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key, nor let any one of your companions do so; for you are not old enough to manage the boat, nor do I wish you to ever go out in it, unless I am with you."

2. "Yes, father," answered Frank, and his father went awày. After he was gone, Frank had his lessons to get and recite to his mother, after which he was allowed to amuse himself in his own way until night. So he called his dog, and went down to the pond to make him swim.

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3. When he arrived there, he found a boy about his own age, or a little older, who was fishing from the shòre. When Frank saw the boy, he called out to him, in a haughty tone, "Here, you sìr! what are you doing on my father's ground? Take yourself off, pretty quick too, or I will set my dòg on you."

4. The boy looked up kindly, and answered, "If you will be so kind, sir, as to let me catch some fish for my mother, I shall be very much obliged to you; for she is sick." Frank was generally very good-humored, but he had allowed himself to dislike this boy without any cause, and he was not disposed to do him a fàvor.

5. "My father," continued Frank, "does not allow vàgabonds to go wandering over his land and catching his fish ; and so you may just take yourself off, as quick as you can gò. Do you hear?"

6. A quick flush passed over the boy's face, and he was going to make an angry answer; but restraining himself, he gathered up his fish-tackle, and went away without again speaking.

7. Frank now amused himself by throwing a stick into the water, and sending his dog after it; and now running a ràce

QUESTIONS. What is the first word marked with the falling inflection? Why has it the falling inflection? What words in the second verse are marked with the falling inflection? Why? Point out the remaining words in the piece that are marked, and tell why they have the falling inflection. Point out other words that should have the falling inflection, and give the reason why. What moral lesson are you taught in this piece ?

with him; but he did not find so much pleasure as he had anticipated; for he could not help thinking of the boy whom he had treated so unkindly.

8. All at once he thought, "O, how I should like to go and row round among the lilies again, as I did this morning!" and he was half way to the house before he recollected that his father had forbidden his going out alone. He stopped, and turning slowly back, sat down under a great tree, and looked around him to find something by which to amuse himself.

9. Everything was very beautiful; the sky was cloudless and of a clear bright blue; the gentle breeze slightly moved the thick leaves, and cooled the heated brow of the restless bòy; the thick, short grass looked fresh, and soft, and green; the merry crickets were chirping away in all dirèctions; the pond rolled its blue waters at the foot of the hill, and ever and anon a fish would leap up from its bosom, making a slight splash, and leaving the water to circle and dimple for a few moments, before it returned to its former tranquillity.

10. All but the heart of Frank, who lay stretched beneath the tree, was peaceful and quiet. All at once he jumped up, and walked quickly toward the house, saying to himself, "Father will never know it, and there is nothing else for me to do." He crept softly into the house, and taking the key from the nail, ran off again as quickly as possible.

11. He easily unfastened the boat, and pushed it off with one oar, and managed, after a good while, and by dint of very hard work, to reach the place where the lilies grew; but lo! there were none to be seen,-only, when he looked very closely, he could see some little oval, green pods, which he perceived were the lilies, closed up and wrapped in their calyxes.

12. Frank was extremely disappointed, vexed, and surprised; for he did not know that these flowers always close up about noon, and do not open until the next morning. He paddled round for a while, and then turned his boat toward home.

When he was about twenty yards from the land, he saw his dog standing at the edge of the water, and whining.

13. Frank called out to him to come, and the dog came swimming out, and was soon at the side of the boat. Frank tried to help him in, but in stooping over the edge he destroyed the equilibrium of the boat, and over they all went into the water. Frank rose to the top again, and tried to scream, but the water rushed into his mouth and prevented his utterHe sunk under the water with a dizzy sensation, and a feeling that he was about to die.

ance.

14. In a moment, everything he had ever done wrong flashed across his mind with the rapidity of lightning; but in front of them all, stood out his last act of disobedience to his father, and his unkindness to the poor boy. They filled his heart with keen anguish, and he felt that it would be easy to die if his spirit were free from sin. Although these thoughts embraced the wrong actions of his whole life, they lasted but a moment, and then he lost his senses, and sunk to the bottom.

15. When Frank opened his eyes again, he was lying upon his own bed, and surrounded by his father and mother, the physician, and the same pale boy whom he had driven away that afternoon. His mother put her arms around him, and exclaimed, "Now God be thanked, my son, that thou art still alive!"

16. "Why, mother, what is the matter?" asked Frank; for he could not remember anything that had passed. His mother told him that he had tipped the boat over, and just as he was sinking, this poor boy, whose name was John Brown, returned to the spot to look for some fishing-tackle, and seeing what had happened, plunged in and rescued him before it was too late.

17. Upon hearing this, Frank burst into tears, and holding out his hand to John, said: "Oh! can you forgive me for treating you so? How could you risk your own life to save me, who had just driven you away in so unkind a manner?"

18. "My mother always taught me," answered John, "to return good for evil, and to do to others as I would that they should do to me. I did no more than I ought to do for you, or anybody, and do not deserve to be praised for it."

19. This lesson, though severe, proved very useful to Frank. It was very seldom, after this, that he was known to disobey his parents, or speak unkindly to any one not so much blessed as himself in worldly advantages. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill took John Brown and sent him to school, in a town some distance from where his father was known, and he grew up to be a respectable and honest man.

EXERCISE VI.

Circumflex.

The CIRCUMFLEX is the union of the falling and rising inflections on the same syllable or word, producing a slight undulation or wave of the voice.

RULE 6. The circumflex is used in language of irony, sarcasm, condition, contrast, and in all peculiarly significant expressions.

EXAMPLES.

Irony.

1. You meant no hårm; oh no! your thoughts are innocent you have nothing to hide, your breast is pure, stăinless, all truth.

Sarcasm.

1. O, nothing, -a little thing;

A very little thing; I only shoot

At my child.

2. True! True! I did not think of that.

QUESTIONS. What is the circumflex? What is the rule for the circumflex? Read the examples, and point out the words that are marked with the circumflex. Give the reason why they are so marked.

Condition.

1. What though the field be lost,

All is not lost.

2. You must take me for a fool, to think I could do that.

Contrast.

1. What have I done of which you can complain?

2. I am no orator, as Brutus is,

But, as you know me well, a plăin, blunt man.

DISCLOSURES OF A LOOKING-GLASS, A FABLE.

JANE TAYLOR.

1. My new station was no other than the dressing-room of a young lady just come from school. Before I was well fixed in the destined spot, she came to survey me, and with a look of such complacency and good-will as I had not seen for many a day. I was now presently initiated in all the mysteries of the toilet. O, what an endless variety of laces, jewels, silks, and ribbons; pins, combs, cushions and curling-irons ; washes, essences, powders, and patches, were daily spread before me!

2. If I had been heretofore almost tired with the sight of my good old mistress' everlasting lustring, I really felt still more so with this profusion of ornament and preparation. I was, indeed, favored with my fair mistress' constant attentions. They were so unremitting as perfectly to astonish me, after being so long accustomed to comparative neglect.

3. Never did she enter her room, on the most hasty errand, without just vouchsafing me a kind glance; and at leisure hours, I was indulged with much longer visits. Indeed, to confess the truth, I was sometimes quite surprised at their length; but I do not mean to tell tales.

4. During the hour of dressing, when I was more professionally engaged with her, there was, I could perceive, noth

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