continue this from twenty to twenty-four consecutive hours; but, on occasion requiring it, it will increase its speed to thirteen or fifteen miles anhour.

QUESTIONS:-1. Why is the camel called "the ship of the desert”? 2. What countries does it inhabit? 3. What is remarkable about its feet? 4. Of what advantage is this to it? 5. What do you remark about its tread? 6. Describe its eyes? 7. How are they protected? 8. What is peculiar about its nostrils? 9. Of what use is this to it? 10. What does it feed upon? 11. How does the nature of its neck and mouth enable it to feed easily on these shrubs? 12. When does it attain its full growth? 13. How long will it live? 14. What is the taste of the flesh of the young camel? 15. What is obtained from the female? 16. What is one of the most striking features of the camel? 17. What burden will a camel carry? 18. What is the usual burden in a caravan journey?

LESSON XLIV.

Grace Darling.-Part I.

anx'-ious-ly, earnestly, with | lan'-tern, the part of the light

much longing.

break'-ers, waves breaking on

the shore.

dis-clos'-ed, showed.

house, where the light is shown.

lull, a calm, a short calm.
man'-age, guide.

drift'-ing, driving on by the ma-te'-ri-al, that of which

storm.

anything is made.

THE morning of the seventh of September, 1838, followed a very stormy night. On shore, signs of the storm were everywhere to be seen; while out at sea the waves ran mountains high. On the most distant of the Farne Islands, which lie off the coast of Northumberland, stands the Longstone Lighthouse, so needed to warn vessels off from that dangerous coast. The lighthouse-keeper,

William Darling, on the night of the sixth, had been up with his wife and daughter, for who could have slept in that fearful storm? Although he knew that the strongest material had been used in building the lighthouse, yet, as the waves dashed over the lanterns, he looked anxiously for the morning.

When the morning dawned, there was no lull in the storm. The waves still broke with great fury over the building. When there was light enough to see out to sea, Grace Darling, the keeper's daughter, took a glass in her hand, and gazing over the boiling waves, saw, a mile away, a portion of a steam-vessel, lying on the rocks, with a number of human beings clinging to it.

The steamer was the Forfarshire, and was on her way from Dundee to Hull, having on board twenty-two cabin and nineteen steerage passengers, besides the crew-in all, sixty-three persons. When the vessel had been at sea a little time, a rent was discovered in her boilers. Owing to the force of the storm, this rent grew so large as to put out the fires, and then it was no longer possible to manage the vessel.

About ten o'clock at night, when the vessel was off St. Abb's Head, the storm was at its height. The engines were useless. An effort was made, by means of the sails, to keep off the land, which proved, however, utterly vain. So long as a vessel can keep out in the open sea, there is some hope

of safety, unless she founder. But when she is allowed to come too near the land, the risk of being lost in a storm is greatly increased. To add to the danger, the night was so dark that the sailors could not tell in what way the vessel was drifting. At length, breakers were heard, and, in a few moments, the ship struck on the rocks, which at that point descend straight down a hundred fathoms. A few minutes only, and the vessel was again raised from the rocks, only again to be dashed upon them with a force that cut her in two. The after-part, with the whole of the passengers, was swept away, leaving the fore-part on the rock. Nine human beings clung to this part, expecting that every wave would wash them away. At length, to their relief, day dawned, and disclosed their dangerous position to the Darlings in the lighthouse.

Northumberland.-The most northerly county in England. Hull.-A large sea-port in Yorkshire, on the Humber. Dundee.-An important sea-port in Forfarshire, at the mouth of the Tay.

St. Abb's Head.-A cape on the north-east of Berwickshire.

QUESTIONS:-1. Where are the Farne Islands? 2. What lighthouse is on them? 3. Who was lighthouse-keeper in 1838? 4. How many people were in the lighthouse? 5. What did Grace Darling discover in the morning of the seventh of September? 6. What vessel was it? 7. How many persons were on board? 8. What accident happened to the boilers? 9. What was the consequence of this? 10. How did they attempt to keep off the land? 11. What sort of a night was it? 12. What became of the passengers? 13. How many were clinging to the fore-part of the vessel?

No one knew better than Grace Darling that, if speedy help was not given to these poor men, there was no hope for them in this world. The returning tide must wash them from their slender

hold of life. She at once resolved to save them or die in the attempt. Her father, who regarded all efforts to reach the vessel in the state of the sea to be certain death, tried in vain to turn her from her purpose. Go she would, and if her father would not go with her, she would go alone. Succeed or perish, she would go.

The attempt did girl determined When at length

The attempt was a most dangerous one. It seemed almost impossible that any boat could live in such a sea, especially when pulled by an aged man and a weak girl. seem madness, but the brave it should be made for all that. the boat was launched on its errand of mercy, who can tell the feelings of the mother as she watched its progress? But in the boat there was no word of fear or of turning back. Those poor wretches, who were now aware of the effort being made for their rescue, must be saved. At last, after very great labour, the wreck was reached, and the nine sufferers, more dead than alive, were enabled to climb into the boat. The return was still more dangerous, as the boat was nearly swamped by the additional load, but it was accomplished safely. The wet clothes of the sailors were exchanged for dry ones; fire and food soon restored their strength, and they could scarcely find words to express their thanks to those who had rescued them from the very jaws of death.

As soon as the news of this brave rescue was