(3) The Compositor. (4) The Pressman. (5) The Printer's Devil. (6) The Newsboy. (7) "Constant Reader."

8. Notes on the Passengers riding in Car No. at o'clock, on

9. The Railway.—A study of one of the following:(1) The Ticket Agent. (2) The Train-despatcher. (3) The Engineer. (4) The Fireman. (5) The Conductor. (6) The Brakeman. (7) The Flag-man. (8) The Commercial Traveller. (9) The Nervous Passenger.

10. National Types.-(1) Uncle Sam. (2) John Bull. (3) Johnny Canuck. (4) Paddy. (5) Sandy.

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II. Historical Types.—(1) The Jacobite.1 (2) The Puritan.2 (3) The Cavalier.3 (4) The Chartist. (5) The Forty-niner. (6) The Down-easter. (7) The Knickerbocker. (8) The Acadian. (9) The Negro

Slave.

(10) The Immigrant. (11) The Voyageur.

(12) The Jesuit Missionary.

1 See Macaulay's Epitaph of a Jacobite.

2 Green's Short History of England, ch. viii, sec. 1.

3 Scott's Fortunes of Nigel.

Kingsley's Alton Locke.

CHAPTER VIII.-ASSEMBLIES, GAMES,

ETC.1

LESSON LVII.

I. Memorize:-FROM "THE CROWDED STREET."

Let me move slowly through the street,
Filled with an ever-shifting train,

Amid the sound of steps that beat

The murmuring walks like autumn rain.

How fast the flitting figures come!

The mild, the fierce, the stony face;

Some bright with thoughtless smiles, and some
Where secret tears have left their trace

They pass-to toil, to strife, to rest;
To halls in which the feast is spread;
To chambers where the funeral guest
In silence sits beside the dead.

-William Cullen Bryant.

II. Theme:-PERSONAL GROUPS: AT THE TOWN PUMP. Noon, by the north clock! Noon, by the east! High noon, too, by those hot sunbeams which fall, scarcely aslope, upon my head, and almost make the water

1 REFERENCES FOR READING. "A Quaker Meeting," Charles Lamb, Essays. "Spectacles," G. W. Curtis, Prue and I. "The Custom-house in Salem," Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter.

bubble and smoke in the trough under my nose. Truly we public characters have a tough time of it! Summer and winter nobody seeks me in vain; for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest corner, just above the market, stretching out my arms to rich and poor alike; and at night I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I am and keep people out of the gutters.

At this sultry noontide, I am cupbearer to the parched populace, for whose benefits an iron goblet is chained to my waist. Like a dram-seller on the mall, at musterday, I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents, and at the very tiptop of my voice-Here it is, gentlemen! Here is the good liquor! Walk up, walk up, gentlemen, walk up, walk up! Here is the unadulterated ale of father Adam. Walk up, gentlemen, walk up, and help yourselves.

It would be a pity if all this outcry should draw no customers. Here they come. A hot day, gentlemen. Quaff, and away again. Who next? Oh, my little friend, you are let loose from school, and come hither to scrub your blooming face, and drown the memory of certain taps of the ferule, and other school-boy troubles, in a draught from the Town Pump. Take it, pure as the current of your young life. Take it, and may your heart and tongue never be scorched with a fiercer thirst than now. This thirsty dog, with his red tongue lolling out, does not scorn my hospitality, but stands on his hind legs, and laps eagerly out of the trough. See how lightly he capers away again!

One o'clock. Nay then, if the dinner-bell begins to speak, I may as well hold my peace. Here comes a

pretty young girl of my acquaintance, with a large stone pitcher for me to fill. May she draw a husband while drawing her water, as Rachel did of old. Hold out your vessel, my dear! There it is full to the brim; so now run home, peeping at your sweet image in the pitcher as you go; and forget not, in a glass of my own liquor, to drink-"Success to the Town Pump." -Nathaniel Hawthorne. Abridged from "Twice Told

Tales."

III. Principles-Description. The theme here treated is the various people who come to the Town Pump. The method of description is fresh and interesting. By attributing personality to the Pump, and writing the description as if it were observations of the central object, the author secures a unity of treatment and an element of personal interest that enhances the value of the descriptions. Note that the author chooses a significant moment for the Pump's meditation. Point out the elements that give the quality of humor to this extract.

Composition.-1. Following the plan and method in the preceding description, write one of the following:(1) Remarks from the Town Clock. (2) Reflections of a Mirror. (3) A Book's Opinions of Its Readers. (4) A Piano's Memories of Its Players. (5) A Horse's Opinions of Mankind.

2. Parties of Pleasure.-Describe with special reference to the persons present, one of the following:(1) A Picnic Party. (2) A Christmas Party. (3) A Dinner Party. (4) Afternoon Tea. (5) A Ball. (6) Our Camping Party. (7) A Church Social. (8) At the Skating-rink. (9) A Street-car.

3. Assemblies.-Describe one of the following, as if you were writing a newspaper report:-(1) The Concert. (2) A Public Meeting.

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(3) A Meeting of Club. (4) Visitors in Town. (5) The

Trial (a court-room scene).

Determine the detail that is of chief interest and give it prominence. Seize on the leading characteristic and make all details illustrate the dominant idea.

4. Street Scenes in the City.-Describe one of the following, having regard chiefly to the persons concerned: (1) The People We Pass in the Street. (2) Going to Work. (3) Street Workmen-Digging a Sewer, Making a Road. (4) Filling the Wateringcart. (5) An Accident. (6) A Runaway. (7) The Passing of the Fire-engine. (8) A Fire. (9) A Riot. (10) Election Returns. (11) Departure of the Soldiers. (12) News of the Victory. (13) The Soldiers' Return. (14) School is Out.

Door.

(15) Six o'clock, at a Factory