5.

One full month she fed

And nurtured it. Then in her mouth she took

The same young kitten, and conveyed it back
To the same house, and laid it in the lap
Of the same good old lady, as she sat

Knitting upon the sofa.

6.

Much surprised,

7.

She raised her spectacles to view the cat,

Who, with a most insinuating tone,

Fawning and rubbing round her slippered foot,
Bespoke her favoring notice.

Aunt Mary told me so.—

This is true

Did Pussy think

Her child too young for service? And when grown
To greater vigor did she mean to show
Full approbation of her mistress' choice,
By passing many a nearer house to find
The lady that its first indentures held?

8. This looks like reason, and they say that brutes
Are only led by instinct. Yet 'tis hard,
Often, to draw the line where one begins,
And where the other ceases.

That kindness to domestic animals

Improves their nature; and 'tis very wrong

To take away their comforts, and be cross
And cruel to them. The kind hearted child

Who makes them humble friends, will surely find
A pleasure in such goodness, and obey

The Book of Wisdom, in its law of love.

MRS. SIGOURNEY.

LESSON XXVI.

BEAUTY OF THE MORNING.

1. Ir was early in a summer morning, when the air was cool, the earth moist, the whole face of the creation fresh and gay, that I lately walked in a beautiful flower garden, and at once regaled the sense and indulged the fancy. The noisy world was scarce awake; business had not quite shaken off his sound sleep, and riot had but just reclined his giddy head.

2. All was serene, all was still. Everything tended to inspire tranquillity of mind, and invite to serious thought; only the watchful lark had left her nest, and was mounting on high to salute the opening day. Elevated in the air, she seemed to call the laborious husbandman to his toil, and all her fellow songsters to their notes.

3. Earliest of birds, said I, companion of the dawn, may I always rise at thy voice! rise to offer the matin song, and adore that beneficent Being, who maketh the outgoing of the morning and evening to rejoice.

4. How charming it is to rove abroad at this sweet hour of prime! to enjoy the calm of nature, to tread the dewy lawns, and taste the unruffled freshness of the air!

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,

With charm of earliest bird.

5. What a pleasure do the sons of sloth lose! Little is the sluggard sensible how delicious an entertainment he foregoes for the poorest of all animal gratifications. Shall man be lost in luxurious ease? Shall man waste those precious hours in idle slumbers, while the vigorous sun is up, and going on his Maker's errand, and all the feathered choir are hymning the Creator, and paying their homage in harmony?

6. No; let him heighten the melody of the tuneful tribes by adding the rational strains of devotion. Let him improve

the fragrant oblations of nature, by mingling with the rising odors the refined breath of praise.

7. It is natural for man to look upward, to throw his first glance upon the objects that are above him.

Straight towards heaven my wandering eyes I turned,
And gaz'd awhile upon the ample sky.

8. Prodigious theatre! where lightnings dart their fire, and thunders utter their voice; where tempests spend their rage, and worlds unnumbered roll at large. "Here hath God set a °tabernacle for the sun."

9. Behold him coming forth from the chambers of the east. See the clouds, like floating curtains, are thrown back at his approach. With what refulgent majesty does he walk abroad! How transcendently bright is his countenance, shedding day and inexhaustible light through the universe!

10. Methinks I discern a thousand admirable properties in the sun. It is certainly the best material emblem of the Creator. There is more of God in its lustre, energy, and usefulness, than in any other visible being. To worship it as a deity was the most excusable of all the heathen idolatries.

HERVEY.

LESSON XXVII.

THE WRECK.

1. ALL night the booming minute gun
Had pealed along the deep,
And mournfully the rising sun
Looked o'er the tide-worn steep.
A bark from India's coral strand,
Before the raging blast,

Had veiled her topsails to the sand,
And bowed her noble mast.

2. The queenly ship! brave hearts had striven, And true ones died with her

We saw her mighty cable °riven,

Like floating gossamer.

We saw her proud flag struck that morn,

A star once o'er the seas

Her anchor gone, her deck uptorn,

And sadder things than these.

3. We saw her treasures cast away-
The rocks with pearls were sown,
And strangely sad, the ruby's ray
Flashed out o'er "fretted stone.

And gold was strewn the wet sands o'er,
Like ashes by a breeze-

And gorgeous robes-but, oh! that shore
Had sadder things than these.

4. We saw the strong man still and low,
A crushed reed thrown aside-

Yet by that rigid lip and brow,
Not without strife he died.

And near him on the sea-weed lay—
Till then we had not wept,

But well our gushing hearts might say,
That there a mother slept!

5. For her pale arms a babe had prest,
With such a wreathing grasp,

Billows had dashed o'er that fond breast,

Yet not undone the clasp.

Her very tresses had been flung

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wrap the fair child's form,

Where still their wet long streamers clung,

All tangled by the storm.

6. And beautiful 'midst that wild scene,
Gleamed up the boy's dead face
Like Slumber's, trustingly serene,
In melancholy grace.

Deep in her bosom lay his head,
With half-shut violet eye—
He had known little of her dread,
Nought of her agony.

7. Oh! human Love, whose yearning heart,
Through all things vainly true,

So stamps upon thy mortal part
Its passionate adieu—

Surely thou hast another lot,

There is some home for thee,

Where thou shalt rest, remembering not

The moaning of the sea!

LESSON XXVIII.

OMRS. HEMANS.

EXERCISE ON RHETORICAL PAUSE.

RULE 4.-Pause before adjectives and adverbs when° INVERTED; and between the parts of a sentence that can be TRANSPOSED. 1. The idea of an almighty Being-eternal, unaccused, forces itself upon the reflecting mind.

2. And, oh! may heaven their simpler lives prevent From Luxury's contagion weak and vile.

3. The man is an artist--undoubtedly; his specimens, I think, fine in the extreme; a child's face, in particular, was beautiful——exceedingly.

4.

The Tartan arrows fell like rain ;

They clanked on ohelm, and mail and °chain;

In blood, in hate, in death were twined,

Savage and Greek-mad, bleeding, blind.