rush to the doors, and, in many cases, serious injury is done to the people while pressing through the narrow openings.

QUESTIONS:-1. How are fires generally caused? 2. Mention some of the causes. 3. What do people sometimes do when their dress takes fire? 4. What is the effect of this? 5. What ought they to do? 6. What rule should be observed when a room takes fire? 7. Why should the door, &c., be kept closed? 8. If a fire breaks out in the upper part of a house, what rule should be observed? 9. Why? 10. How may a person escape from a house that is on fire? 11. What danger is there in wooden stairs? 12. If a person has to go through a room that is on fire, how should he go? 13. Why? 14. What is the safest thing to do in a public building, if an alarm of fire is raised? 15. What are fire-escapes?

LESSON XXI.

Ye Gentlemen of England.

ad-ven'-tur-ers, men of dar

ing courage.

dan'-gers, perils.

dis-may'd', frightened.

en'-e-mies, foes.

mar'-i-ners, sailors.

scar, the mark left by a wound.
val'-our, bravery.

YE gentlemen of England,
That live at home at ease,
Ah! little do you think upon
The dangers of the seas.
Give ear unto the mariners,
And they will plainly show
All the cares and the fears
When the stormy winds do blow.
When the stormy winds do blow,
When the stormy winds do blow,
All the cares and the fears

When the stormy winds do blow.

If enemies oppose us
When England is at war
With any foreign nation,

We fear not wound or scar;
Our roaring guns shall teach 'em
Our valour for to know,

While they reel on the keel,

And the stormy winds do blow.

And the stormy winds do blow, &c.

Then courage, all brave mariners,
And never be dismay'd;
Whilst we have bold adventurers,
We ne'er shall want a trade;
Our merchants shall employ us
To fetch them wealth, we know;
Then be bold, work for gold,

When the stormy winds do blow.
When the stormy winds do blow, &c.

MARTYN PARKER (1630).

Bold adventurers.-The date of this famous song explains this expression. It was the era of discovery-the age of Raleigh and other adventurers, who spread the name of England far and wide, and planted many of those colonies, which are to-day great countries.

QUESTIONS:-1. To whom is this song addressed? 2. How is it that the gentlemen of England know so little of the dangers of the seas? 3. Who know these dangers well? 4. How do the sailors act in time of foreign war? 5. Give examples of their bravery in such a case. 6. Why are the guns called "roaring" guns? 7. What lesson will these guns teach our enemies? 8. What causes the vessels to "recl on the keel"? 9. What is meant by an "adventurer"? 10. Give the names of some famous adventurers?

tim'-bers, the wood of which the ship was made.

TOLL for the brave!

The brave that are no more!

All sunk beneath the wave,

Fast by their native shore.

Eight hundred of the brave,
Whose courage well was tried,

Had made the vessel heel,

And laid her on her side.

A land-breeze shook the shrouds,
And she was overset;
Down went the Royal George
With all her crew complete.

Toll for the brave!

Brave Kempenfelt is gone;
His last sea-fight is fought;
His work of glory done.

It was not in the battle;
No tempest gave the shock;
She sprang no fatal leak;

She ran upon no rock.

His sword was in its sheath ;
His finger held the pen,
When Kempenfelt went down,
With twice four hundred men.

Weigh the vessel up,

Once dreaded by our foes!
And mingle with our cup

The tear that England owes.

Her timbers yet are sound,

And she may float again,

Full charged with England's thunder,
And plough the distant main.

But Kempenfelt is gone,

His victories are o'er;

And he and his eight hundred

Shall plough the wave no more.

COWPER.

The Royal George.-A vessel belonging to the royal navy. On the 12th of August, 1782, she capsized and sunk close in shore. The whole crew were lost.

Kempenfelt was the commander of the vessel.
Weigh the vessel up.-The Royal George was raised.

QUESTIONS:-1. When did the Royal George sink? 2. Who was her commander? 3. Why did she sink? 4. How many men were on board? 5. What caused her to capsize? 6. In what way are vessels generally lost? 7. How was Kempenfelt occupied when she went down? 8. What is meant by "weighing the vessel up "? 9. What was "England's thunder"? 10. Of what were vessels built in Cowper's time? 11. What is meant by "ploughing the main"? 12. Distinguish between "main" and "mane."

EVERY part of the world has animals suited to its

soil and its climate. Many animals are found