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15. As he was about to bid her farewell his heart smote him at the idea of parting with her forever. "My dear lady," said he, while he kissed her hand tenderly, "I owe you much more than my tongue can tell. You have watched over me in this long and tedious journey; you have lightened my burden, cheered my fatigues, chased away my fears, and given me courage in the place of despondence. Had it not been for you, I had long since lain down and died in the path, or had lingered in misery by the way.

16. "Pray tell me your name; and oh, if it be possible, tell me the art by which you have taught me to conquer difficulties, to rise above doubt, to triumph over indolence, murmuring, and despondence!" The lady replied as follows:

17. "Listen, youth, for I tell you an important secret. My name is Cheerfulness, and all my art lies in a single sentence-Always make the best of it." So saying, the lady departed, and was seen by the youth no more; but he now perceived the force of the lady's words, and practising accordingly, he soon possessed the great art of securing happiness, and of making himself agreeable to others.

LESSON CVI.

PUN'DIT, & learned man among the
Hindoos.

SAN GUINE, (Latin sanguis, blood,)
abounding with blood; warm, ardent.
STANDARD, a flag.

STRICK'EN, struck, wounded.
UN-BIASED, free from any bias or par-
tiality, impartial.

VAN, the front, especially of an army.
WA'RI-LY, carefully, cautiously.

PRONUNCIATION.- Cheer'ful 22, fear'ful 22, po'et 1b, sanʼguine 24, swallow 6.

ALL'S FOR THE BEST.

1. ALL'S for the best, be sanguine and cheerful;
Trouble and sorrow are friends in disguise;
Nothing but folly goes faithless and fearful;
Courage forever is happy and wise.

2. All's for the best, if a man would but know it;
Providence wishes us all to be blest;
This is no dream of the pundit or poet;
Heaven is gracious, and—all's for the best!

3. All's for the best; set this on your standard,
Soldier of sadness, or pilgrim of love,
Who to the shores of despair may have wandered,
A way-wearied swallow or heart-stricken dove.

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4. All's for the best; be a man, but confiding;
Providence tenderly governs
And the frail bark of his creature is guiding,
Wisely and warily, all for the best.

TUPPER.

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PRONUNCIATION. Show'er-y 3b, put 33, them-selves' 1, win'dow 6, chat'ter-ing 36, im-me'di-ate-ly 3c, re-proof' 1, Feb'ru-a-ry 9, mit'ten 4c, shiv'er-ing 36, Phil'a-del-phi-a 7, ve'hi-cle 32c, Can'a-da 7.

SIGNIFICANT ANECDOTES.

1. THE GREAT-COAT.

1. TOM LACKWIT was about to journey from Philadelphia to Canada in a stage-coach. It was the first of November, and a mild Indian summer day. As he was getting into the vehicle, his mother said, "Tom, you had better take your great-coat." "No, mother," said Tom, "I shall not want it." And away he went.

2. For two or three days the weather was pleasant, and the traveler did very well without his great - coat. But at length the skies became black; the winds began to sigh and bellow in the woods; and finally flurries of snow fell like feathers over the hills.

3. At the same time the air grew chill, and Tom, gathering himself into one corner of the coach, his shoulders up to his ears, his heels drawn upward, and his hands between his knees, sat shivering, chattering, and musing upon his great-coat.

4 "What a fool I was," said he, internally, "not to take my mother's advice! However, it is all too late. I must shiver here for a fortnight, night and day, and all because I did not bring a greatcoat!"

2. THE STORMY DAY.

1. Ir was a half-drizzly, half-showery day, such as is apt to put nervous people in a bad humor with themselves and every body else. Job Dodge sat brooding over the fire, immediately after breakfast. His wife addressed him as follows:-"Mr. Dodge, can you not mend the latch of that front door to-day?" "No," was the answer.

2. "Well, can you not mend the handle of the water-pail?" "No." "Well, can you fix a handle to the broom?" "No." “Well, can you not put up some pins for the clothes in our chamber?" "No."

3. "Well, can you not repair that north window, so that the rain and snow will not drive in?" "No, no, no!" answered the husband, sharply.

4. He then took his hat, and was on the point of leaving the house, when his wife, knowing that he was going to the tavern, where he would meet some of his wet-day companions, asked him kindly to stop a moment.

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5. She then got her bonnet and cloak, and said to her husband, "You are going to the tavern; -with your leave, I will go with you." The husband stared. 'Yes," said the wife; "I may as well go as you. If you go, and waste the day, and tipple at the tavern, why should not I do the same?"

6. Job felt the reproof. He shut the door, hung up his hat, got the hammer and nails, and did all his wife had requested; and sat down by his fire at night, a better and a happier man. Gentleness had conquered where angry words would have failed.

