when I left, society

Had burst its ancient guards,

And Brattle Street and Temple Place

Were interchanging cards!

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Fäh'-ren-heits (thermometers, so named from their inventor). How does a thermometer differ from a barometer? What is each used for indicating? Worcester locomotives did their trip" (of 44 miles to Boston; Boston to Lowell, 26 miles).

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II. Єob'-wěbbed, çham-pagne' (shăm-pan'), lō-eo-mō'-tive, pǎn-taloong', al-lū’-şionş (-zhunz), păt’-ent, ǎb-o-lï'-tion (-lish'un), In-ter-chān'ġing, guärdş (gärdz), ea-lŏr'-ie, Jo'-ly's (zhō'liz), Worces'-ter (wōōs'ter).

III. Explain the use of capital letters wherever they occur in this poem. IV. Tutor, saltpeter, Cossack, patent, lynching, mobbed, abolition, "became a drug" (in the market—no sale for it).

V. Note the order of the ludicrous conceits of this poem: Expansion of quicksilver in thermometer and barometer by heat, so rapid as to cause explosion! Trees leafless from heat. Not boards only, but new buildings, warping "inside out"! Ripe wine-called "ripe" because it has no fermentation-effervesces like champagne (or soda water)! So hot that the force of the steam is increased to an ungovernable degree in the locomotives. Brimstone, saltpeter, locofocos (matches), and fire-producing materials, in no demand, and for sale cheap. Plump men grow thin from perspiration. Dogs run mad for heat. No water to drink. Horse all consumed by heat, except his iron shoes! Scientific treatises on heat (“caloric ") destroyed by people to whom they suggest the cause of their misery; even an exhortation to keep cool resented for the suggestion it contains! Gas makers, bakers, all who use fire or manufacture combustibles-even Dr. Eliphalet Nott, who invented "patent stoves" and heating apparatus--in danger from the excited mob! Finally, all people tanned to a dark hue, and all social distinctions vanish!

LV. HOW TO RENDER SCORNFUL AND SARCASTIC - IDEAS.

This head includes irony, mockery, scoffing, caustic wit and raillery, indirect accusation, insinuation of evil, etc.

"COMPOUND STRESS."-Abrupt stress is sometimes given to the first part of the emphatic vowel (as in command, anger, and energetic statement), and is called “radical” or initial stress. It is sometimes given to the last part of the emphatic vowel (as in impatience, distress, painful anxiety, revenge, defiance, etc.), and is called "vanishing" or final stress.

But sometimes, as in the following class of ideas, these two kinds of abrupt stress come together on the

same emphatic syllables. This occurs in the expression of such ideas only as have the "compound slides"; and then a kind of double emphasis is heard that is, the initial AND final stress together, or, as it is called, the compound stress."

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This " compound abrupt stress" on the " on the "compound slide" is the characteristic vocal element which expresses this scornful spirit. The quantity of the emphatic syllables is often much prolonged, to give ample time for this double stress, and the quality of voice is more or less aspirated, to suit the nature and intensity of the feeling.

EXAMPLE OF SCORN.

"BANISHED from Rome? What's banished", but set

FREE

From daily contact of the things I loathe^?

my

chain.

"Tried and convicted traitor?' Who' says this?
Who'll prove it, at his peril', on my head?
Banished! I thank you for it. It breaks
I held some slack allegiance till this hour;
But now my sword 's my own^. Smile on, my lords;
I SCORN^ to count what feelings', withered hopes',
Strong provocations', bitter, burning WRONGS^,
I have within my heart's hot cells shut up,

To leave you in your lazy dignities^.

But here I stand and scoff you: here I fling
Hatred and full DEFIANCE' in your face.

Your consul's merciful! For this all thanks^!

(From "Catiline," by Croly.)

"That's the THIRD^ umbrella^ gone since Christmas! What were you to do? rain, to be sure. I'm him that could spoil. Take cold? Indeed^ !

Why, let him go home in the certain there was nothing about

He

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