solitude, and tumbles headlong down the everlasting rocks leaping into the lake, and lost forever.

13. Then your tiny boat floats under an island, whose per pendicular height of solid rock must be hundreds of feet, and which seems falling on you, while you know that the depth of the dark waters beneath your boat, is at least eighty feet

more.

14. Or, if you come up Lake Champlain, and enter the wilderness through Indian pass, your journey is still wilder and wilder, till you reach the magnificent gorge through which the Au Sable' pours its mountain waters, and where the perpendicular rocks are one thousand feet high.

15. Under these everlasting battlements, you may stand and look upward in silent amazement; or you may go to the top, and creep out and look off, shuddering and shivering, and feeling that you have hitherto known what emotion meant only by name!

16. This wilderness is a vast forest. Before the white man came, this, from time immemorial, was the rich huntingground of the Indians. On this ground they sought their food, and furs, and fish, and often met in hostility, waylaying and destroying one another.

17. You can see where their houses once stood, and where the corn waved. The tall pines too, that now sigh over the lonely spot, bear the marks of the Indian boy's tomahawk. The forest is grown over their little graveyard, and the loon raises his indescribably lonely notes, over the hallowed spot.

18. But the red man is about gone from this wilderness. I met with some four or five only, in all my wanderings. The white man next came in to hunt, and still continues to come,

NOTES. -a See Indian, p. 131, note b. b Au Sable (ō-sä'ble); a river rising in the Mohegan mountains in New York, and flowing north-east into Lake Champlain. © Loon; an aquatic bird nearly as large as a goose; the upper parts are black, shaded with green, and the lower parts of a pure white.

but the pioneer settler is on his way, and the race of hunters is doomed to pass away.

QUESTIONS. 1. What is the extent of the wilderness in the state of New York 1. What is the state of New York, and where is it situated? 1. What is Massachusetts, and where is it situated? 2. What is the soil of this wilderness? 2. What is a primitive soil? 2. What is the soil of the flats of the West? 4. What is said of the mountains and lakes of this wilderness? 5. What is said of Lake Cham plain? 6. How long would it take a person to visit all these lakes? 7. How do they compare with the lakes of Scotland? 7. What is Scotland? 9. How does Racket lake compare with Lake George in beauty? 9. What is said of Lake George? 9. What is the St. Lawrence? 9. What is Racket lake? 11. Where is Tupper's lake situated? 14. What is the height of the cataract of the Au Sable ? 14. What is the Au Sable? 17. What is a loon? 18. Do the Indians now inhabit this wilder. ness?

ERRORS.-1. Whur'fore for where'fore; 3. ne'er for ne'er; 4. hem for hymn 5. stawm for storm; 8. geth'er-in for gath'er-ing; 8. frum for from..

Last of a summer race, withered and sear,
And shivering,-wherefore art thou lingering here?
Thy work is done.

2. Thou hast seen all

The summer flowers reposing in their tomb,

And the green leaves that knew thee in their bloom,
Wither and fall!

3. The voice of spring,

Which called thee into being, ne'er again

Will greet thee, nor the gentle summer rain
New verdure bring.

4. The zephyr's breath

No more will wake for thee its melody;
But the lone sighing of the blast shall be
Thy hymn of death.

5. Yet a few days,

A few faint struggles with the autumn storm,
And the strained eye, to catch thy quivering form,
In vain may gaze.

6. Pale autumn leaf!

Thou art an emblem of mortality.

The broken heart, once young and fresh like thee,
Withered by grief,-

7. Whose hopes are fled,

Whose loved ones all have drooped and died away, Still clings to life, and lingering, loves to stay Above the dead!

8. But list,

even now

I hear the gathering of the wintery blast;

It comes,

thy frail form trembles, — it is past! And so art thou!

QUESTIONS. 1. How did the last leaf appear? 6. Of what is it an emblem

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LESSON XLII.

Spell and Define.

5. Vain'est, very proud of little things.
9. Im-per'ti-nent, rude, intrusive.
9. Dis-a-gree'a-ble, unpleasant.

12. Im-agine, to fancy.

20. Ad-mire', to regard with affection. 21. Con-firm'ed, strengthened.

22. Ad-vant'age, benefit.

32. De-feat'ed, prevented the success of. 34. Sym'pa-thy, fellow-feeling.

34. Ex-pres'sion, cast of countenance.

37. Sa-tir'i-cal, belonging to satire.

40. Du-plic'i-ty, double-dealing.

40. Cord-i-al'i-ty, sincerity.

40. Cen-so'ri-ous, addicted to censure.

ERRORS.—3. Wus for worse; 5. un'ly for only; 5. naw'thing for noth'ing, 7. spose for suppose'; 12. ruth'er for rath'er; 13. gra deal for great deal; 42. out'. wud for out'ward; 44. gin'er-ous for gen'er-ous.

DIALOGUE BETWEEN LUCY AND HER MOTHER.
JANE TAYLOR.

1. Lucy. What a good thing it is that people cannot see one's thoughts!

2. Mother. It would sometimes be inconvenient if they could.

3. Lucy. O, worse than inconvenient! To-day, for instance, I would not have had Mrs. and Miss G. know what I was thinking of, for all the world.

4. Mother. Indeed! Pray, may I know what it might be? 5. Lucy. O yes, mother, you may; it was no real harm. I was only thinking what an odd, fat, disagreeable kind of a looking woman Mrs. G. was, and what a tiresome way she had of telling long stories; and that Miss G. was the vainest girl I ever saw. I could see, all the time, she was thinking of nothing but her beauty, and her

6. Mother. Come, come,

quite enough.

7. Lucy. Well, motner, but only do suppose they could have known what I was thinking of.

8. Mother. Well, and what then do you suppose ?

9. Lucy. Why, in the first place, I dare say they would have thought me an impertinent, disagreeable little thing.

10. Mother. I dare say they would.

11. Lucy. So what a good thing it is that people cannot see one's thoughts! is it not?

12. Mother, I rather think it does not make so much difference as you imagine.

13. Lucy. Dear me, I think it must make a great deal of difference.

14. Mother. Did you not say, just now, that Miss G. was a vain girl, and that she thought a great deal of her beauty? 15. Lucy. Yes, and so she does, I am certain.

16. Mother. Pray, my dear, who told you so? 17. Lucy. Nobody; I found it out myself.

18. Mother. But how did you find it out, Lucy?

19. Lucy. Why, mother, I could see it as plain as could be. 20. Mother. So, then, if you could have looked into her heart, and had seen her think to herself, "What a beauty I am! I hope they admire me!" &c., it would have made no alteration in your opinion of her?

21. Lucy. (Laughing.) No, mother; it would only have confirmed me in what I thought before.

22. Mother. Then what advantage was it to her that you could not see her thoughts?

23. Lucy. (Hesitating.) Not much to her, certainly, just then, at least; not to such a vain-looking girl as she is.

24. Mother. What do you suppose gives her that vain look? 25. Lucy. Being so pretty, I suppose.

26. Mother. No, think again; I have seen many faces as pretty as hers that did not look at all vain.

27. Lucy. True, so have 1; then it must be from her thinking so much about her beauty.

28. Mother. Right; if Miss G. has a vain expression in her countenance, or whoever has such an expression, this must be the cause. Now we are come to the conclusion I xpected, and I have proved my point. 29. Lucy. What point, mother?