and privation, without the usual incentives to courage, or its ordinary rewards. 4 In the year 1769, Daniel Boone, a respectable farmer of NorthCarolina, was led, by a restless, migratory spirit, into the forests of Kentucky, then an extensive wilderness inhabited by numberless savage tribes, and as yet unexplored by civilized man. 5. Passing the Alleghany Ridge, whose hideous precipices alone might have repelled a less determined band, guided only by the stars, depending on game for subsistence, and on their own vigilance and powers for protection, Boone, with five adventurous companions, plunged into the boundless waste, and boldly cut the tie which bound them to society. 6. In a country called the "Bloody Ground," from the exterminating character of its conflicts; among savage tribes continually at war with each other, and agreeing in nothing but their deadly enmity to the whites; cut off from society; with scanty means of defence, and no hope of retreat, we scarcely know whether to extol the courage, or censure the rashness, of this gallant little party. 7. They continued in Kentucky until the year 1775, leading a wandering life, employed chiefly in exploring the country, and frequently engaged in conflicts with the Indians. 8. In 1775, Boone erected a fort at a salt lick on the Kentucky River, where the town of Boonsborough now stands, which was called Fort Boonsborough, and to which he removed his family in the same year. 9. "My wife and daughters," says he in his Journal, "were the first white women that ever stood on the banks of the Kentucky River." Here he was joined by five families from North-Carolina, and forty men from Powel's Valley. 10. During the years 1775, 1776, and 1777, Fort Boonsborough was frequently attacked by the Indians, and several severe engagements took place, in which the savages were always repulsed. 11. Boone's settlement began now to exhibit something like a permanent residence of civilized men. The forest was leveled around the fort, fields were enclosed and cultivated, and rural labors were mingled with the business of war and the sports of the chase. 12. The number of settlers was now sufficient, in general, to prevent surprise; and, in case of danger, the fortress offered a secure retreat. 13. Nevertheless, in January, 1778, while Boone was engaged, . with a party of twenty-seven men, in making salt at the Blue Lick, they were surprised and taken by a large body of Indians, who were on their way to attack the fort, and conveyed to Chillicothe, then a considerable Indian town. 14. In the month of March following, Boone was carried, with ten of his men, to Detroit, where the party was well treated by the British Governor, Hamilton, as, indeed, they had hitherto been by the Indians, agreeably to a stipulation made at the time of their capture. 15. The gallant bearing of Boone and his skill in hunting had by this time endeared him to the Indians; so that, although the British officers offered a hundred pounds sterling for him, with the intention of setting him at liberty, his captors would not sell him, nor would they allow him to remain a prisoner with his companions at Detroit, but took him back with them to Chillicothe. 16. "Here," says his Journal, "I was adopted into the family of a chief as his son, according to their custom, and permitted to hunt and spend my time as I pleased. In June following they took me to Scioto Salt Springs, where we continued making salt for ten days. 17. "On our return to Old Chillicothe, I was alarmed to see four hundred and fifty Indians, the choicest of their warriors, painted and armed in a fearful manner, and ready, as I found, to march against Boonsborough. 18. "I now determined to make my escape the first opportunity; there was no time to be lost. On the 16th, before sunrise, I got off in the most secret manner, and on the 20th arrived at Boonsborough, a distance of one hundred and sixty miles, while traveling which I had but one meal." 19. On arriving at his settlement Boone found the people in a critical situation. About four hundred Indians, led by French officers, were approaching; and, though the whites had been re-enforced by troops from Virginia, they were still inferior to the enemy. The Indians at last arrived; but by the skill and courage of Boone they were baffled in their schemes, and at length retired. 20. These brief sketches are interesting from the evidence they afford of the heroic character of a western woodsman of early times. Boone was the chief of these, the very prince of hunters. 21. If many of the heroes of Greece and Rome derived immortal fame from a single act of heroism, how much more does Boone deserve it, whose whole life presents a series of adventures of the same character as those just related! 