3. THE BOY AND HIS MITTENS.

1. I was going round the corner of a church, some time in February. It was the morning of one of those days when the mercury in the thermometer was hovering about the chill point of zero. Streets, side-walks, trees were all sheeted in ice.

2. I chanced to notice a small boy, standing with his back to the basement-wall of the church; his cheeks glistening in the keen wind, the tears flowing down his face, and a kind of blubbering sound issuing from between his chattering teeth. His little red hands were bare, but in one of them he held a pair of mittens. He was the picture of distress and helplessness.

3. I went up to him, and asked him why he was crying. "My fingers are cold," said he. "But why do you not put on your mittens?" said I. "Because my fingers are so cold," said he. "But can not you put them on?" said I. "Oh, yes, I can put them on," said the boy, "but it hurts."

4. "Men are but children of a larger growth," thought I. This boy, rather than bear the slight pain of putting on his mittens, will run the risk of freezing his fingers; in the same way do many men act in regard to matters of the deepest importance. Rather than bear a slight inconvenience, they will expose themselves to the greatest evils.

5. When I see a man spending his time in idleness, with the prospect of certain misery, rather than make a little exertion to be industrious, I think of the boy and his mittens. When I see a man refusing to leave off tippling, because it is hard, I think of the boy and his mittens.

DREAR, dismal, gloomy.

LESSON CVIII.

PER CHANCE', by chance, perhaps.
RIVAL, a competitor, an antagonist.
RUD'DY, of a red color.

SAD, gloomy, cheerless.

SEV'ER, to be parted.

WANE, to be diminished, to decrease, to decline.

PRONUNCIATION -Moun'tain (moun'tin) 1c, shrub 23, and 29, pictured 17 and 18, borrowed 6, heav'en 4d, giv'en 4d, to'ward 266.

THE RIVAL BUBBLES.-AN ALLEGORY.

1. Two bubbles, on a mountain stream,
Began their race one shining morn,
And lightly, by the ruddy beam,

Went dancing down'mid shrub and thorn.

2. The stream was narrow, wild, and lone,
But gayly dashed o'er mound and rock;
And brighter still the bubbles shone,

As if they loved the whirling shock.

3. Each leaf, and flower, and sunny ray
Was pictured on them as they flew,
And o'er their bosom seemed to play
In lovelier forms and colors new.

4. Thus on they went, and side by side

They kept in sad and sunny weather;
And, rough or smooth the flowing tide,
They brightest shone when close together.
5. Nor did they dream that they could sever,
That clouds could rise, or morning wane;
They loved, and thought that love forever
Would bind them in its gentle chain.

6. But soon the mountain slope was o'er,
And mid new scenes the waters flowed;
And the two bubbles now no more

With their first morning beauty glowed.

7. They parted, and the sunny ray

That from each other's love they borrowed,
That made their dancing bosoms gay,

While other bubbles round them sorrowed,

8. That ray was dimmed, and on the wind
A shadow came, as if from heaven;
Yet on they flew, and sought to find
From strife the bliss that love had given.

9. They parted; yet in sight they kept,
And rivals now the friends became ;

And if, perchance, the eddies swept
Them close, they flashed with flame,-
10. And fiercer forward seemed to bound,
With the swift ripple, toward the main;
And all the lesser bubbles round

Each sought to gather in its train.

11. They strove, and, in the eager strife,
Their morning friendship was forgot;
And all the joys that sweeten life,-
The rival bubbles knew them not.

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12. The leaves, the flowers, the grassy
Were all neglected in the chase;
And in their bosoms now no more
These forms of beauty found a place.

13. But all was dim and drear within,

And envy dwelt where love was known,
And images of fear and sin

Were traced where truth and pleasure shone.

14. The clouds grew dark, the tide swelled high,
And gloom was o'er the waters flung;

But, riding on the billows, nigh

Each other now the bubbles swung.

15. Closer and closer still they rushed
In anger o'er the roaring river;
They met, and,'mid the waters crushed,
The rival bubbles burst forever!

LESSON CIX.

VOCAL GYMNASTICS.

REFER TO CAUTION 17.-Among the most difficult words to pronounce with exactness and without affectation are words ending in ture. In practising the following exercises sound this termination full, regardless, for the time, of the sense and the accent. Thus read creature as if spelled creat'yure, and dwell on the last syllable, and even exaggerate the sound, so as to make it tell fully and roundly on the ear. There is no danger that you will not hereafter clip it enough.

(1.) The creature acted according to its nature. (2.) The pasture was full of vultures. (3.) He shows composure in his features. (4.) It was a beautiful lecture. (5.) The hero in the picture is presented in a triumphant posture. (6.) The fields are clothed in verdure. (7.) The critics venture to assail a book with strictures. (8.) Future generations will bless the name of Washington.

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