22. Nor did he suffer and conquer alone; his wife accompanied him to the wilderness, and shared his dangers. During his captivity, under a belief that he had fallen a sacrifice to the ferocity of the savage foe, she returned with her family to her father's house in North-Carolina, braving the toil and perils of a journey through a wilderness of immeasurable extent and gloom. She remained there till after the siege, when Boone escorted her back to Boonsborough, 23. Boone died on the twenty-sixth day of September, 1820, at the age of eighty-six years. LESSON CXXXV. BALM, an odoriferous substance, fra- | SOM BER' dark, gloomy. SOUTH, used in poetry for the south wind. VERD'URE, green, greenness. PRONUNCIATION.-Verdure 17 and 18, perfume 16, dews 16 and 18, gold'en 4d, the 31, a 31. MAY. 1. OH, the merry May has pleasant hours, and dreamily they glide, As if they floated like the leaves upon a silver tide. 2. The trees are full of crimson buds, and the woods are full of birds, And the waters flow to music like a tune with pleasant words. 3. The verdure of the meadow-land is creeping to the hills; 4. The lilac has a load of balm for every wind that stirs, 5. There's perfume upon every wind - music in every tree Dews for the moisture-loving flowers — sweets for the sucking bee. 6. The sick come forth for the healing South; the young are gathering flowers; And life is a tale of poetry, that is told by golden hours. N. P. WILLIS. LESSON CXXXVI. AS-SENT', to acquiesce, to agree to any- | RABBI, a title assumed by the Jewish thing, doctors,or teachers, signifying master or lord. HE BREW, (from Heber, the name of one of the ancestors of Jacob,) belonging | RE-JOIN', to reply to an answer. to the Jews. RE-LIN'QUISH, to abandon, to give up. TRA'JAN, a Roman Emperor. ME-RID'I-AN, noon, the highest point. PRONUNCIATION.-De-mand' 1, o'pen 4d, bade 33, at-tempt' 1, re-join' 1, creat' ure 17 and 18. GOD INVISIBLE TO MAN.-A HEBREW LEGEND. 1. "You teach," said the Emperor Trajan to a famous rabbi, "that your God is everywhere, and boast that he resides among your nation. I should like to see him." 2. "God is indeed everywhere," replied the rabbi; "but He cannot be seen, for no mortal eye can look upon His splendor." 3. The Emperor had the obstinacy of power, and persisted in his demand. 4. "Well," answered the rabbi, "suppose we begin by endeavoring to gaze at one of His embassadors." 5. Trajan assented. The rabbi, leading him into the open airfor it was the noon of the day-bade him raise his eyes to the sun then shining down upon the world in his meridian of glory. 6. The Emperor made the attempt, but relinquished it. "I cannot," he said; "the light dazzles me.” 7. "If, then," rejoined the triumphant rabbi, "thou art unable to endure the light of one of His creatures, how canst thou expect to behold the unclouded glory of the Creator?” ANONYMOUS. LESSON CXXXVII. AM'BER, resembling amber, yellow. CONE, something in the form of a sugarloaf. Buds often have this form. FLUSH, to flow and spread suddenly, to start. GAR'NERED, stored, as in a granary. STEAM'ING, Smoking with vapor. PRONUNCIATION.-Gar'nered 9, del'uge 16, ere 33, de-creas'es 1, heard 33, are 33. Even now upon my senses first 7. The very earth, the steaming air,— And grace and beauty every where 8. Down, down they come - those fruitful stores! 9. And ere the dimples on the stream 10. But yet, behold! abrupt and loud, LESSON CXXXVIII. AD-VANCE-GUARD, a small party in ad- | SPAN, to extend from one side to the vance of the main body of an army. other. MYR 1-ADS, immense numbers. VOL'UME, breadth and depth. SPOKESMAN, one who speaks for others. | ZONE, part of the earth's surface. PRONUNCIATION.-Cap'tain 32e, huʼmored 32e, trav'el-er 3b, ad-ven'tures 17, u'su-al 3e, for'ests 29, mis'chiev-ous 32a, vol'ume 16, hundred 11. THE BRIDGE OF MONKEYS. 1. ONE of the happiest families in the world is that of Captain Winthrop. He has three fine, good-humored, intelligent sons, and two industrious girls, with sweet looks and sweeter tempers. 2. Early in life the father was a great traveler, and encountered strange adventures in remote parts of the world. These it is his custom to relate to his children, when the day's labors are over, the lessons all learned, and father, mother, and children seated in a cheerful circle. 3. One pleasant summer evening all the family were together as usual. The windows and doors were open. The air was stirred by the cool breeze, and myriads of fire-flies on the wing were sparkling and blazing in the happy twilight. 4. "Now for the monkey-story," exclaimed Ella, the youngest of the children, "you promised us a monkey-story this evening, papa." |